So the Sun says Becks may be dropped from the England line up (announced at 3:30pm) in part due to his spot in Brazil. Well, for my part, maybe there’s a good side to that. Firstly, Capello sends out a tough love message to the England team, and Becks gets to do somethign for [...]
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Beckham in Brazil
David Beckham marks the announcement of his plans for a new academy near the resort city of Natal with a display of fancy footwork on a Brazilian beach. Hmm, wonder what Kaka thinks of this? Surely it’s about time he opened his own acaemdy in Taguatina.
Embarrasing posts?
The risk of embarrasing posts, explained in Forbes video interview at Davos by Google’s Sergey Brin.
TechCrunch UK & Ireland
TechCrunch UK & Ireland is a news blog covering Web 2.0 and Mobile start-ups. It also contributes to TechCrunch US, with 600,000 readers globally. The site is edited by Mike Butcher, a former editor of New Media Age magazine, The Industry Standard Europe and contributor to The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Irish Times. [...]
Huddle on Facebook
“HUDDLE, based in London, offers the standard set of features that one sees in online project management software, such as task lists for groups, ways of assigning responsibilities to people, etc.
“It is most interesting because it is both a free-standing site and a Facebook application. The latter shows you a task list, where you [...]
Comedians Bird & Fortune on the market crash
Best bit after 2:50. Thanks to Valleywag.
MLK Day 2008
In our special broadcast from Memphis, we speak with former sanitation worker and union leader Taylor Rogers and community organizers in Memphis who led a local black power group called the Invaders. Charles Cabbage and Coby Smith were working with Dr. King to organize the march in Memphis in support of the sanitation workers..
The power of blogging
Guido blogger brings down Peter Hain, apparently. And the Daily Telegraph agrees.
“Summits”
Christ’s Fellow Professor David Reynolds and alumnus Russell Barnes (m. 1987) have teamed up again to make a series of films entitled “Summits”. Ranging from Chamberlain and Hitler to Reagan and Gorbachev, this three-part series will air on BBC4 on Wednesdays at 9pm, starting on Wednesday 30 January, with repeats probably on Thursdays and [...]
Simple guide to RSS — it’s good btw
The guys at CommonCraft made this video for their friends (and yours) who haven’t yet felt the power of the RSS reader. It’s a 3.5 minute introduction to RSS in Plain English. (thanks to David).