Blog: Revolution postscript

Firstly, although Rev. plans to continue updating its site for news (as Media Guardian’s Owen Gibson confirms), it surely can’t justify the manpower investment without a weekly magazine to support it. Which means probably just a couple of hacks tapping out press-release re-writes to keep things ticking over. So which site will win the lion share of Rev’s existing traffic when it drops down a gear? NMA – an obvious

P2P shows way forward

The problem is down to the Internet’s success. The sheer weight of numbers online means that streaming audio and video using the paid-for, legitimate, server-driven likes of RealPlayer and MediaPlayer means greater costs for rights holders. That RealNetworks is desperate to hack its way out of this problem was highlighted recently when the media leviathan released most of the source code to its software. The move is designed to make

Oldies go where youths fear to tread

The event was BeyondBricks.com, the British government’s DTI-sponsored initiative to energise the flagging internet industry, and two sages of the London scene were holding forth. The "Beyond Bricks" phrase refers to the term "clicks and mortar", coined to describe the marriage of the internet with traditional business. It was allegedly minted by Microsoft researcher Kevin Scholfield or David Pottruck, co-chief executive at Charles Schwab in 1999, depending on whether you