News: January 2007 Archives
Web 2.0 meaning?
Web 2.0 was a phrase coined in 2004 by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, a publishing and conference firm, to describe second generation internet services The phrase has made the authors a lot of coin too through......more
Breaking China
A few weeks before moving to Beijing I bumped into Frontline colleague Fergal Keane."China will be fascinating" he said, "but your problem will be to turn history into the news." His words have echoed around my head throughout my first......more
In memoriam: Juliet Crawley Peck (1961 - 2007)
Juliet Crawley Peck was beautiful, refreshing, inspiring, and exasperating in turns, a force of nature cast from some empire-building mould left over from another age. She faced with brisk equanimity the shooting of both of her husbands, the loss of......more
View from a Grain of Sand
The road to Kabul is littered with the carcasses of war - Soviet army tanks left rusting in the arid landscape, overturned buses without wheels that will never complete their journeys and the gaping wounds of bullet-ridden buildings. This is......more