Technology and comment
Every Sunday I settle into bed and watch This Week in Tech, the flagship program on Leo Laporte's TWIT network. The program normally has Laporte and three other tech commentators, and covers the big news of the week. Over the last few weeks though I've...
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Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net In all the analysis of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into press ethics there has been one rather uncomfortable truth that has been ignored. The key point of the story...
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Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net I was about to write my inevitable response to Leveson, once again laying out why I think bringing regulation of the press under the guise of politicians is wrong....
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In a brilliant piece, Mark Wallace points out that those of us in the blogosphere would be a lot better off with state regulation of the press, but that doesn’t mean it’s right. “So I, and Guido, and a thousand other blogs yet to be born would be in...
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I’ve just posted a piece on Total Politics calling for the Lib Dems to stand against any state regulation of the press in response to Leveson tomorrow. You can imagine how well that has gone down with some sections of the party. It seems that there is...
Read moreToday it was rather nice to see two remarkable women given rather a high profile by the mainstream media. Interestingly, it was via the same newspaper – The Times. They weren’t politicians or pop stars, but two talented women who are very good at what...
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I have really enjoyed editing The Wall this week. Today is my last day doing that as the boss returns tomorrow! Here is an intersting one from Facebook, who are trying to up their Android game. Over the last few months we have been closely monitoring...
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