Happy New Year to all 14 of my unique visitors! The beginning of 2008 is a chance to reflect on the fact that in the six months that I’ve been writing this blog, virtually no-one has read it.
Despite my transparent attempts to build traffic by baiting Andrew Gilligan (which did, at least, result in a [...]

I’m slightly behind the times on this one but I found the story about the government minister faking a photo at Tameside Hospital rather thought-provoking and not especially scandalous.
On one level, I found it quite amazing that this particular piece of digital manipulation was ever considered good enough to be sent out. Culture Secretary James [...]

Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile phone company, has pulled all its “skyscraper” adverts from Facebook today because one of them was positioned on the British National Party’s page.
Vodafone’s official line is that it doesn’t want to be associated with “any” political party, although something tells me the BNP’s “send ‘em back where they come from [...]

Since Friday, I seem to keep reading stuff about something called Parakey. I can’t quite figure out what it is other than some kind of operating system that “bridges the gap between information on the web and the desktop”. No mainstream news source I’ve so far come across (and admittedly I haven’t looked very hard) [...]