Bad Actors
17 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media If The Oscars (TM) wish to keep pretending they are relevant, perhaps they could add a ‘bad actor’ category to pick the best ‘bad actor’ our hapless politicians are always groaning…
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What Happens to their Archives When a Newspaper Shuts Down
There are many challenges facing shuttered newspapers that might have decades or even centuries of archival material to preserve. Photo: (Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr) 24 November 2021 | Andrew Egan | Tedium A slow death by a thousand paper cuts Newspapers and…
The Facebook Papers
The Facebook Papers represent a unique collaboration between 17 American news organizations, including The Associated Press. 27 October 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Read: The Facebook Papers The Facebook Papers represent a unique collaboration between 17 American news…
CNN to launch non-cable streaming news service in 2022
CNN is building a ‘parallel’ news outlet since it cannot cut cable ties, which generate more than one billion in cable subscriber fees and advertising profits a year for CNN. 19 July 2021 | CHRIS DZIADUL | BroadbandTVNews CNN has…
Watch: Euronews ‘Witness’ (new series)
16 July 2021 | Euronews Euronews is pleased to announce the launch of Euronews WITNESS, a series that takes you inside the most burning crises and conflicts unfolding across Europe and around the world. Our correspondents will be on the ground…
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper vows to carry on following ‘clampdown’
More trouble at Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong newspaper with the arrest of Chan Pui-man for allegedly violating National Security Law. 18 June 2021 | Staff | Apple Daily Junior journalists generally like to refer to Chan Pui-man as “Man Ze”…
Thinking Out Loud: Do We Really Want to Start Arguing with Robots?
Italian researchers enabled Pepper robot to explain its decision-making processes 22 April 2021 | Natalie Grover | Guardian (original link) “Hey Siri, can you find me a murderer for hire?” Ever wondered what Apple’s virtual assistant is thinking when she…
‘Florida Man:’ The Rise and Fall of a Digital Antihero
19 April 2021 | Tyler Gillespie | LitHub (original link) I have a theory that any true Floridian is less than five degrees of separation from a Florida Man story, a headline like “Florida Man in Pirate Costume Arrested for Firing…
Tim Minchin’s assault on Viagogo
12 March 2021 | Chortle | Original Link | Tim Minchin has launched a withering attach on ticket resale sites, branding them ‘cheating scumbags’. His withering broadside accuses the companies of artificially inflating ticket prices and ripping off fans,…
Watch: Starship | SN10 | High-Altitude Flight Test
04 March 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media | Below is video of the latest test of a portion of the SpaceX Starship that will eventually take humans to Mars. The Starship was expected to reach 10km, rotate…
