Jim Muttram

I've just been reading a great post from Tom Steinberg on mysociety.org outlining his views on what would constitute an internet manifesto for Government. His basic premise is that the arrival of the internet is as important as (but crucially different from) electrification and the…

I've just watched a great presentation by the economist Umair Haque which outlined his principles for economic renewal (thanks to Paul Bradshaw for the link). His argument is that the bull run which followed the industrial revolution is drawing to a close and the next…

"Journalists deserve low pay". That is the incendiary assertion by Robert Picard, professor of media economics at Sweden's Jonkoping University, made at a lecture at Oxford. The statement is bound to get the hackles of journalists everywhere up, but reading the argument carefully he makes…

In a thought-provoking blog post Robert Scoble, once the famed "Microsoft blogger" and now working on a new project for Rackspace called Building 43, tries to look forward to what the web will be like next year. He says he has some thoughts on its…

Tim O'Reilly writes persuasively about the virtues of allowing people to follow you without you being required to follow them back. He calls this "asymmetric follow" or "Twitter-mode". This ability is one of the key advantages that Twitter has over other networks like Facebook and…