Oliver Postgate RIP... Back when I lectured on film, I always wanted to run a course on Animation and Postgate would have been top of my list of the best. Rest in peace, fond memories…If you’re American this is what he’s all about, one of the British masters of animation and...

Forrester: UK TV & UK Supermarket si... Analyst group Forrester are half-way through their analysis of key UK consumer websites covering 4 sectors, Wireless Providers (Vodafone, BT & O2); Newspapers (The Guardian, Times and Telegraph); Supermarkets (Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco) and finally TV Broadcasters (BBC, Channel 4 and ITV). So...

The work of art in…... The Joseph Sullivan at the NYTimes Book Design Review is running his annual book cover Top 10 for 2008. Noteworthy that 2 old media studies favourites are there in spiffing new covers, Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and McLuhan’s The Medium is the Message. Both...

MySpaceID: Google 1, Microsoft 0... A great post from Rick Turoczy on readwriteweb on the ongoing format login scrap between Facebook and MySpace. Rick comes down firmly in favour of MySpace arguing that their way is more Open and favours interoperability. What’s more he says, MySpaceID: fires a very real shot across Facebook’s...