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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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