Having played around for a couple of weeks now with my shiny new iPhone, I thought it was about time I posted something about what I think about it.

A few weeks ago, I went to see Radiohead playing at Victoria Park in London. As I tend to do when I go to see something that I think might be interesting, I took my camera along.

As I went through the security check, I was told that I wouldn't be allowed to take my camera out once I was inside the arena- especially with my zoom lens. Apparently "small" cameras and mobile phones with built-in cameras are fine, but "big" cameras are forbidden.

I came across this story in my RSS reader.

It's not new news (published almost 2 weeks ago), but apparently, Paris Hilton hasn't seen the video in which presidential candidate John McCain compares Obama's celebrity status to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and she isn't likely to.

Which is strange, because it makes it hard to explain her excellent response on Will Ferrel's FunnyOrDie.com website (which has apparently had 6.2 million views already- plus another . But it does give me an excuse to post it here.

I came across this Wired story about a new electric guitar.

The thing about electric guitars is that they have always been kind of stuck in the past; the classic designs of the Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul and the traditional acoustic guitar shape. The way the vibrations of the strings is converted into an electrical signal has barely changed since the 1920s, and because wood is still the best material to use, the kind of engineering knowledge that's been passed down through generations of craftsmen has been more relevant than the latest scientific breakthroughs .

That is, until now.

There's an idea that Marshal McLuhan talks about, to do with how there's a balance between our senses. The idea is that you can never give anything more than 100% of your attention, so whenever one sense takes your focus, then the attention you can give to the other senses has to be lessened. This is a key theme of "The Gutenberg Galaxy"— how the invention of the printing press created a huge cultural shift in the way we communicate, creating a literate society, so instead of an oral culture we became a visual culture, and information is now usually something that's read. As a result, even though we think that we mainly value the content and words of what we hear, any professional speaker knows that what you say isn't nearly as important as how you say it and how you appear. Hundreds, if not thousands of years of cultural evolution don't just get swept away by a new technology.