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Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright syst...

Last week Techdirt wrote about a draft of a civil rights-based framework for the Internet that is being considered by lawmakers in Brazil...

I've been pretty sceptical - and critical - of the BBC's TV over IP efforts, including Project Canvas : Project Canvas is a proposed...

On the one hand, we have a bunch of people I've never heard of whingeing in the Times : We are very concerned that the successes of the...

I've noticed increasingly that the "young people" seem to watch YouTube rather than that old-fashioned thing called "TV...

The New York Times has a feature on the Neuros OSD (for open source device): The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theater system an...

Well, not quite, alas, but certainly an interesting shift : We think we know that the professional news media, especially newspapers, are ob...

Trust Yochai to give us a way forward - and some hope : In the mass media environment, there was a general culture of "I saw it in prin...

Sounds good to me, in a double sense: form and content. (Via IP Democracy .)

Those pair of old Skypers, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, are at it again. But curmudgeon that I am, I won't be sad if this particul...

I wouldn't normally write about software designed for the world of film and TV industries, but this seems pretty noteworthy. Celtx (pr...

I've not read the article (which is hidden behind a paywall ), but judging by this choice quotation video will become the dominant way p...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away - well, in California, about 1994 - O'Reilly came out with something called " Internet in a ...

The ever-acute Doc Searls reports on the CES keynote from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Given Searls' position as an alpha blogger, it was...

For a long time, I have had two great Web hates: pages made up of PDFs and those using Flash animations. I realise now that to these I have...