Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, which was launched last November, appears to be undergoing what might be called a soft relaunch with the help of the Guardian. Apparently, nobody likes the expensive, horrible-looking gadget but it’s rated as Bloody Great by, er, Amazon.
According to the paper’s report from the US BookExpo trade fair, Amazon CEO Jeffrey [...]

Happy New Year to all 14 of my unique visitors! The beginning of 2008 is a chance to reflect on the fact that in the six months that I’ve been writing this blog, virtually no-one has read it.
Despite my transparent attempts to build traffic by baiting Andrew Gilligan (which did, at least, result in a [...]

Yes, you read it right. A character in a fictional children’s story has been outed as gay by the author of said book. For those of us who don’t know what gay is, the Observer helpfully suggests who it thinks are the three most heterosexual men in the world in order to help us visualise.
There [...]