Thank You For Smoking is one of the funniest films I’ve seen for a long while — with added bonus of the main character being a PR guy. As the IMDB puts it: “ A satirical comedy that follows the machinations of Big Tobacco’s chief
spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes…

MediaShift . Our Voyeuristic World::Are We Sharing Too Much Information via Social Media? | PBS.

Good piece from Jennifer Woodard Maderazo — especially this comment:

As reported here by the BBC.

An inevitable move I guess — LastFM has clearly been courted by numerous media companies for some time. There have been the odd cries of “sell out” from some LastFM users — but most seem to be giving this a cautious welcome…

The Economist has just launched a a full audio edition of the weekly mag. Clearly a lot of resource is going into this. On first inspection, the entire content of the print mag is being repurposed for audio — seems to involve an army of…

TWL recently kicked off a little round robin to pull together a joint entry for the British Computer Society short story competition — only needs a few more words to get it finished. I make a cameo appearance — I should point that this is a…