Also in the news today...
In a move not dissimilar to the BBC's launch of Backstage a little while back, The Guardian has announced that it will be opening up some of its back-end as part of the Open Platform project.
Nielsen's evidence of the rise and rise of social networking has been making headlines everywhere. Here's Hypebot's brief take on it.
A UK gov campaign aimed at getting parents to take their kids' health a little more seriously has provoked a storm of protest from the UK games industry for a pretty daft poster portraying a kid sitting on a sofa, clutching (a barely disguised) PS controller under the headline Risk an Early Death, Just Do Nothing.
Rory-Cellan Jones has interviewed Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey about Little Big Planet for the BBC's excellent dot.life blog.
U2 go from intellectual strength to strength by, to all intents and purposes, ditching their relationship with Apple because of their indirect investment in the Palm Pre. The regular reader will be unsurprised to learn that Bob Lefsetz is pretty amusing on the matter.
Lord Carter has announced the launch of a Digital Rights Agency to help the digital media industry sort out ownership and distribution issues and "combat illegal file sharing". Somehow or other.
Oh, and follow-ups on the YouTube/PRS fall-out... The Guardian asks whether MySpace will be next... and the Times has dusted off a story from January, in which the PRS's pursuit of public performance licence revenue seemed to be getting a little, er, heavy-handed.
Simon
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