tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:31:07 +0000Feature articles, columns and interviews published in The (UK) Times, Sunday Times, Observer and Evening Standardhttp://www.davidrowan.com/noreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)Blogger654125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-1353492045398328999Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:19:00 +00002008-06-30T23:28:28.347+01:00This 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 Correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday June 30, 2008 Conde Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/wired-uk-to-launch-in-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-1900275603327327497Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:41:00 +00002008-06-29T21:36:37.233+01:00By 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/neuromarketing-search-for-brains-buy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-7695007579477084403Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:58:00 +00002008-06-29T21:37:15.486+01:00Still 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/observer-how-technology-is-changing-our.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-2155092580615477856Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:53:00 +00002008-06-29T21:00:44.590+01:00 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/trendsurfing-columns-from-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-53038182879551459Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:51:00 +00002008-06-29T20:52:53.039+01:00Its 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/times-strings-attached-kabbalah-centre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-809956930633328197Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:49:00 +00002008-06-29T20:51:04.515+01:00Move 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/times-magazine-how-bratz-beat-barbie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-1136805357816388462Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:47:00 +00002008-06-29T20:48:45.618+01:00It 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, http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/sunday-times-magazine-inside-ebay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-8629679944432399728Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:46:00 +00002008-06-29T20:46:36.373+01:00By 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/times-how-food-industry-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-590513421256554055Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:44:00 +00002008-06-29T20:45:00.032+01:00By 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/fuel-economy-hanging-out-with-nymex.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-7264656477081253267Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:42:00 +00002008-06-29T20:44:04.895+01:00By 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/sunday-times-magazine-downloading-mr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-3142781655445277824Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:00 +00002008-06-29T21:48:46.925+01:00 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 havehttp://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/op-ed-columns-for-times-london.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-2046218266949514402Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:14:00 +00002008-06-29T20:16:46.851+01:00Reported 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) http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/06/channel-4-news-films.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-4513083638814081791Tue, 06 May 2008 19:21:00 +00002008-06-29T20:33:38.047+01:00A 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2008/05/googles-unhealthy-dominance-will-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-6159149621258863772Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:48:00 +00002007-10-05T23:02:14.886+01:00By David Rowan Sir 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2007/10/interview-sir-ronald-cohen-jewish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-6752580548532301611Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:03:00 +00002008-06-29T20:40:17.559+01:00By David Rowan Have 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 dinosaurshttp://www.davidrowan.com/2007/07/times-op-ed-log-on-and-rediscover.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-629027638116995262Sat, 26 May 2007 18:26:00 +00002007-05-26T19:34:31.123+01:00By David Rowan Welcome 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-mailedhttp://www.davidrowan.com/2007/05/times-have-you-got-google-under-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-117477958999289532Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:31:00 +00002007-03-25T00:39:50.020ZDavid Cameron gives his first major interview in a Jewish publication to JC editor David Rowan David 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2007/03/david-cameron-interview-jewish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116699950473963446Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:28:00 +00002006-12-24T22:31:44.770ZBy David Rowan Can 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/12/trendsurfing-trends-of-year-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116734508006818415Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:29:00 +00002006-12-28T22:37:47.456ZA Jewish money-man is pushed into the traditional scapegoat role. How convenient. By David Rowan Augustus 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 http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/12/levy-cast-out-of-temple-jewish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116630455123193213Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:27:00 +00002006-12-16T21:30:02.456ZBy David Rowan It's not just Leonardo DiCaprio and his film Blood Diamond that De Beers has to worry about. Over the next few months, the diamond cartel faces its biggest challenge in years: the roll-out to jewellers and consumer websites of a new generation of convincingly genuine stones grown entirely in a lab. As manufacturing technology races ahead, with more and more firms creating diamondshttp://www.davidrowan.com/2006/12/trendsurfing-synthetic-diamonds-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116630445343942380Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:22:00 +00002006-12-16T21:27:33.536ZBy David Rowan You use Wikipedia as a vast online free dictionary. You click around annotated mash-ups of Google Maps to share other people's thoughts on everything from recommended pubs to property prices. So it was inevitable that the publishing industry, too, would succumb to the power of collective intelligence. That quaint old notion of a professional editor being assigned to fine-tune an http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/12/trendsurfing-wiki-books-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116510466395036259Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:09:00 +00002006-12-03T00:13:23.413ZBy David Rowan They're calling it "Cellywood" - the new moviemaking industry that fits into your cellphone. Ever since handsets evolved colour screens and data speeds rocketed, filmmakers amateur and professional have been experimenting to develop custom-made movies intended for mobile-phone screens. Suddenly, the cellphone cinema trend is luring big-name directors and dominating film festivals http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/12/trendsurfing-cellphone-cinema-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116453758184352510Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:36:00 +00002006-11-26T10:39:41.866ZBy David Rowan It can be so hard for the fashionable holiday-maker to stay ahead. Just when you had caught up with Siberia or the Arctic as the latest hip destination, along come the trendhunters to warn you that actually you have got it all wrong. It is not location that now determines where you should head, but rather the "concept" of your journey that marks you out as happening. So strap http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/11/trendsurfing-concept-tourism-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116396632335406862Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:57:00 +00002006-11-19T19:58:43.373ZBy David Rowan Stuck for what Christmas presents to buy? Maybe you need the collective intelligence of a few thousand other shoppers to advise you. With Christmas online sales predicted to rise a fifth over last year, a new swath of recommendation services is fighting to be the consumer’s first port of call. With names such as Crowdstorm, Kaboodle, StyleHive and Whatsbuzzing, these internet http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/11/trendsurfing-social-shopping-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10878440.post-116329440924374823Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:17:00 +00002006-11-12T01:20:09.300ZBy David Rowan Be careful what you believe on the internet: there's a growing chance that you are being hoaxed by a cynical PR firm. Just as the blogging explosion was teaching us about "vlogs" (video blogs) and "moblogs" (mobile blogs), along comes yet another trend that is far more pernicious. A "flog" is a fake weblog which purports to chronicle an ordinary consumer's passion for a business http://www.davidrowan.com/2006/11/trendsurfing-flogs-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Rowan)