Stephen Fry

The Intelligence Squared Debate: Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics (1 of 5)

Stephen Law (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thanks to Blakeley Nixon for this link...

Stephen Fry attacks 'malevolent' comments following Twitter spat

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

'I would not say that I lost faith in Twitter, I would say that I lost faith in my ability to negotiate it,' says Stephen Fry Stephen Fry, technophile and a "twillionaire" having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him to commit "twitticide" last month and consider leaving the micro-blogging service . "I would not say that...

Stephen Fry & the Gutenberg Press

I Didn't Write That! (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Watch it on this device designed to annihilate the products of the printing press.

Adopt a word - Paul has, so has Stephen Fry - to help children communicate

Reflections (Free subscription) | yesterday

Paul McCartney Supports Adopt a Word Sir Paul McCartney has adopted the word ‘Gift’. He says “People often talk about the gift of music. For many years, I didn’t realise how true that is. There is so much in life that is a gift for all of us and all we have to do is appreciate it.” Visit the Adopt a Word website Posted via email from sunwalking's posterous

Steven Webb, Nigel Harman and Robert Daws are Public Property

Matt Davies (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

As I previously blogged , I was due to go to the first preview of Public Property at Trafalgar Studios last week, but due to a technical hitch that performance was cancelled. Got tickets rearranged for last night and it was well worth the wait. It was a good night before the play even started, as Stephen Fry (who makes a videoed appearance in the play) was also there to watch. Just standing next to...

Backstage at #140conf London

The Jeff Pulver Blog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

Jeff Pulver @jeffpulver and Stephen Fry @stephenfry Photo taken by: Alan Weinkrantz - - - Tags: 140conf , social media , 140 Characters Conference , twitter , Jeff Keni Pulver

Twitter is...

AdLand Suit (Free subscription) | yesterday

[The below list has already appeared in an earlier post, but people seemed to like it - as such, I thought I'd publish it separately so that people don't have to read through the pro-twitter polemic that originally preceded it. I've added in a few extra points just to make this vaguely defensible as a 'new' post.] The twitter experience is nigh on impossible to define - it's different for everybody....

Clarifications on Same sex attraction

Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | yesterday

On of the most frequent questions I amasked at schools is about homosexuality: Can two gay people love each other? Ishomosexuality a sin? Stephen Fry displayed his ignorance on the issue duringthe Intelligence Squared debate- because he had no idea what the Church taughtabout homosexuality beyond his assumptions. Here is a clarification of exactly what theCatholic Church teaches. In the Catechism four...

Public Property at Trafalgar Studios review

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

Public Property at Trafalgar Studios which features a videorecorded cameo from Stephen Fry is a cautionary tale for our celebobsessed age. Rating:

Writing makes us free

Headshift Moments (Free subscription) | yesterday

Summary of a lovely discussion abotu Twitter hosted by NESTA

Fry Cocks up again

ballacorkish.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

With at least eleven people including a police officer currently missing and livelihoods, houses and belongings lost in the floods in Cumbria, Stephen Fry feels that it’s a good time to make a cheap and smutty gag about the worst hit area: I’m sure this will be lauded by his legion of 1,000,000+ automatons followers as hugely amusing, but [...]

Twitter premium accounts for business users due by end of the year

The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

So how's Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry , gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday… "Supposing I was to say to someone: 'you can have my Twitter identity for an hour on Wednesday if you pay me x pounds and you can speak to a million people direct'," said Fry, whose...

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Kidneys, livers and hearts I understand, but fat?

Jumblerant (Free subscription) | yesterday

Its safe for me to return to Peru now. The land of Paddington Bear and the location for Stephen Fry's (praise be The Tweet) amazing books and documentaries; 'Paddington Bear: The Early... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Twitter looking to businesses to monetise the model

Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | yesterday

For me the most interesting part of yesterday's NESTA sponsored discussion on twitter was the news that the company is looking at launching corporate accounts that would help the site begin to generate revenues. Biz Stone dropped this into the conversation adding that they hoped to roll out some of these tools by the end of the year “This takes advantage of some of the commercial use of Twitter...

Twitter: the talk of the town

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

There is much debate over the personal and commercial possibilities of the microblogging phenomenon, writesRichard Gillis