Michael Michael

I’ll be teaching at Columbia this fall and am considering what the Web site will be for the course. Drupal, Elgg, BuddyPress, Pligg? They’re all good. Not quite sure what I’ll choose but here are some of the ideas we’ll be talking about.

BBC Assailed for Refusing to Carry Gaza Appeal
In more than 80 years as a publicly financed broadcaster with an audience of millions at home and around the world, the BBC has rarely been buffeted as severely as it has in recent days over its decision not to broadcast a television appeal by aid agencies [...]

NewTeeVee runs the numbers and reports that NBC served 75.5 million streams during the Olympics while the BBC had upwards of 200,000 concurrent viewers getting their games on.
Meanwhile, China’s state run CCTV reported to the New York Times that 100 million people accessed video streams on its Web site. Gotta be gold in there [...]