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Speaking requests: Please send requests to editorial [at] wired.co.ukRecent speaking engagements, including keynotes:Data Protection: Improving Public Data Privacy conference (chair) (London, Dec 2009);Future of Digital conference (keynote) (Bristol, Dec 2009);Eurobest European Advertising Festival (Amsterdam, Nov 2009);Luxury Briefing Conference (keynote) (London, Nov 2009);The UK government's

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By David RowanNow some good news. From gaming to graphic design, iPhone app programming to interactive advertising, Britain is undergoing an extraordinary blossoming of talent-led innovation. In film and fashion, product design and public art, international taste-makers are proclaiming Britannia cool again.Maybe it’s because so many of our new stars express themselves digitally that our analog

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Wired UK launched in April 2009. We welcome your contributions. Publicists who want to be in touch, please use only this address: pr [AT] wired.co.uk - and please don't phone.Journalists who have features to pitch, please email editorial [AT] wired.co.uk for our editorial guidelines. And prospective interns who want to know about our competitive internship programme, please email interns [AT]

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By David RowanSky News may have hired a Twitter correspondent, and Reuters a short-lived Second Life reporter, but here is The Times's even more pulse-fingering dispatch from the digital frontier. The mood, we can report, is death-watch snarky: in the fickle realm of online chatter, yesterday's achingly fashionable meeting points are rapidly acquiring the funerary aura of Icelandic bank

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The company that launched a nifty search engine has become an unregulated keeper of our details, says the editor of UK Wired magazine. By David RowanGoogle's new Street View service - which displays 360-degree photographs of streetscapes in 25 British towns - has made it a challenge getting pages proof-read in the Wired offices this week. First, we spot the magazine's associate editor in a skirt

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By David RowanNo social justice issue mobilises columnists more unflinchingly than their right to a prominent, contractually guaranteed byline photograph. Not me. Unlike fellow commentators whose idealised physiognomic representations remain deferentially untouched by comment editors for decades at a time, I abhor the mugshot perching smirkingly above this paragraph. Not a question of false

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This was on MediaGuardian.co.uk today. The magazine does not launch until 2009, but talented journalists with a passion for Wired are welcome to register their interest as contributors c/o web [AT] davidrowan [DOT] com.Stephen Brook, Press Correspondentguardian.co.uk, Monday June 30, 2008Conde Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has hired the

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By David RowanIt is 7pm in the body-imaging unit at Ulm University Hospital, southern Germany, and with the day's last patients returning to their wards, Dr Henrik Walter finally has the clinic's vast MRI scanner to himself. The angiograms pinned to the observation-room wall, their snaking arteries a humbling portrait of human vulnerability, are an awesome tribute to the life-saving wonders of

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Still worried about 'E' numbers? Do try to keep up. How about sliced bread that lasts for months? Or steak and chips rustled up from the submolecular constituents of nothing more than fresh air? As David Rowan reports, food technologists are dreaming up ever new ways of feeding us - and the future is any colour you want Think of Thomas Hefti the next time you sip a soft drink. As a senior

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Cellphone cinema (The Times Magazine, December 2 2006) The new corporate names (The Times Magazine, September 30 2006) DNA hacking (The Times Magazine, September 16 2006) Crowdsourcing (The Times Magazine, June 24 2006) Consumer-created ads (The Times Magazine, April 15 2006) Very light jets (The Times Magazine, January 7 2006) Porncasting (The Times Magazine, November 5 2005) The

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Its celebrity followers claim the ultra-fashionable Kabbalah Centre has brought them serenity and fulfilment. But others are coming forward to accuse the organisation of emotional manipulation and financial pressure. DAVID ROWAN investigates It was the rabbi's sudden demand for £65,000 to "cleanse" her late parents' souls that finally drove Susie to speak out. She had already faced moments of

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Move over, Barbie: there are some hot new kids on the block. David Rowan visits Bratz HQ to discover how these ethnically ambiguous, fashion-crazy dolls are winning our tweenagers' hearts and minds Richard Landry designs high-end celebrity homes for the likes of Eddie Murphy and Rod Stewart. But today he appears to be winning over that infinitely more fickle customer: a streetwise eight-year-old

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It offers everything - including the dream of success and financial independence. More than 10,000 of us make a living from it. Millions more are simply obsessed by it. But is the global phenomenon of eBay spinning out of control? By David RowanFossils are Trevor George's life. His semi-rural 17th-century cottage in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, is packed with them: 2ft-tall local ammonites,

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By David RowanIn the summer of 2004, the media was obsessed with one sensational story: a three-year-old girl who had apparently died from being overweight. The news, leaked to Radio 4's Today programme, came from a report on childhood obesity that was expected to kickstart the Government into action.When the House of Commons Health Committee published its Obesity Report on May 27 last year, its

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By David Rowan The first time Eric Bolling traded natural gas, he lost $120,000 of his own money in a single afternoon. It was 10 times the risk he thought he had been carrying, a misjudgment that threatened him with all the pernicious self-doubt he had seen destroy fellow traders' careers. Yet rather than wallow on the downside, Bolling left the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) that evening

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By David RowanLouise Wright set one non-negotiable condition in choosing a man: he must accept her horse as part of the relationship. The 29-year-old blonde from Bristol has been riding since she was six, and with Tigs, her black Irish gelding, competes enthusiastically at weekend showjumping trials when not mucking out at the stables. Non-horsey boyfriends have generally been dismissive if not

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The Times: Anyone out there willing to challenge Google? (The Times, May 6 2008) The Times: Log on and discover the generation gap (The Times, July 31 2007) The Times: Have you got Google under your skin? (The Times, May 26 2007) 'Lost', a BBC internet drama (The Times, June 3 2006) I'm not nuts: they really are out to get you (The Times, January 24 2006) To survive, newspapers will have

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Reported or produced the following "special reports" for Channel 4 News and More 4 News: November 11 2005: More 4 News: The video iPod's dirty secretFour-minute authored film report for More 4 News on plans by the aduIt-entertainment business to profit from repackaging their content for the video iPod - and the lack of agreed standard to protect children. Watch the film (Windows Media)(Reporter)

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A funky new boardgame is doing the geek rounds - you can easily find it by Googling. It is called Googolopoly, and, just as with traditional Monopoly, you move round the board in single-minded pursuit of global domination. Land on the Yahoo! or Microsoft squares, for instance, and for just 350 Google shares, each is yours to entrap any subsequent visitors; but find yourself on “Income Tax”, and

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By David RowanSir Ronald Cohen made millions in private equity. Now he wants to use his knowledge and wealth to solve a few little problemsLet's say you sit on the Sunday Times Rich List at £260 million, are married to an accomplished movie producer, and have yourself attained such business success that you are lauded as an entire industry's "founding father". When the time comes finally to

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By David RowanHave you poked a friend today? Your answer will determine your loyalties in the greatest intergenerational split since the Sex Pistols gobbed at Bill Grundy on live TV. Friend-poking, along with superpoking, wall-posting and hikkuping – as the clued-in among you could yawningly explain – is simply an internet-enabled social greeting. The rest of us – especially, duh, the dinosaurs

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By David RowanWelcome to Googletown, where, as you sip your skinny decaf, a cup-embedded chip instantaneously analyses your salivary DNA, allowing cafe staff to greet you personally as their screens retrieve your online profile. Stroll down the street, and an eye-scanning digital billboard reminds you to buy a birthday present for your mother, helpfully suggesting the perfume brand she e-mailed a

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David Cameron gives his first major interview in a Jewish publication to JC editor David RowanDavid Cameron, he would like it known, is an enthusiastic friend of the Jewish people. "I have great admiration and respect for what the community's achieved," he begins in the back seat of his official Opposition car - the "greener" hybrid petrol-electric Lexus that he requested, albeit with no bicycle

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By David RowanCan it already be Trendsurfing's third end-of-year review? That gives us a rare opportunity to step back from the avalanche of buzz and innovations and work out which of the past twelve months' trends are likely to have staying power. So here are a few predictions of themes that we will be hearing much more about in the months to come.Wise up to crowd power: If you need a job done,

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A Jewish money-man is pushed into the traditional scapegoat role. How convenient. By David RowanAugustus Melmotte would have recognised the cold, searing blade of sudden ostracism. Until his inevitable downfall, Melmotte, the anti-hero of Trollope's "The Way We Live Now", had bought himself an outsider's ticket to the heart of the British establishment: holding court at his ostentatious Pickering

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