9th May-End of May

Music/Internet:
EMI strikes deal with Youtube to allow its videos to be accessed (31st May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6709209.stm

Music/Internet:
An article on how the music industry is targetting fan lyric sites as a fresh source of revenue (31st May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2091904,00.html

Music/Internet:
US TV network CBS buys the social networking music site Last.fm for £140m (31st May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2091608,00.html

Internet:
Jaron Lanier's essay on 'Digital Maoism', critiqueing claims of 'collective intelligence' (e.g. in Wikipedia) (30th May): http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html

Internet:
Online music retailer CD Wow! is fined £41m for illegally importing cut-price discs (30th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2090883,00.html

Television:
An outcry over a Reality TV win-a-kidney competition (29th May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm The show was later revealed to be a hoax (2nd June): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6714063.stm See also a defence of Reality TV recently published by Sebastian Doggart (27th May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/bigbrother/story/0,,2088919,00.html

'Digital Divide':
Ofcom survey finds the 'digital divide' is closing (25th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2087706,00.html

Television:
Australian Reality TV show Big Brother is criticised for deciding not to tell a contestant that their father had died (25th May): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6690289.stm

Security/Surveillance
Police force tests airborne spy camera (22nd May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2085190,00.html (not such a new idea, Judge Dredd in UK comic 2000AD had spy-in-the-sky cameras in the 1970s-80s!)

Mobile Phones/Internet:
Spinvox to let bloggers send posts from their mobile phones (21st May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2084198,00.html

Internet/Video games:
An article on how two more news companies (Sky news and 4 Radio) are setting up a media presence in Second Life (21st May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2084073,00.html

Internet:
An article on the development of a Chinese version of Myspace (20th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2083984,00.html

Internet:
On the web activity over the abduction of Madeleine McCann (19th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2083277,00.html

Internet:
BT becomes Britain's biggest broadband provider, passing Virgin (formerly NTL) (18th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2082617,00.html

Internet/War:
Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar on Estonia (17th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2081512,00.html
Estonia says 1m computers used as part of an ongoing denial-of-service cyberwar against it (18th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2082584,00.html

Television:
Problems with 'old' media - ITV revenues and ratings continue to slide (18th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2082464,00.html

Internet:
'Google takes search to next level' (18th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2082459,00.html

Internet/Video games:
An interview with Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life (17th May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,2081663,00.html

Internet:
An article on the take-off of Twitter (17th May): http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2080761,00.html

Music:
MPs back call to extend copyright to 70 years (17th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2081245,00.html

Music/Internet:
Amazon set to launch a music download store (17th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2081290,00.html

Internet:
Tories remove 'sexiest female mp' thread from David Cameron's web forum (17th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,2081268,00.html

Mobile Phones:
An article on the mobile entertainment revolution (15th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile/article/0,,2079818,00.html

Internet/Print/War:
US Iraq veteran wins prize for best book based on a blog at the same time as the US military clamps down on military blogging (15th May): http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,2079660,00.html

Music/Internet:
Fans rally round Lily Allen after she posts blog entry complainig of feeling 'fat and ugly' (15th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2079713,00.html

Television/Internet:
The BBC is caught out in a documentary on Scientology when the Church videos the journalist's interview and posts footage of him losing his temper on Youtube before the documentary is screened - so new media are again being used against 'Big Media' power (14th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2078840,00.html see also (13th May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,,2078517,00.html

Television:
An article on problems with the BBC's new media strategy (14th May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2079046,00.html

Television:
An article on the future of TV - 'Anytime? Anywhere? Sooner than you think' (13th May): http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2078310,00.html

Internet/Crime:
A gambler who tried to sell his kidney in a chat room to pay off debts receives a suspended sentence (12th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/gambling/story/0,,2078157,00.html

Internet/Video games:
'Google may use games to analyse net users' (12th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2077901,00.html

Television:
An article on Virgin's problems in its war with Sky (10th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2076131,00.html

Internet:
Gina Ford wins out of court settlement and apology over offensive web postings on mumsnet (10th May):http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2076038,00.html

Internet:
A new online 'encyclopedia of life' will catalogue all life on earth (10th May): http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2076199,00.html

DVDs:
An article on our changing home-viewing habits (10th May): http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2075992,00.html

Security:
HBO exec wants to rename DRM 'digital enablement management' (1oth May): http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1156

Internet:
Paris Hilton asks fans to sign an online petition to commute her 45 day prison sentence (9th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2075305,00.html

Internet/Video games:
Second Life in virtual child sex scandal (9th May): http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2075340,00.html

Future Technology:
From April, a story about stacked chips improving computer processing speeds (12th April): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6548365.stm