A tectonic shift is taking place in our culture, namely the transition from a print/broadcast era in which information, opinion and entertainment is transmitted down a pyramidal social structure, to a pro forma egalitarian web culture in which there is no longer the mediation of a class of editors and opinion-formers, but instead everyone swims ( Read more... )

But I can't sleep until I confess.

I actually really like that Eurovision Jedward song. And if I'm not wildly mistaken they were sort-of-maybe-possibly quite good?

It's all very odd. Probably something to do with that apocalypse that's supposed to happen next Saturday. And if Jedward win the Eurovision is that another sign of the End Times?

"It is obscure, unfair and expensive," Mr Cameron said of the AV system ( Read more... )