Mark Pack

Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...] »

Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...] »

Until earlier this week it would have seemed a good idea to use the day before the final party leaders’ debate to launch the leaders’ answers to YouTube’s Digital Debate questions. Gordon Brown, a live mike and the word “bigot” rather buried the whole story which is a shame as the questions and answers explore [...] »

The news is out today that Twitter is going to start placing adverts at the top of search results. Although Twitter's write-up is full of phrases such as "we've resisted introducing a traditional Web advertising model" and how their approach is "non-traditional" it actually bears a striking resemblance to YouTube's use of 'promoted videos': As [...] »

Richard Osley as an entertaining piece on his blog titled, “The You Tube War: Hornsey and Wood Green”. I’m not quite sure what Lynne Featherstone will make of the description of her as an “old aunt” Not very gallant of you Richard, but the full description is friendly: One of the reasons, Featherstone has been [...] »

I am of course far too young to understand what this is satirising: »

The Guardian reports: A ban on broadcasting video clips of the proceedings of the House of Commons on YouTube could come to an end in the coming weeks after months of delicate negotiations between the Palace of Westminster and broadcasters led by the BBC. Existing rules forbid YouTube or any other website, such as a newspaper’s, from [...] »

There was a little flurry of interest last year as to whether MPs with “MP” in their Twitter name would face a problem after Parliament is officially dissolved for the general election. That’s because after that point technically no-one is an MP and you’re not allowed to call yourself an MP if you aren’t one. That [...] »

The story of how United Airlines broke musician Dave Carroll's guitar was one of the 'business gets a monstering in social media' stories of 2009. Carroll turned the incident into a song that made it big on YouTube, spawning huge traditional media coverage, knocking $180 million off United's share price and highlighting the weaknesses in [...] »

Yesterday we covered an open letter from 25+ Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidates (and see also this comment from ex-MP Richard Allan), expressing concerns over the line the party had taken in the House of Lords on a key part of the Digital Economy Bill. The party’s DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) team [...] »