Sheffield Doc/Fest's pick of the pics | David Cox
A sterling year has wrapped with a raft of new trophies – the finest of the winners amply demonstrate what documentaries can do better than anything elseThis year, Sheffield Doc/Fest beefed up its awards schedule with a raft of well thought out new...

So who has been the best cricketer in the past 10 years? | Andy Bull
I've become fascinated to the point of obsession by a question of such incomprehensible triviality and unimportance. Please helpI blame Boycott. It is his fault. His fault that I can't sleep. There is a worm wriggling around inside my mind. It squirms...

Is this the end of the line for the impartial documentary? | David Cox
At Sheffield Doc/Fest, a heated debate that pitched campaigning documentary features against films as impartial documents has thrown the future of the form in sharp reliefThis year, the normally clubby atmosphere of Sheffield's documentarists'...

How to Friday: Pachube, sensors and augmented reality
Pachube will host live data feeds from energy, environment and other sensors. The service opens a wide range of possibilities to collect and richly display your own data.When I was doing research for my post on home energy monitors, I stumbled upon a...

Stalking Tarkovsky at the Sheffield Doc/Fest
In the second of his diaries from the Sheffield DocFest, David Cox reports on a new documentary that lifts the lid on the troubled gestation of Tarkovsky's sci-fi masterwork, StalkerTo mark its 75th birthday, the BFI asked 75 lofty figures which one...

The view: Which movie would you want to live in?
Sometimes, a film's design creates a world you wish you could simply step into. For me, it's the dark opulence Otto Preminger conjured up for Laura. Now, over to youThe demented vistas of Ken Russell; the stinking, claustrophobic U-boat horror of Das...

Enough is Enough…Stop Blaming Wordpress
For over a decade I was responsible for posting financial documents either online or, before the Internet, to a variety of reporting sources. One thing was absolutely clear…post early and it won’t be pretty. Financial documents have associated post...

Ubuntu 9.10 v Windows 7
Canonical will release the latest version of the open-source operating system Ubuntu this Thursday, and we look at how it stacks up against Windows 7Windows 7: like Vista, but goodApple let Snow Leopard out of its cage earlier this autumn, and Canonical...

The internet at 40: how Arpanet laid the foundations
Forty years ago, a simple message was sent between two Californian research labs and a net was bornThe internet at 40: full coverageToday is the internet's 40th birthday. Well, not exactly the internet but Arpanet – the Pentagon-funded research...

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Our top 10 funniest YouTube comments – what are yours?
It's three years since Google bought YouTube, and since then its dedicated army of commenters have developed a language of their own. Here are our favourite comments – add yours belowThree years ago this month, a fledgling company called YouTube was...