UPDATE: The Office for National Statistics has also released some data on internet access which paints a more positive picture. Their data puts the numbers who haven’t been online at 18%. And 45% had accessed the web on the move . I’ve just been scanning through the internet section of Ofcom’s latest report on The Communications Market 2010. As always, it’s
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A forthright post over at Boing Boing accuses Ofcom of copping out of their responsibility to sort out just where the burden of proof would fall in the Digital Economy Act’s proposals to disconnect people accused of breaking copyright laws. It’s based on an analysis by the Open Rights Group of Ofcom’s draft code. “Ofcom’s proposal denies us the ability
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I’m sat on a train on the way to the C&binet session at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport looking at the question of what the government should do – if anything – to save local journalism. Here are my notes: The problem is not journalism The vanity of journalists often leads to chest-beating deprecation of modern journalism. While
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Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced that, from next year, “prime-time advertising on public television will be phased out, with the lost revenues to be replaced by taxes collected from internet, mobile phone and commercial broadcasting companies
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