John Baker’s Blog

Author Sean Taylor has refused to accept the prize money after winning the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize 2007. Taylor’s picture book When A Monster is Born, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, took the Gold Award in the under-fives category. But Taylor said he did not feel able to accept his half of the £2,500 prize, citing [...]

Gerd is front of house. A taught and wired transvestite with an acrobatic mouth, there is something Scandinavian about her but you couldn’t say what. She is wearing a pinstripe suit with tiny two-tone black and white patent shoes. Swiss cotton shirt with a slim tie knotted Windsor style.
Henri has cooked a goose and we [...]

SearchEngineLand reports on the results of a Pew/Internet survey, concentrating on what people tend to search for on the web. Approximately half of internet users have done ego searches, looking for themselves, checking out their online presence.
Self-validation seems to be an increasingly necessary act as we move further into the 21st century. We’ve known for [...]

Last week, in desperate last-minute negotiations, the world faced down an effort by the US, Canada and Japan to wreck the crucial Bali Climate Change Summit.
Arriving in Bali, most countries wanted to work towards a new global treaty on climate change as well as new targets for carbon emissions by rich countries. But late last [...]