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Denis Dutton and Arts and Letters Daily: the authority of the aggregator and the shift in power from information to meaning

Denis Dutton, founder and editor of Arts and Letters Daily, has died. His daily selection of reading material was a remarkable work in itself and has much to teach web and media watchers about where true value is created online

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 1 Jan 2011

The Murdoch debate: What next?

The EU is expected to clear NewsCorp's bid to acquire all of BSkyB this week. David Elstein gives his account of an LSE debate on Murdoch's empire and the bid, which he led alongside editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger.

By David Elstein

/ 21 Dec 2010

Au revoir, Iain Dale

Britain's leading Conservative blogger has called it a day and moved on to be a publisher and broadcaster, leaving active party politics. What does it mean?

By Anthony Barnett

/ 14 Dec 2010

If you rule by code you will fall by code: the philosophy of Wikileaks

Diplomatic protocols and Internet protocols share rules but differ in their purpose. When the hacker ethic is applied to social code, as Wikileaks does, the result is good for democracy

By Luis de Miranda

/ 14 Dec 2010

Berlusconi’s politics of an eternal present

Berlusconi dictates an idea of the eternal present based upon a model of eternal youth and embodied in the narcissistic cult of the self. But there is a democratic affirmation of the individual that can replace this with a narrative that builds our collective future

By Emanuele Toscano

/ 12 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks and democracy

The Robin Hoods of the net challenge the culture of secrecy that has major states in its grip - and thus perform a service to democracy, says Patrice de Beer.

By Patrice de Beer

/ 9 Dec 2010

If Assange is a spy, then so am I

The job and duty of journalists is to expose lies and their consequences. Julian Assange has shown that one does not need to be a journalist to help. That does not make him a spy.

By Mark Lee Hunter

/ 6 Dec 2010

Is it time for Murdoch's empire to be reined in?: A fascinating debate on News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB

Is this the moment to halt the expansion of Richard Murdoch's media empire in the UK? An OurKingdom post, which presents the media mogul's bid for full ownership of the country's most powerful commercial broadcaster as a threat to our democracy, has sparked an urgent debate between the author, Oli

By Niki Seth-Smith

/ 2 Dec 2010

Take Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves

We should not mourn the passing of the newspaper or the decline of public service broadcasting, but ask instead what function they performed and look to see whether we are in need of a similar system in the new world. If there is no niche to fill then we should pause before we try to create one in

By Bill Thompson

/ 2 Dec 2010

Student Power: 1968... 2010

Is a student movement starting in England in opposition to the Government's cuts and marketisation of higher education? If so, how does it compare to the first student movement in the late 1960s? A veteran reflects.

By Anthony Barnett

/ 27 Nov 2010

Egyptian blogs: reporting the news unfit to print

The Egyptian blogosphere has gained real influence in the political process

By Bijan Kafi

/ 26 Nov 2010

Authentic journalism: weapon of the people

The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.

By Al Giordano

/ 19 Nov 2010