The Register are running an extract today from Paul Carr's book, Bringing Nothing To The Party, or, as Paul subtitles it, "Confessions Of A New Media Whore". Paul's an odd chap; I've encountered him a number of times, professionally and personally, and I've been told many stories about him, both professional and personal. And I honestly don't know what to make of him; I'm not sure if he's a passionate ideas-man with a misguided approach to business, or, well, a new media whore.
And I'm not sure what to make of the book, either, not least because it seems to lapse into soliloquys for a former girlfriend more often than strictly necessary. But this extract is great: a tale of how a spoof website he put together in the wake of the News Of The World paedophilia controversy caused the Obscene Publications Unit to order it to be shut down.
I'm always astounded at the inability some people have to tell fact from fiction when it's presented to them on a computer screen – but the fact that a government body felt obliged to somehow protect those people from their own stupidity is, well, even more astounding.
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Posted by: Universityking | Sunday, 06 December 2009 at 06:46 AM