Jim Muttram

Jim Muttram

Either...or games

Charles Moore, former editor of the Telegraph, interviewed Tory leader David Cameron and played the either...or game with him - with interesting results.  Red or white? Red Bitter or lager? Bitter Meat or fish? Meat Town or country? Country Or again.... Star Trek or Dr…

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Jim Muttram

Google's mobile vision

Wired has a story about a patent filed by Google which envisages handsets which automatically poll wireless providers (including wi-fi and wi-max) for the lowest price before connecting. There's a long way to go, and a lot of vested interests in the way, but it's…

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Jim Muttram

The problem with lies and half-truths

Jeff Javis writes a thoughtful post responding to the blanket criticism of "citizen journalists" following the false story of Steve Jobs' "heart attack" on CNN's iReport. The main problem isn't with citizen journalism, he says, but with credulous readers (and that isn't a new problem).

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Jim Muttram

In difficult times...

With t&e budgets likely to be slashed around the world next year some enterprising bloggers have come up with a novel idea: free conferences on the web. They have collected (curated if you like) what they consider to be the best free presentations around a…

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