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Blogged on 14 July 2009

Morgan Stanley, the global financial services people, have released a report on ‘How Teenagers Consume Media’. Cue fusty attempt by middle-aged guys in suits to get wit da yout, but no: this one’s written by a genuine teenager. continue

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‘Their world was perfect. Their future promising.’ You know this kind of voiceover isn’t going anywhere good. continue

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Put away that credit card. It’s easy to convince yourself that you need a new 24-inch aluminium iMac to keep up with the blistering pace of your own creativity, but you really don’t. A man in Italy, it says here on Reuters, has just written a novel on his mobile phone. continue

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Google’s acquisition of YouTube for $1.65bn – admittedly in stock, or ‘pretend money’ as we laypeople like to call it – obviously echoes eBay’s even more ludicrously priced acquisition of Skype. Which in turn seemed like a repeat of AOL/Time Warner. You know, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Except that instead of an Internet company swapping its fake value for the real value of a real company, now Google is swapping a share of its fake value for YouTube’s fake value. continue

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