Category: Media

  • Is there a media campaign against UKIP?

    Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into…

  • RSS

    In an effort to share more, and using the new xfruits site (HT: JD Lasica) I’ve rolled up my RSS subs (all 236 238 and counting) into one big feed you can just subscribe to. It’s on the left. There’s a couple of quirky subs in there (my folding bike, for example) but otherwise I…

  • Sky News on Freeview

    Friday is always a good day for announcements. That’s the day Ofcom announced this: Sky proposal to launch new service on digital terrestrial television On 8 February 2007 Sky announced that it proposes to launch a new service on the digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform. Following a series of requests for clarity on the regulatory…

  • Who pays for your blog?

    Howard Owens blogs off Jeff Jarvis, who has in turn blogged off Mark Potts to observe that news content has always been free: Newspaper subscribers have never paid for content. They have paid for delivery. These days, I read thousands of words a content every day. I pay for all of it. But I don’t…