Punchy, bitchy and under the skin of the tech industry, The Kernel is no more. Its gossipy style made almost as many enemies as it won readers; it was certainly fun while it lasted. Writers should have been paid though and the baliffs came knocking. The niche needs filling. Plagiarists, deviants and entrepreneurs will sleep soundly tonight.
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Shame – I quite liked the Kernel, although it did come over as a vanity project for Miiiilo much of the time. Nice design too.
Relaunch it with more open contributions. A site like that needn’t cost an enormous amount to run, apart from the court cases.
I thought there was a needlessly unpleasant tone about it.
The Kernel was what The Register was until it was forced to cozy up to all the corporate IT companies for a crust.
Milo is a legend now. He’s probably lost few quid but I’m sure he’ll come good.
El Reg has softened its bite a bit since starting out in the 90′s (I was an insider contributing to some of the hacks back then – they were and remain top peeps) but they have hardly cosied up to the vendors. Apple famously really don’t like them and the many of the other big names do watch their step.
Yeah. he’s a legendary bullshitter but it’s other people’s money he’s lost as per usual.
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It’s been pretty funny watching the descent of milo from some right wing moron giving it the large on the internet to just being a right wing moron. Maybe the drugs wore off.
If only he had some bottomless pot of union money to fall back on, itself extorted from the taxpayer and spirited to the bruvvers with oxymoronic talk of ‘modernisation’.
But we can’t all be left wingers.
Cliché much
Kernel?
I’m trying to fill some of the gap left behind by the Kernel.
In their early days they told a lot of stories that needed to be told but as time went on they also alienated much of the London tech scene.
My aim is to make Tech City News the site of record for the whole tech industry in this great city.
I’m keen to hear your thoughts.
Alex
Come back when you can shave.
Milo was on his 3rd surname, sacked from a string of jobs for dodgy behaviour, please don’t pretend he’s some sort of martyr. Lets see if the courts decide he was engaging in wrongful trading, then he’ll really have to face the music.
Raking over the private lives of ordinary people NOT politicians or celebs is absolutely disgraceful. Plus there was no actual reportage or analysis – just bluster, cant and nastiness. Not paying people is bad, the bullying and cruelty is worse.
Media Guido is meh – the last thing you should do is launch another spin-off.
The Kernel may have started of with the right intentions, but it morphed into a vanity project and personal mouthpiece for Milo that built up friends and slagged off every one else, picking unmerited fights with the famous just for the clicks. It did not serve the needs of the community that it purported to represent. The business model may have worked with great content that adds value not the tripe it delivered