Lots of attention is being paid today to an article in the Guardian about a new study claiming that illegal file sharing has collapsed in the UK and is being replaced by streaming music found on YouTube and through services like Spotify.
If politicians want to effect economic recovery, national competitiveness, good public health and high civic engagement, they have a duty to keep the internet free and open.
Ever been to Twitter.co.uk by mistake? You’re one of about 3,000 people who do exactly that every day–and that might not be a problem for Twitter if it actually owned the domain twitter.co.uk.
Microsoft’s Live Search revamp apparently cannot come soon enough.
It’s the jewel in the crown of Internet piracy, but is the verdict against Pirate Bay a pyrrhic victory?
Tragic events unfolded yesterday as a group of British skiers became separated from two of their party in the Swiss resort of Verbier. The rescue operation took on a global perspective when members of the party–a group of U.K. technology entrepreneurs–used the microblogging site Twitter in trying to locate the missing skiers.
A discussion that began on a journalist’s personal blog has sparked a wider debate on ethics in the age of social media as the lines between journalists’ professional work and their personal activities blur.
Though U.K. start-ups PopJam and Huddle may be doing relatively well, everything else I’ve heard from British Web company founders since I got to town has been terrifyingly negative. But I’ve realised that, for an expert in dot-com failure, the recession is a seller’s market.
I’m not sure why the micropayments-as-the-savior-of-journalism meme seems to have taken off of late, but I’m glad there are lots of people trying to squash it: I’d particularly recommend Gabe Sherman and Clay Shirky. But in the case of Steve Brill’s “secret memo” on the subject, it’s worth responding to some of his specifics.
Barack Obama’s inauguration was clearly historic as the United States celebrated its first black president, but the coverage and experience of the inauguration also broke new ground. For the first time, digital satellite images showed the millions of people who braved the cold to see the inauguration.
The footage is shaky and low quality, with chaotic shouts and protests from onlookers at a subway station in San Francisco’s East Bay. But it clearly shows three policeman roughly handling a group of young men–including one who is pinned to the ground by two officers and shot in the back.
The other day a message popped up on Twitter. Jay Rosen, who teaches journalism at New York University, asked–in all seriousness, and innocence–”I know I sound clueless and that’s never pleasant, but… what in tarnation does ‘rickrolled’ mean?”
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