As recorded here, I started Tweeting a bit less than a fortnight ago. (Handle is @francismoran, if you’d like to follow me.) Today, I want to come up for air as I barely tread water in the Twitterstream and share a few first impressions. 1. Twitter is the most addictive thing since crystal met...

Windows only: You've got a hard drive filled with media, but no idea what you want to watch or listen to next. Pick Me produces a list of random files for you to choose from. Pick Me is a really, truly tiny application (about 122k) with a singular function. You point Pick Me at a directory and it re...

Some nice chart porn from CNN Money: > > Source: Unemployment hits 25-year high Chris Isidore, Jobless rate hits 8.1% in February as a record-high 12.5 million people are unemployed. CNNMoney.com senior writer March 6, 2009: 9:01 AM ET http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/06/news/economy/jobs_february...

Download to Computer, iPhone, or iPod If you are curious to know whether the video industry is at the threshold of “Napsterization� much like the record label business was ten years ago, this video is for you. It is hard to believe that it was fully ten years ago that Shawn Fanning unleashed Nap...

Suppose the iPod Touch had a fully functioning browser along with Bluetooth connectivity. Such a device could connect to a flat-panel TV and display HD video on the TV screen. The on-board WiFi of the Touch would connect to the home network and thence to the Internet. Thus users could watch any Inte...

A k�an (公案 ) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement generally containing aspects that are inaccessible to rational understanding, yet nonetheless may be accessible to intuition. This is a k�an on the changing shape of the media business, with an emphasis on "business" (as in a ...

One of the interesting things about pan-New Media events like Amplified '09 is you get to talk to some interesting people you'd otherwise never meet - so thats how a digital strategy and back end infrastructure wonk like me gets to meet a songstress, Lobelia Sabo, with a voice that's almost heaven (...

Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist. The startling warning from Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmac...

The second week of Pirate Bay vs Sweden is upon us, and what will it bring? Pirate ship. Photograph: mikebaird/Flickr/Some rights reserved Firstly, some great lists. TorrentFreak , which has been excelling itself with comprehensive coverage of the trial, follows up on  comments by co-defendant ...

The news cycle spins fast and flimsy these days. Late Friday night, TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumour that CBS-owned Last.fm handed a "giant dump" of user data to the RIAA. The music org was said to have requested the data, which could be used to find users who are listening to as-yet-unreleased...