links for 2008-05-02

“England has become a choice venue for libel plaintiffs from around the world, including those who seek to intimidate critics whose works would be protected in the U.S. but might not in that country. That English libel law has increasingly been used to st

The BBC has loads of “podcasts”. Well, of audio files created from radio programmes and put in an RSS wrapper. Here’s an aggregation of them.

“MySpace and Facebook have around 110 million and 60 million active users, respectively. With Yahoo’s stockpile of 500 million users and a virtual warehouse of established brands and services, however, it already has much of the groundwork laid for what c

Video of some of the first online social networkers meeting up in San Francisco.

“And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that’s 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hou