On my commute into the office this morning I listened to the Meet the Author: Stephen Fry podcast from Apple. I highly recommend it. Fry is as entertaining a raconteur as ever, and his meandering history of computers and the internet is well worth listening to.
However, the meaty stuff kicks off at around 43 minutes in, as he starts talking about the reaction of journalists to Twitter and moves onto the relationship between the web and our culture. Mach to agree with, and much to provoke thought.
You can grab it from iTunes.
However, the meaty stuff kicks off at around 43 minutes in, as he starts talking about the reaction of journalists to Twitter and moves onto the relationship between the web and our culture. Mach to agree with, and much to provoke thought.
You can grab it from iTunes.
As much as I love Stephen Fry, and I do, I am not really sure what all the fuss is about. There are plenty of celebrities with Twitter, it's just he seems to update it more than others, but he has always admitted to being a technophile. He owned the second Mac computer ever to arrive in Britain, after Douglas Adams took the first.
I have Twitter, if I become famous, will there be a debate about me?
Well, he was the earliest prominent UK celebrity to get on Twitter, and then he talked about it live on Jonathan Ross's show. (Ross is another Twitter user.) That double whammy propelled Twitter into the mainstream in the UK, and Fry's technophile credentials with it.
Thanks for the recommendation - I finally managed to catch up with this podcast on my train journey this morning, its a great potted history of the internet and very entertaining. I wonder what a Fry's digital britain report would have looked like?