French court finds website guilty of privacy breach for linking
Last week a French court found a website guilty of breach the privacy of actor Olivier Martinez because it linked to a story about him (hat tip Cybersoc). The site, Fuzz.fr, had linked to a gossip...
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Happy birthday WWW!
Today is the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web, marked by the CERN announcement on April 30 1993 that the web would be free to all. It’s a cue to sit back and marvel at how much has changed in a...
View ArticleInflection Point: Pay per performance for online journos
Journalism.co.uk wrote a story last week about comments RBI managing director Jim Muttram made to the PPA conference about performance related pay for journalists. Back on his own blog Jim has posted...
View ArticleNew media types among Evening Standard’s 1000 most influential Londoners
Peter Mandelson had to be a last minute addition to the list because the magazine had already gone to press: being offline seems to be a recurring theme for the London Evening Standard’s 1000 most...
View ArticleNaming Baby P is not about giving into a Facebook campaign
Naming Baby P and his mother is not about giving into a hysterical Facebook campaign group; this is about confronting the reality of the online age. I can’t link to it here, because it would be...
View ArticleEditor&Publisher (via AP): Murdoch tells ‘cynics’ that newspapers will survive
It’s widely reported, but worth flagging up for those who haven’t seen coverage. AP reports: Rupert Murdoch has said that doomsayers ‘who are predicting the internet will kill off newspapers are...
View ArticleEric Ulken’s next assignment: the online world, from around the world
The LA Times interactive technology editor Eric Ulken is off to trot the globe, after ten years working in newspapers. “Now I hope to effect change from the outside”, he writes. “Earlier this month, I...
View ArticleSecond dose of Stephen Fry: transcript from Digital Britain –‘I don’t need to...
Another dose of Fry this morning, in an earlier post we reproduced yesterday’s comments to the BBC about journalists and expenses. Courtesy of Malcolm Coles, here is the full transcript [below video]...
View ArticleScottish Sun: Naming Baby P’s mum and step-dad
The Scottish Sun is claiming it will name the mum and step-dad of Baby P at midnight (BST) tonight) as a reporting ban on identifying the pair expires at 11:59pm. The article goes on to describe how...
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