the internet and other things
I met a week or two ago with a couple of guys from internet technology company Phorm. They presented what struck me as an exciting proposition: a network of business relationships, of which phorm would be the administrators, named the Open Internet Exchange, or OIX. more…
It was reported last month that five families at a court in Los Angeles jointly filed a negligence and fraud suit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. The company owns the social networking site MySpace, which enabled paedophiles to groom and sexually assault the children of those families.
I first read about this case shortly after writing my last blog entry, and I think it provokes a discussion that follows from it: about the responsibility that new media providers must be willing to accept if they are to protect the health of new media. more…
You may have seen an article in Tuesday’s Evening Standard about the rise to fame of Mia Rose, whose homemade music videos have made her the most-viewed person on the video-sharing web site YouTube.
It got me thinking about the effects of increasing interactivity in our media environment. We can’t ignore the fact that interactive modes of media are becoming increasingly popular, so it seems worth wondering what the effects of that interactivity are on the way media works. more…