As reported in the Times, and followed up by CrunchGear, the Government here in the UK is considering forcing ISPs to take action against any of their users who are downloading copyrighted material. This is how the proposal will work (from the CrunchGear article): Users “suspected” of having illegally downloaded something will get an e-mail [...]

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Splashcast, the site where users can create their own media channels using pretty much any media they like – video, photos, audio, text, PDF documents, and even Powerpoint presentations – has announced today that, among the new features, their latest Splashcast player offers inline posting to Twitter. To show you this in action, I’ve embedded [...]

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That Viacom is suing GooTube for $1bn is old news – a great opening shot in the negotiating battle to come, but old news. The thing I don’t get is, why would Viacom bother? One of the podcasts I listen to is Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. On each episode, he plays (at least) a [...]

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