Big party in London for all us new media types. Should be a blast. More info here and link to buying tickets here.

Yes indeed people. Who needs reporters, editors, fact-checkers and libel lawyers in the age of the new gonzo journalism! Just grab a blog and go! And while you’re at it, forget this lame explanation, and head on over to this handy guide to the New Journalism.

The Red Herring is coming back to Europe. Four years after deserting the UK, it will distribute a weekly (!) magazine here once more. More info on it’s PR “Top100” style push here. So, either we’re in the grip or another bubble or the tech market has decided to come back. Prepare yourself for those navel-gazing Herring articles on bio-tech and mobile…. No more Tony Perkins though. He’s now at

Just a week left to enter your blog in The Imperatives.

It’s no wonder Jon Stewart is IWantMedia’s Media Person of the Year. His performance on CNN’s Crossfire is pure gold. For once a news show guest in the US acts like it’s a real news show that requires honest answers. Can someone not do this to Jeremy Paxman one day? Better still, David Frost…

Here: “Sold! Blogs give way to marketers“

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I once sat opposite famous journalist and editor Rosie Boycott at a business industry lunch, organised to discuss the issue of access to broadband for the British people. This was about three years ago when the issue was really quite political. People were generally concerned that lack of broadband access was was going to leave whole swathes of the UK population languishing in a primordial narrowband soup. In the end

Comedian Mark Steel, whose mere lectures are better than anything Michael Moore will ever produce, simply MUST start a blog. That’s all there is to it. Trotskyite or not, his presentation of not only history but contemporary politics is hilarious, but utterly cutting in it’s insight.

WSJ: “Just a few years ago, as dot-com companies started to tank, many analysts had predicted that some free Web content and tools would disappear or dwindle. “Free is certainly making a huge comeback these last 12 to 18 months,” says Olivier Travers, a technology consultant in the U.K. who in March 2001 launched a blog, theendoffree.com, chronicling the move to fee-based services from free.”