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It's a strange thing that despite newspapers having recognised the Internet as absolutely vital to their future, the childish and laughably arrogant feeling among many print journalists is that somehow because something is on the Internet, it is less kosher and subsequently they are entitled to steal it and pretend that they came up […]

The man who stole Sex.com, made at least $100m, fought tooth-and-mail for five years but eventually lost in court and then fled the United States, Stephen Michael Cohen, has been arrested in Tijuana and handed over to US immigration.
This is extraordinary, and an amazing twist.
I have been following the Sex.com case […]

The Internet's biggest company, VeriSign, has come to agreement with Internet overseeing organisation ICANN after years of highly damaging legal battles.
You can read all about it on both ICANN's website and VeriSign's too.
Basically, VeriSign will finally accept that ICANN has authority over it - something that is long overdue and has had […]

It's kicked off again. Senator Norm Coleman was never going to take his utter humiliation by George Galloway lying down.
As chairman of the US Senate Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations, he quizzed Galloway in May over Iraqi oil-for-food allegations. Expecting deference, Galloway instead went piling in and made a complete fool […]

There are two types of people when it comes to thinking about politics.
One group, given the slightest opportunity, will rant and rave about crooked politicians and how dreadful it all is and how they can't be trusted. They won't do bugger all about it though.
And the second group recognises that there […]

Blogware - the people hosting this blog - have added a rather good “comment verification” feature, meaning you have to type in the letters as they appear in a weird box - example below.

What this means is that people can't automate spamming to my blog - something that is often done to […]

And here's the flipside of my “This is the value of professional journalism” - an example of such poor-quality journalism that you wonder what the point of it all is.
Unknown to nearly everyone outside the media world, there is an ongoing battle between journalists and so-called public relations people (aka PRs). It's very […]

Okay, this is really good news. Despite my reservations about the new video iPod - particularly the fact that Jobs' obsession with making it small has given it a ridiculous two-hour battery life - it turns out that Apple has fixed my main bugbear with all iPods - recording quality.
It is hard-wired into […]

I can't believe I missed this - a right old tear-up on Radio 4's MidWeek progamme between Darcus Howe and Joan Rivers.
Actually I can believe it. MidWeek (which follows the best daily news outlet on radio, TV, print or Web, the Today programme) at 9am is usually so incredibly drab that I leap […]

And here was me just thinking that the one thing that marked out this particular Conservative Party leadership contest - the fourth in eight years - was that the dreadful haunting presence of Mad Maggie Thatcher hadn't appeared.
And she hasn't appeared. Mostly because, aged 80 and very frail, she hasn't been *able* to […]