About an hour ago, Adam Gee, New Media Commissioner at Channel 4, Twittered about the Channels’ new site, Sexperience. It launches tomorrow and sounds rather interesting.
But now, go to the site and watch the video on the front page. Then you’ll realise why I couldn’t resist wasting forty five minutes making this…
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Sorry Adam.
(Sexperience: Answers to your questions about Sexuality, First Time Sex, Single Life, Sex in Relationships and Pregnancy based on real people’s real experiences. Launches tomorrow.)
“Until Robert explained to me what a haiku was, I thought you’d just written something shit in the front of my book to be mean.” - Stephanie
Lovely Stephanie. Outside the Spiegeltent. Saturday. Is there anything funnier than when posh girls go Street?
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(Sorry - just had to share that.)
I’m going to write a proper post about this later - my first time in a TV studio (I was a talking head for Newsround once, years ago, but they came to me) - but meantime, here’s the video of my very brief Sky News appearance last night…
It’s on the Sky News Blog too.
“Being the first ‘Rong’s’ event, the party promised to be a hell of a night. The sort of night that, had Caligula been hosting a networking event downstairs, he’d have probably come up to ask us to keep it down a bit because we were frightening the horses. Needless to say, I was looking forward to it immensely.”
Robert Loch - serial entrepreneur, uber-networker, decadent event organiser and now in-pub-on-site interviewee.
We met up in Soho’s Dog and Duck pub for a chat over some Sam Smith’s beer to discuss matters of great importance.
Matters like his latest venture, his world famous party flat and hot tub, his passionate love for Channel 4 News tech correspondent Benjamin Cohen and - most importantly of all - just exactly how much of a twat he thinks I am.
And exactly how much of a twat is that? Click the play button below and all will be revealed.
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“The event’s organiser, Mike Butcher, took to the stage and introduced our panel. A couple of years earlier we’d had a very public spat after he wrote an article accusing me of using my Guardian column for blatant self-promotion (he was absolutely right, of course, but there was no need to draw attention to it). Since then he’d (sort of ) taken back some of his nastier comments and I’d called him a wanker. All was well again.”
TechCrunch UK/Ireland editor Mike Butcher has been covering the web scene since Mark Zuckerberg was still in short trousers. Ever ahead of the curve, he dedicated an entire page on his website to attacking me, before it was considered fashionable to do so.
I caught up with Mike in a 300-year-old London pub to talk about the real story behind the TechCrunch UK blog fight, the importance of openness, Jason Calacanis and the giving of surnames to bulldogs, the grey goo of misfortune and how - after everything - he still thinks I’m a “loony”.
Jason Calacanis, for his part, has been quick to respond to Mike’s comments about how important Calacanis’ blog is by - er - immediately retiring from blogging. Well, Mike, I hope you’re pleased with yourself.
(And, Sarah Lacy, I could never hate you.)
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It is the companion site to his book, Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, which is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and is available in all good bookshops right now.
Do make yourself at home.


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