Every year Ofcom, the British communications regulator, releases a snapshot of the UK media landscape. This year’s report contains a vast treasure trove of data and analysis on everything from media consumption to device usage to spending on online advertising to trends in user-generated media. There’s more than enough to keep media geeks and business analysts occupied for days on end. With so much on offer in this 337 page report it’s hard to decide [...]

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One of the cardinal rules of Wikipedia is that employees of companies/organizations should not edit entries about their employers, just as individuals shouldn’t edit their own biographies. The temptation is hard to resist for organizations seeking to bolster their public image, but the prospect of getting caught doctoring one’s Wikipedia entry is an embarrassment that most companies would rather not endure. Just ask Microsoft who recently got caught paying experts to “correct” entries about it [...]

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Boing Boing picked up on this irreverant Henry Rollins rant on Internet freedom. I thought it was worth reposting here. Rollins was a teenager hero for me. He clearly hasn’t lost his edge. Not for the faint-hearted.

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I doubt anyone who has watched Fox news recently will find the content of this YouTube video particularly surprising. Nevertheless, it reminds me of a conversation I was having a yesterday with a few New Paradigm colleagues about the Bush administration’s concerted attack on science. This attack is now well documented (see The Scientist, subs only unfortunately) and includes not just climate science, but everything from sex education to stem cell research. If you’re going [...]

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As the presidential candidates race heats up, the political power of the blogosphere is growing. All eight Democratic presidential candidates will be wooing potential supporters at the YearlyKos convention beginning on Thursday, a key gathering for liberal bloggers organized by DailyKos – one of the first and most influential political blogs. The event, btw, will be covered by some 200 political journalists–which says something about just how much things have changed. As for the candidates, [...]

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