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Yesterday we were celebrating the virtues of Twitter as a news flash tool for natural disasters.
The subsequent revelation that tens of thousands of people have died is making some of us uneasy that our self congratulatory tweets and blog posts were somewhat inappropriate.
Kaiser Kuo of Digital Watch wrote a very thoughtful, but ambivalent post about [...]

Reports are emerging on international news sites that the death toll from yesterday’s Sichuan earthquake is 10 000 and rising.
Al Jazeera’s English site reported that there was extensive damage in the epicentre of Wenchuan County and surrounding areas.
The toll is expected to rise sharply as authorities and rescue teams make contact with the worst-hit areas [...]

John C Dvorak’s recent ranting and raving about China is highly entertaining, but his analysis has more holes in it than a lump of Swiss cheese.

To those who are unfamiliar, John C Dvorak is a well known tech writer, blogger (http://www.dvorak.org/blog), podcaster and curmudgeon who hosts Cranky Geeks and NoAgenda. No Agenda is an hour [...]

There is a new story spreading around the Internet that video sharing sites are about to become inaccessible from China. Here is an extract from The Guardian:
It was the internet story of 2007, the website that brought you sneezing pandas, laughing babies, an epic battle on the African savannah and a guest appearance by Tony [...]

I spend many hours every week listening to and watching various technology podcasts from Twit, ZD, Revision 3 and CNET. They are all written and presented by former TechTV employees so it little wonder that they are almost exclusively focused on Silicon Valley and North American issues? Occasionally, Europe will get a brief mention and [...]

have written about my loathing of digital rights management (DRM) on several occasions, because honest consumers are forced to pay for media such as music and films that works less well than something they could steal for free. I made the mistake of paying for a few really good albums by Joanna Newsome, Nina [...]

I’ve just been perusing the IBO’s (International Baccalaureate Organisation) forums for news about the IT ethics course I teach. I am a little concerned that this academic community is so dismissive of Wikipedia as a source of information. Therefore, I wrote this post in defense of Wikipedia that I have quoted below:
I am writing [...]

Comic Paul Merton has recently been touring China, making a light hearted documentary that is currently being aired on Channel Five in the UK. If the few clips we have seen are anything to go by, then this follows the best tradition of whimsical British travelogues such as Louis Theroux’s Wild Weekend.
Highlights include a visit [...]

Lifehacker just written about this very useful Internet TV streaming tool. If you are getting fedup with watching the local channels then you can stream international live TV from your Google homepage using the live TV widget or copy and paste the html into another webpage. You need a fast Internet connection and Windows Media [...]

The BBC is going to suspend its Jam edcuation platform after complaints to the European Commission that the service is having an adverse effect on small software suppliers. Dominic Savage of the British Edcuation Software Association expressed the industry’s concern that the BBC was duplicating their activity. Jam was providing Internet learning resources to support [...]