Let’s Watch Twitter Become FriendFeed
It seems the hot Twitter news of the day is that the service might be slowing in U.S. growth. You can read the Twitter stats story on Mashable and TheNextWeb. Earlier in the week the big news for the so-called social media experts was the on and off...

A world Test championship can be established by an appeal to greed | Dileep Premachandran
Opposition from India and England must be overcome to give the Test game its pinnacleIt's been nearly half a century since four mop tops from Liverpool told us, "'Cause I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love". That's certainly...

Baby P one year on: local child abuse and care statistics
Where has the highest number of sexual abuse cases? How many children get taken into care? These are the latest figuresIt is twenty years since the government passed the 1989 Children Act and one year since Baby Peter's killers were convicted. Judging...

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...

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...