The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that bloggers are in favour of a universal code of conduct being drawn up to govern conduct online.
It's a measure that comes too late in my opinion, for the unofficial rules have already been written: there are none.

I have just finished reading Nick Davies' Flat Earth News, the hack-and-tell boo

I just came across this nuanced and well-informed approach to the recent upsurge in

Transitions Online is a cracking site devoted to 28 post-Communist countries.

This is our chance to prove that we aren't the doom-mongers our name might imply.

It is perhaps fitting that the last article i wrote for this website was about the relative security of the print format.

Just what are these newspapers thinking?

(USA) - My speculation last week that Fox had a clever plan to take over newspaper and local TV news, and grab local advertising revenues, got a big credibility boost today.

(USA) - Ron Berryman, who has responsibility for the online strategy of Fox's local TV affiliates, sure seems impatient these days waiting for his stations to create more original local content.  What could Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox be up to?  Hmmm.  Let's play out the next 5-15 years.  Local newspapers will have moved online, perhaps totally.  Web-based TV (IPTV) will have made local TV affiliates obsolete -- there no longer being a need for each metro area to have its o

Sadly, due to the complacency of John Sweeney, one of Britain's most talented tv reporters who spent weeks of investigations into the Scientology "church" the BBC has gained worldwide attention but not much admiration for an exciting and committed story. Sweeney's programme called "Me and Scientology" was aired by BBC Panorama on 14 May and it is available online. 

Who came up with this silly notion that news outlets would have greater "editorial independence" to criticize government, follow more enlightened principles, and report with less bias if the founders' descendants and their families were granted more corporate voting power than their financial stockholdings merited?  OK, it must have been the descendants themselves, but why did the rest of us go along with this?

As the story broke last night that Portuguese police were searching a house in connection with the disappearance of British toddle Madeleine McCann, i got a taste of how the rapidity of the news media

(USA) - Those who currently control news do not want to relinquish their power to citizens and the free market, and are demanding the full force of government to prevent it. That is the clear message from last week's excellent L.A.