Those Two Media Traditions Keep Getting Closer

Posting earlier on how wages in traditional media are often so low for freelancers that blogging can quickly be an attractive option, this link shows that some of the major newspapers out there are waiting to exploit the trend.

This Rang Alarm Bells Here

The Food and Drug Administration in the USA have fast tracked Gardasil, a vaccine for cervical cancer, produced by US pharmaceutical firm Merck, after a six-month fast-track clinical test. Why it's a worry….

And Privacy Too

I was looking for an online space to protest after reading this (so far I didn't find one): New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.

This is Why Old Media Is Dying

Anybody who thinks utopia is writing in the morning, taking a stroll through the world's afternoon before carousing in the evening, expenses paid, wake up. This is why distortions are hard to keep out of journalism.