Tobias Escher at the OII

On 19th October the OII had a talk of its former Reuters fellow and current business editor of the BBC News website, Steve Schifferes, with some comparative data on usage of online election news in the US and the UK. The data for the US was based on PEW surveys, while for the UK it [...]

Just in case you have not come across this site yet: Hitwise is a company that provides fascinating data on Internet usage. They are able to provide some rather comprehensive (and possibly more accurate) data as they are cooperating with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and analyse their network traffic If you are interested, they’ve posted [...]

One would probably agree to the statement that the US government feels a certain need to promote its views on the war in Iraq in whatever way possible. One tends to think that should be easier with traditional media where governments have traditionally relied on a variety of tools in order to keep itself some [...]

Yes, you’ve read correctly: Sometimes going through the process of making sure your research meets all ethical standards of Oxford University can be fun – although rather unintentionally I suppose. Take this question from the FAQ of the Central University Research Ethics Committee for example: 7. All the people in my study are dead: do [...]

Apparently today is the start of the “Get Safe Online Week”. It has been the task of an initiative of the government together with BT, Microsoft, Ebay and the likes to remind us of that together with some advertisements for their homepage. I am obviously immensely grateful for that but jokes aside as one usually [...]

Last Friday Andrew McLaughlin in his role as Google’s worldwide policy counsel has given a presentation here at the OII, named Google vs. ?: Challenges to Freedom of Information on a Global Network. There are probably other people here blogging about his talk but here are the main points that caught my attention: In his [...]