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Democratising TV. The Al Gore way

Sunday, October 8th, 2006Al Gore yesterday unveiled plans to launch a UK version of his "user generated" network, Current TV , with the help of BSkyB, the pay-TV giant of which Rupert Murdoch is chairman.He believes Current TV's hybrid of the internet ...

The great junk mail revolt

Thursday, August 31st, 2006Now this is a first - us quoting the Daily Mail.But I first became aware of this particular story whilst listening to BBC radio 1. The news item was that a Welsh postman had been suspended from work for misconduct ...

Contextual content redefines the advertising industry

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Google and ebay from alliance to tailor ads to every customerWas the headline in the Guardian today.Don't tell me broadcasting is not in trouble! Its business model - defunct and obsoleteAnd I wonder if YouTube will not one-day ...

Lily Allen at Number 1 in the charts

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Need we say more. You go girl.The BBC reportsSinger Lily Allen has topped the UK singles chart with her song Smile.The 21-year-old nudged Shakira's Hips Don't Lie into the second spot after it spent just one week at the ...

The young disengage with politics

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006A study co-produced by the study co-produced by the Hansard Society on e-democracy and OfCom investigates why young people are not engaging with the political processHowever it is important to be realistic about the obstacles facing young ...

Blushing Auntie’s success not so clear cut

Friday, June 16th, 2006The BBC's embrace of the internet is not the first time it has championed a new medium, since it was a pioneer in television, able to take on the risk of investing in an untried technology. Its role in ...

Digital salvation

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006One tribute that seemed more significant than most as the baton passed last week and the retiring CEO of the Guardian Media Group, owner of The Observer and much else, hailed his newly designated successor. 'This is a first ...

Better Than We Know Ourselves

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Music - economics - socioeconomics - search - contextual search - narrative threads in a borderless world - google for the ears - collaborative filtering - tags - social information filtering - navigating superabundance in a superdistributed world - databases ...

Reputation: the growing importance of trust in our digital world

Saturday, April 29th, 2006Rob Hof in his article Are online reputations portable? opens up the debate For years, both sellers and buyers on eBay have bellyached about not being able to carry their reputations--the feedback ratings they get from each other ...

Site hopes to be Wikipedia of travel world

Thursday, April 20th, 2006From the San Francisco Chronicle Because most travel guidebooks are out of date before they hit the bookstore shelves, TripAdvisor.com of Needham, Mass., has started a guidebook-like service that will be written and edited anonymously by the Web ...

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