Cohen: Channel 4's pick for tech reporter

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We know you love to follow the antics of technology journalism (cough) but here's one which may intrigue... Channel 4 has just appointed a new technology correspondent, and it's none other than Britain's former-teenage-dotcom-entrepreneur Benjamin Cohen (hinted at over on Media Monkey earlier this week). Cohen, of course, set up SoJewish back in the day when he was off school, and turned it into a going concern. Then he tried a porn search engine - Hunt4Porn - before trying his hand at cybersquatting by buying the iTunes.co.uk domain. That didn't come off, and for the last few years he's made his main job gay news site PinkNews. You can see further details of his exploits at the Reg and Wikipedia. Nothing if not colourful, eh? Let's see how he turns his hand to the telly...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2006/07/06/channel_4s_pick_for_tech_reporter.html

 

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If you want a proper laugh have a dig through theregister.co.uk 's archive of stories about him

 

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Has he got money in his pocket? I doubt he'd care would he otherwise? you can be ten times a failure, you only need one bite at success. A cybersquatting porn mad gay jew, it's got to be a niche area though hehe

 

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niche

his old jewish grandma used to always say to him as a boy,... 'it's nice to be important, but more important to be niche!'
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i won't give up the day job don't worry!:shock: :shock: :shock: