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Closing Net Falls on November 9: Don’t Miss the Last Salon of 2011

The groundbreaking Future Human salon series continues with ‘Closing Net’, where we’ll be exploring the myriad ways  governments and corporations use the Internet as a…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events | October 18, 2011 5:51PM | No Comments »


Chris Anderson and the Future of a Radical Price

Chris Anderson and the Radical Future of ‘Free’

Chris Anderson’s eyebrows are perhaps his most dominant feature; dark, smudgy lines that cut across a fleshy, bald apricot of a head. For the staff…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Tomorrow People | December 7, 2009 12:57PM | 3 Comments »


The New Bad Idea Website

Welcome to the new incarnation of Bad Idea online – here are some of the exciting new features you’ll find on our refreshed website:

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Other | December 1, 2009 6:04PM | No Comments »


TONIGHT! The Butcher’s Shop, Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin – RECESSION SPECIAL!

Prepare your prose for the taste of cold editorial steel: The Butcher’s Shop, BAD IDEA’s unique writing workshop is BACK TONIGHT for a…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events | February 26, 2009 2:43PM | No Comments »


BAD IDEA presents Printomortis – Episode Four

Here’s the fourth and final episode of PRINTOMORTIS, our drama micro-series following life at an independent magazine in the dying days of print. 

For…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in AV | February 23, 2009 2:39PM | 1 Comment »


The Butcher’s Shop, Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin

Prepare your prose for the taste of cold editorial steel: The Butcher’s Shop, BAD IDEA’s unique writing workshop, returns on Thursday February 26…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in AV, Events | February 19, 2009 1:47PM | 2 Comments »


BAD IDEA presents PRINTOMORTIS, Episode Three

Here’s episode three of PRINTOMORTIS, our drama micro-series following life at an independent magazine in the dying days of print. 

If you missed…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in AV | February 3, 2009 2:58PM | 1 Comment »


The Butcher’s Shop is Back! Wednesday, January 28

BAD IDEA’s monthly writing workshop returns on Wednesday, January 28.
 
“Think Gunther von Hagens for the literary elite,” said KultureFlash. ”You can expect

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Events | January 24, 2009 11:31AM | 1 Comment »


DMGT Has Last Laugh, as Murdoch’s Londonpaper Crows at the Lebedev-Evening Standard Takeover

Welcome to the world of London newspapers Mr. Lebedev!

Yesterday Paul Dacre confirmed to his staff that ex-KGB man turned plutocrat Alexander

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 23, 2009 2:27PM | 4 Comments »


Nokia Taps into Crowdsourcing Start-up to Employ Developing World’s Poor via Mobile Phone

Kate Greene of MIT Technology Review reports today on txteagle, an American start-up founded by Nathan Eagle, a research fellow

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Hot Money | January 21, 2009 2:52PM | 3 Comments »


Are Russian Billionaires Like Alexander Lebedev Print Media’s Only Hope?

Alexander Lebedev, the hippest oligarch in town, is closing in on the Evening Standard, and possibly the Independent as well, according to

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 16, 2009 5:19PM | 1 Comment »


BAD IDEA presents PRINTOMORTIS, Episode Two

Ok, so here’s episode two of PRINTOMORTIS, our non-reality (i.e. fictional) TV mini-series following life at an independent magazine in the dying days…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in AV | January 14, 2009 2:21PM | 2 Comments »