Stephen Tall

Here’s today’s hand-picked selection that caught my interest…

• Without real contrition, press piety leaves me cold
  .@RafaelBehr is correct: press doesn’t deserve pity. But that’s the pt of rights like free speech: they’re universal http://bit.ly/10cqkY0
• Stephen Tall
  It’s my birthday so I’m feeling nostalgic. Started blogging in 2005. Here’s my first website back when I was a cllr http://bit.ly/118GgJY
• Wave goodbye to the World Wide Web, say hello to the worldstreamThe Deep End
  Interesting @ConHome post on how the web’s focusing us on ‘the new’ (which isn’t always the important of course) http://bit.ly/10blDhj
• Carl Minns – Thoughts from Hull: Want to know the really scary thing about yesterday's press regulation debate?
  .@CarlMinns asks: ‘Want to know the really scary thing about yesterday’s press regulation debate?’ http://bit.ly/118Bpbw
• It’s not a press regulator, it’s a web regulator. » Spectator Blogs
  .@NickCohen4 on today’s events >> It’s not a press regulator, it’s a web regulator. » Spectator Blogs http://bit.ly/147Sy9O
• Lib Dems to back independent regulator for Twitter users underpinned by statute | Stephen Tall
  I am a prophet. Kinda. >> Lib Dems to back independent regulator for Twitter users underpinned by statute (Nov 2012) http://bit.ly/Wyh6R4
• The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear | Paleofuture
  Fascinating… “The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear” | Paleofuture http://bit.ly/147R2oj (h/t @timharford)
• It is terrifying how quickly we've slid from a free press to politicians stitching up press regulation – Telegraph Blogs
  I’m even agreeing with @IainMartin1 now: why newspapers & broadcasters are different http://bit.ly/147kBX9
• Amol Rajan: Victim justice is a dangerous way to run newspapers – Comment – Comment – London Evening Standard
  .@AmolRajan puts it well > “Victim justice is a dangerous way to run newspapers” http://bit.ly/Yk2itr