What a weird world and what a funny part of it to choose for a forum on the future of the world. The World Economic Forum summit on the Global Agenda is located in a group of hotels by the beach in Dubai.It is my first time in the United Arab Emirate Go to article ...
Was it a storm in a tea-cup or a symbol of a wider malaise at the BBC? Well Polis has got the full, expletive-riddled story from a senior BBC figure.Caroline Thomson is the BBC's Chief Operating Officer, second only in importance at the corporation Go to article ...
It was Apocalypse Now at Polis as the Guardian's digital content director Emily Bell warned of extinction for swathes of UK media in the wake of the Great Crash: We are on the brink of two years of carnage for Western media. In the UK five nationa Go to article ...
It was Apocalypse Now at Polis as the Guardian's digital content director Emily Bell warned of extinction for swathes of UK media in the wake of the Great Crash: We are on the brink of two years of carnage for Western media. In the UK five nationa Go to article ...
Two rays of sunshine cross my otherwise gloomy desk in the last 24 hours. I spend a lot of my time hearing about how the Internet and new media is driving us to hell in a handcart so here are two oddly cheerful anecdotes to counter the pessimism.One Go to article ...
Does new media signal the end of a steady job? Budding multi-skilled BBC video journalist Angela Saini thinks so. On her blog she explains why she is leaving the Corporation to go solo: I was trained by ITN and BBC News to produce, film and edit a Go to article ...
Comedian George Carlin has died. But he lives on at YouTube where countless clips testify to a man who followed in the footsteps of Lenny Bruce.The recent rise of the Evangelical conservatives in America made a lot of people think that the US is a pl Go to article ...