Bobbie Johnson
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Bobbie Johnson is a freelance journalist who writes about technology and culture. He was previously the Guardian's technology correspondent in London and San Francisco.
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Happy Valentine’s, Google — see you in court
Payam Tamiz may not be a name very well known in Silicon Valley, or indeed much beyond his small hometown of Margate, a dilapidated coastal resort not far from London. But the wannabe politician has discovered a way to get the giants of the internet to sit up and take notice.
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Are times getting desperate for Lovefilm?
A friend of mine had an encounter that surprised him, and me, the other day: a knock on the door turned out to be a salesman trying to get him to re-sign to Lovefilm, the subscription video service.
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Music site This Is My Jam could spin out from Echo Nest
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Britain’s press inquiry is a deathbed confession, not a solution
After months of hearings and endless testimony, Britain’s Leveson inquiry into the ethics and behavior of the press dumped its thoughts out into public for the first time this week. Originally sparked by the revelations of phone hacking at News Corp’s British print outlets, it ended up a broad and outsized affair with nearly 2,000 pages of text in just this first installment alone, stuffed with evidence, detail and recommendations on how to make the press better.
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Why journalists love Reddit for its brains, not just its beauty
It’s fair to say that Reddit is having a moment right now. In the wake of President Obama’s decision to make the site part of the campaign trail by doing an “Ask Me Anything” Q&A last month, more and more people are seeing the site for the first time.
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Wait a minute, are “sock puppets” really that bad for the book business?
The outing of best-selling authors Stephen Leather and RJ Ellory for their use of sock puppets to boost their own reviews on Amazon has generated a storm of controversy, personal apologies — and even organized protests from writers who hate the idea that somebody would unfairly boost their own rankings.
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French copyright police warn government over cutbacks
When France elected new President Francois Hollande in May, a lot of local technologists wondered one thing: what would he do about Hadopi, the controversial “three strikes” copyright regime brought in by his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy?.
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Meet the man wants to satirize Silicon Valley
You know things are bubbling over in Silicon Valley when the TV cameras arrive — and now they’re turning out in force. First there was a “reality” show from Bravo; then a CNBC documentary about billionaire investor, Stanford grad and teacher Peter Thiel’s program encouraging people to drop out of college; now there’s a satire.
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Prince Harry’s brush with radical transparency: you can’t stop the web
On the internet, just like everywhere else, time only moves in one direction: forward. But that doesn’t stop people trying to turn the clock back.
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Former Lovefilm boss: Netflix could have stormed Europe years ago
Who’d be Reed Hastings right now? The embattled Netflix boss has spent the last year watching his business take a hiding: careening from one disaster to another and watching the company’s stock price plummet by more than 75 percent in the past year.
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