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You can put what I know about advertising (digital or otherwise) on the head of a pin. But I was invited to this “think tank” by these nice people a few weeks ago. So in return I’m linking to their video. Digital Advertising for a Digital Britain: A Think Tank brought to you by VideoEgg from VideoEgg on Vimeo.

The culmination of more than a year’s work on boosting a “Digital Britain” was published on Friday as the UK government put forward legislation to tackle illegal file sharing and abuse of internet domain names, protect local news provision and add age ratings to video games. However,... Financial Times - Government lays plans for next file-share crackdown

Time to leave this bone alone and do some proper work, but I can't resist noting the Digital Britain's team responses to criticisms, having been directed towards it by the Beeb. As it happens, despite the impression the BBC gives, these responses date from the summer so should hardly be regarded as the current BIS last word ...

Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: What does and should the digital future hold for Britain? Those were the issues addressed by Conservative Shadow Culture ... in this video report via YouTube: Related posts:Digital exclusion: how tough a problem is it to crack? Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: The issue of digital exclusion...Orange: The Future of Politics Last week, Orange launched their ...

Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively change the law at will with little to no oversight. Basically, it would let the Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, change copyright law through secondary legislation, which requires no Parliamentary approval. ...

BBC – “Some of the biggest names on the web have written to Peter Mandelson to express “grave concerns” about elements of the Digital Economy Bill. Four firms including Facebook and Google object to clause 17 of the bill, which could give government the power to amend copyright law in the future.”

... include forcing companies like BT to open up their ‘digital ducts’ for competitors to use to pipe their product to ... He showed how spending on new material is dropping in the UK amongst the digital industries and the danger is that we will fall behind in what is now an entirely global market. ... ;Jeremy+Hunt+previews+Tory+view+of+Digital+Britain'; addthis_pub = 'polismedia&# ...

... of the problem is that they don’t understand a lot of the issues. See, for example, this sharp Media Blog account of last night’s Polis Seminar on Digital Britain. Speakers at the event included Culture Secretary-in-waiting Jeremy Hunt. And what did we learn from the man who will surely assume control of the UK media following the ...

... risk stifling innovation and damaging the Government’s vision for a Digital Britain.” Specifically, they are urging that he remove Clause 17 ... creative content. “The industry as a whole had hoped that the outcome of Digital Britain would be a clear, workable set of principles by ... and puts at risk the UK’s leading position in a digital Europe.” Stay tuned. jared@zeropaid. ...