On the internet, content is king. You can the prettiest website out there, but unless the content is good it won’t matter and no-one will visit [maybe I need to write better, then? - Ed.]. But we are used to our online content being free: free news, opinion, access to videos, and everything else the internet offers.
Rupert Murdoch believes that this will change and that he can persuade people to pay to read his newspapers online. Erm, sorry Rupes, ain’t gonna happen. We expect online content to be free. People …

Christmas Number One this year is very different to the past four years. The X Factor winner has not won the chart battle, but the “anyone-but” candidate has sold more.
I didn’t participate in the so-called revolution or example of “people power” for one good reason: I preferred Joe McElderry’s song “The Climb” to Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name”. It’s a better song – even though I didn’t buy that one either.
I think it’s pretty ridiculous to set up this sort of petty campaign just to oppose Simon …

If we are to believe Google, an escort agency is operating from within – or maybe at – Number 10 Downing Street.

You’d have thought Brown would be busy enough failing to run the country properly…

This is what you see if you try to access it at the moment…

Some people seem to have a massive over-estimation of the reach of social media and its effect(s) on democracy around the world. Twitter, Facebook et al are merely tools that can be used to spread democracy and to facilitate participation – it can’t overturn election results!
Its power lies purely in the ability to stir people up and to encorage them to take action – as an electronic format, it has absolutely no power in and of itself. Nothing more than be done. Joining a Facebook group, tweeting or blogging about …

The media, it would appear, are using the internet as a resource for endless numbers of stories about “online crazes” or “internet hits”. Like this latest one:

A new blog matching pictures of drunk people with yoga positions has become a huge internet hit.
The blog has become a huge hit since it started, attracting thousands of visitors.
The blog shows a series of photographs of people taken while asleep and drunk in various different positions – sprawled across a bench, bending backwards over a chair and kneeling face down under a bus-stop …

It’s Thursday and Question Time is back. And, as usual, I shall be tweeting along – use the hastag #bbcqt to keep up to date!
I’m sure that, as usual, it will be well attended and very enjoyable indeed.
Be there or be square!
UPDATE: What a Question Time! Margaret Beckett got thoroughly fingered in the MP expenses and all the MPs on the show – Beckett, Ming Campbell, and Theresa May – got heckled more than I have ever seen before on QT.
There is so much anger out there that MPs just …

According to Tom Harris, the Scottish version of the Hatemail on Sunday has published an article under the headline “Proof at last… our MPs really are a bunch of prize twits” attacking himself, Jo Swinson and Eric Joyce for Twittering from the Commons camber during PMQs (the article is not online and so this is taken on faith).
Tom has, rightly, stated that he will continue to Twitter during PMQs no matter what Mail hacks think.
I think it is a good thing that MPs do this – I think that more …

Question Time is back, and being discussed on Twitter. Very fun it was too, my first live tweeting.
Matt Wardman and I were playing the new “Interruptions Count” game, for which the rules are simple:

The loser of any discussion is the one who interrupts their co-interviewees the most.

The results of my viewing last night is as follows:
And the winner is: David Dimbleby! He scored 12 interruptions and 7 attempted interruptions.
He constantly interrupted the panel and got in the way of debate (or rather “debate”).
Close behind in second place: David Starkey. He …

It seems that even Members of Parliament are subject to censorship.

MPs are prevented from surfing the internet for pornographic and other “inappropriate” material in their Commons offices, it has emerged.
A filter on the Commons IT system blocks access to websites that contain “offensive or illegal content or are sources of malicious software”. (BBC)

All well and good, and as it should be one would think. But it seems that they have deemed the writings of one particular MP as either inappropriate material, or containing offensive or illegal content – Lembit Opik’s …