John Barrowman item et seq, The Now Show, Series 25, Episode 2, BBC Radio 4 Hats off to BBC Radio 4's The Now Show for, er, raising the issue of John Barrowman's invisible appendage last Friday evening (6:30pm, 5th December)...

Talk about ugly... for some reason US screen graphics are often garish, overcomplex and hard to read in my view. Look at this example from MSNBC this morning....

Last night found me glued to the BBC News US Election coverage on the BBC website until I dragged myself away at 3am, with Ohio called for Obama and Virginia undeclared. I was watching both the live TV feed and...

Brand has resigned; Ross probably ought to consider doing something similar himself. The pre-recording of edgy comedy programmes is a great way to make sure that the wrong thing doesn't go out – but someone needs to keep an eye...

I'm not a fan of either Ross or Brand; I have no comment on the question as to whether or not they are overpaid; and I certainly think that the messages on Mr Sachs's answering machine were ill-advised – and...

I've talked about this issue before, but as it keeps coming up, perhaps it's time to talk about it again. It is commonly assumed that for the media to be balanced, they must needs simply give equal time to the...

As someone who remains of the opinion that what the British Government did in the years 1945-51 to establish major post-war institutions (despite the country being nearly bankrupt) was brilliant and that we should have the same approach to current...

Despite the fact that Cory Ondrejka works for EMI, he knows more about what's really going on in the music industry than almost anyone else.

For Google's 10th anniversary, you can search the web as it was in 2001.

Can you imagine how much time we wasted watching TV - and what we could now be doing instead?

Can you imagine how much time we wasted watching TV - and what we could now be doing instead?

Once again, a sizeable proportion of online users are being discriminated against by on-demand programme providers: this time by Five's TV-on-demand service Demand Five. If they were visually impaired, for example, this discrimination would probably be illegal - but...

COO of BSkyB, Mike Darcey, writing in the Royal Television Society journal Television (Vol. 45:6, July 2008 p12), reckons Ofcom – and many of the rest of us – are all asking the wrong question about the future of Public...

Of course, as everyone might expect, there was enormous demand for the iPhone 3G when it came out earlier in the week: it's obviously an excellent product with several of the features that people wanted added to the new...

On the internet, news travels too quickly

On the internet, news can sometimes travel too fast

If you, like me, are an avid BBC Four viewer, you might have seen the extremely cool trailer for the recent Mediaeval (oh, sorry, we are spelling it the American way now, "Medieval") Season (a not very good YouTube...

So here we are in this new media world. We download our music and give it to our friends, so the musicians who make it don't get any income. We write our blogs and splatter our opinions all over the...

As if GCap Media's stance on DAB was not obvious enough already, listeners to Classic FM who have not been blasted or lulled into inattention by the ads in the run-up to the news at the top of the hour...

So here we are in this new media world. We download our music and give it to our friends, so the musicians who make it don't get any income. We write our blogs and splatter our opinions all over the...

UK's world-class astronomy project faces closure Turning a blind eye to a magic kingdom of marvellous things For arch Government stupidity there can be few more stunning examples than the threat to close not only Jodrell Bank radio telescope -...

eSkeptic: Journalist-Bites-Reality! – How broadcast journalism is flawed in such a fundamental way that its utility as a tool for informing viewers is almost nil. I'm in the process of reading Andrew Keen's book The Cult of the Amateur, in...

For an extended version of this article, click here. It was bad enough that the BBC's iPlayer excludes tens of thousands of licence-payers by being Windows-only. Now Classic FM, the UK's most popular commercial radio station, has done the self-same...

I've been a technology journalist of one sort or another since 1974, and in my view there are two fundamental requirements for the job: an ability to write, of course, but also an ability to research. You really need to...

Eliot (right) and Carolyn's on-screen 'avatar'. BBC copyright. Wednesday (Tuesday in Scotland) saw the latest in a new documentary strand, Wonderland, on BBC2. This week it was "Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love" and was billed as follows: "Carolyn is a...