Friday, September 18th, 2009

Google’s “real-time hack”

The tech world is abuzz with the news that there is a not-so secret URL hack to change a normal Google search string into a near-live search.  Which is exciting because it makes a Google search like Twitter! And we know how much the media loves Twitter.  Trouble is, the reports all seem to rely […]

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Murdoch good, BBC bad

For all his BBC connections, culture secretary Ben Bradshaw says the BBC has got too big for its boots and that News Corp boss James Murdoch raised “legitimate questions and […] genuine concerns” about its range and influence in his MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival last month. Could this have anything to do […]