I don’t understand Google. The current trend seems to dislike them as an empire-building monolith, but I liked them when I first saw their totally clean, white, uncluttered search engine with the best search results. All the others, Yahoo, Excite, MSN etc were full of flashy, buy-me advertising bullshit and it was and still is nasty. Google has quietly moved into all kinds of other areas, notable perhaps for buying up the newsgroups a few…
Interesting photographic event recently, at Tate Modern. There are a few different ways of considering this; one is that neither the Tate Modern nor indeed any major galleries have been well disposed towards photography. The National Gallery broke a little ground, and the Tate Modern has done some stuff before (eg showing Robert Frank), but on the whole my point is accurate, though not confined to Britain. I understand that France, notably, has a more favourable…