Peter Cox’s Blog

All the current Valleywag trash talk about Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales, 41, who dumped his girlfriend with an announcement on the encyclopaedia’s website (girlfriend then sells Wales’ laundry on E-Bay… how very Web 2.0) misses the more important point.
There is serious talk in certain quarters concerning the possible private sale of Wikipedia.  Impossible?  With a [...]

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The Friday Project, darling of trade rag The Bookseller, has sadly come to grief. Today’s Telegraph reveals that an administrator was appointed on the 25th February (why didn’t The Bookseller tell us this?) and reports that HarperCollins are close to buying the publishing rights to The Friday Project’s book titles.
I first looked at TFP’s [...]

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