Jim Muttram

The blog Xark has come up with a list of reasons that comments don't work on newspaper sites (for which you can also read "magazine community sites") and some suggestions on how to fix the problem. The main reason for failure is lack of engagement/understanding…

It's Sergey Brin's turn to write the annual Google Founders Letter, a traditional part of Google's annual report. If you have some spare time it makes a great read, reflecting on the past decade and looking forward to some of the developments which Google believes…

The Root of the Matter posts a very lucid account of a lecture on the future of journalism given by Emily Bell, head of digital content at the Guardian. Emily, who is now also a visiting professor at University College Falmouth, said there were clear…

There has been a lot of hype created around the Wolfram/Alpha search engine - brain-child of Stephen Wolfram, inventor and academic. The promise is that the Wolfram/Alpha search engine will provide answers not just links to articles which might provide answers. Will it work? The…

For some reason I've found myself reading E H Gombrich's A Little History of the World and I was struck by this particular passage on the ascendency of the Greeks: Now unlike the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians, these noblemen weren't interested in preserving…