Blogs Posts on "Media"

Spot the REAL Hypocrites by MacDoctor on Nov 7, 2009I know I am showing my age a bit here, but I can remember the days when newspapers used to report actual news. This is in direct contrast to this morning’s Herald (it certainly is “the weak-end” Herald). We have the mercurial Hone H...

Premiere of GC Profiles: Featured Guest --Peter Slutsky, Co-Founder of DoubleSpeak Media by Gurl About Town on Nov 7, 2009...

Is Your Family Watching Too Much TV? (You’re Not Alone!) by Empowering Parents on Nov 6, 2009A Nielsen Co. reports kids are watching more television than ever and television viewing for children ages 2-11 is the highest since 1995. Kids ages 6-11 watch 28 hours a week with about 4.5 hours on DVD. And worse, kids age 2-5 are watching 32 h...

LRB’s Greatest Hits by The Third Estate on Nov 6, 2009As the London Review of Books celebrates its 30th birthday today, JW Arble picks out six of his favourites from the new online archive Until I read Stefan Collini’s essay on the state of British universities I didn’t know what they were for, why...

Gay marriage loses in Maine: the campaign finance scorecard by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 6, 2009On Nov. 3, 299,483 citizens of the state of Maine were persuaded to tell women who love women and men who love men that they cannot marry. Those Downeasters who voted “Yes” on Question 1 — to repeal a same-sex marriage law — bashed ga...

Local Blog impact on Local Democracy: Somerton Town Council by The Wardman Wire on Nov 6, 2009Local Bloggers are beginning to produce a few good examples of effective scrutiny of Local Councils. In this piece David Keen, who is a Vicar in Yeovil and writes regularly for my Wardman Wire political site, gives an account of a local controversy i...

Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media) by Web-Work At Home on Nov 6, 2009Continue Reading... Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media) Thanks' for Subscribing to my RSS feed, if you have any suggestions or questions then please drop me a line or comment. Express Y...

Round-Up: Question Time Comes To Town! by Reading List on Nov 6, 2009It's always causes a stir of excitement when TV provides a forum for recognisable public figures to go head-to-head in confrontation.Although this week's event was no competition for the recent controversy caused by the appearance of BNP leader Nick...

IIC Annual Conference 2009 Montreal Canada by Gurl About Town on Nov 6, 2009Ian McCulloch discusses the need for regulatory change and in particular the future of content regulation and the public service broadcasting system...