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Trivial Posts #7: Omnishambles, Mobile Search, And Freemium Snooze Buttons

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There are some weeks I find a lot during the week to put on the blog, others where it is either a bit quieter, or my attention is focused on deadlines or other projects. It was the latter this week, but I’ve still been squirreling away links and articles that have made me think. And as Monday kicks off, you can enjoy them as well in my  weekly collection of interesting posts, ideas, video clips, essays, images, and anything else that catches my eye online. Don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you always get your Trivial Posts every Monday. Trust The

Russell Brand, Comic Relief, and abstinence-based drug and alcohol recovery programs

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It is ten years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has immeasurably improved. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook. But the price of this is constant vigilance, because the disease of addiction is not rational. Recently, for the purposes of a documentary on this subject, I reviewed some footage of myself smoking heroin. I sit wasted and slumped with an unacceptable haircut against a wall in another Hackney flat (Hackney is starting to seem like part of the problem), inhaling fizzy black snakes of smack off a

Tonight Will See Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross overtake Robert Scoble.

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It’s going to be a big night for Twitter here in the UK, and it’s all the fault of Andrew Sachs and the Daily Mail Three months ago, broadcasters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross called his answering machine, left a message, and the Daily Mail manufactured outrage over the incident. Brand left the country for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 while Jonathan Ross went and hid in a bunker for his suspension from the Big Brother Corporation (*). And what a jolly few weeks that has been. Because he found Web 2.0 Specifically he found Twitter, everyone knew it was