This video is 15-odd minutes long, but very much worth watching. It is a fantastic evaluation of why and how blogging, and the entire internet, works and is rising in popularity. It also explains why lolcats
exist.
If you only watch one video online today, make it this one.

via benhuh!com

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Gordon Brown has launched a new gimmick initiative - and an online one at that!
Ask The PM.

Politicians get a chance in prime ministers question time and other question times - I think it’s time the public had a chance.

We have until June 21st to submit questions. So we should all get on our webcams and [...]

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Apparently:

A voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and internet commentators is supported by almost half of all internet users, a survey has claimed.
The researchers said 46 per cent of web users believe bloggers should agree to a set of guidelines which reflected the laws on defamation, intellectual property rights and incitement. (The Telegraph)

First of all: [...]

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It seems that the iPlayer has pissed of internet providers:
A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC.ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to be upgraded to cope…Simon Gunter, from ISP [...]

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Our Google which art in cyberspace,Hallowed be thy domain.Thy search to come,Thy results be done,On my computer as it is in the WWW.Give us this search our daily results.Forgive us our spam, as those that havespammed up against us.And lead us not into infected sites,But deliver us from Trojans.For thine search engine is the greatest,and [...]

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Art by Sean Bonner, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license.

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Uploading Parliamentary debates to YouTube is currently banned. But why?
Why should debates in our Parliament not be “allowed” to be put on YouTube or other video-sharing websites?
I agree completely with Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson when she said:
Parliament should be embracing new technology as a way of reconnecting with the public, so isn’t it about [...]

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Exactly what it says on the tin.
LOLbama.
If you don’t get it, you’re way behind the times.

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Yeah, like this is going to work.
You can hardly “ban” people from the internet. That is absurd in so many ways. And it won’t work, no matter what they do, in this way. By banning - or, rather, trying to ban - “pirates” from the internet they are trying to force the ISPs to police [...]

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