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Category Archives: Networking

Towards the Eternal Conversation

30-Jan-09

Well, if 2008 was the Year of Facebook, it looks like 2009, judging by what everyone’s been talking about during the first few weeks, will become the Year of Twitter. As much as I like new technology, however, there are certain limits to what I consider to be the sort of useful applications which actually [...]

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Knight of the Order of the Thistle

19-Sep-07

I’ve been thinking about establishment. Partly it’s because, in my new job as a journalist on EU affairs, I’ve been in contact with several MEPs and commissioners and this morning I was taking pictures of the president of the European parliament for a feature on, yep, you’ve guessed it, electric bikes.
What also prompted these thoughts [...]

Also filed in Awards, Bikes, EU, Establisment, Europe, European parliament, Fellowship, Honours, Journalism, MEP, Membership, Obscure, People, Post-nominal letters, Questions, Recognition, Society, The Guardian, Thoughts, Tradition, Wine, champagne, reality, social status | | Comments (1) »