Showing posts with label stephen fry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stephen fry. Show all posts

Monday, November 09, 2009

That JFK moment


The Fry affair was Twitter's first JFK moment,well at least according to Matthew Norman in the Independent this morning

Or what we were doing when news of his subsequent un-resignation gave those of us too young to remember the flavour of the joyous relief when Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich waving his piece of paper? Pray God Stephen's return doesn't prove another false dawn, but regardless of that fear the episode constitutes Twitter's first JFK moment.
writes Norman

Monday, November 02, 2009

Fry blogger critic revealed

So it appears that the blogger who nearly sent Stephen Fry into twitter oblivion runs a an adult site in Birmingham.

The Birmingham Mail has tracked him down and reports that

The 47-year-old translator from Handsworth, who uses the false name Richard Plum, has become the subject of a hate campaign since making the comments against the television presenter

Friday, October 26, 2007

Surely to be one of the best bloggers ever


At last Stephen Fry is blogging.

Check out his site

And apparently

My first blog entry, Devices and Desires (see below) went some way towards expressing my extreme passion for things digital. It resulted in a very charming enquiry from the Guardian newspaper in London. Would I be interested in providing a weekly column on the subject of the gadget, the electronic doo-dad and the world of the gismoidal? I thought about this longish and hardish
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