Big Brother contest rapped again
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A watchdog criticises Big Brother's "golden ticket" contest for the second time in a month for breaking its rules.
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Arts & entertainment: Star reportedly in discussions to perform a special gig for the housemates.
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TV watchdog Ofcom upholds 55 complaints against a live broadcast of a fight on Channel 4 show Big Brother.
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10am: Channel 4 has cancelled tonight's Big Brother eviction vote and will introduce two men to the house. By Mark Sweney.
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Channel 4 has been reprimanded over its handling of alleged racist bullying in Big Brother. Did the broadcaster act irresponsibly?
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After a close competition between the Braintree and Burlington boys' gymnastics teams last week, the stage is set for the teams to battle again in the State Championship Meet tonight at Burlington High.
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The premium phone watchdog says the reality TV show breached its rules by allowing evicted housemates to be voted back in.
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Next year's series of Celebrity Big Brother is being scrapped in the wake of the show's race controversy.
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Big Brother's Nicky Maxwell is the fifth housemate to be evicted from the reality TV show.
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Scottish council attempts to slap cock A Scottish council is pursuing a cock with the threat of an ASBO if it refuses to cap its ear-splitting doodle-dooing.â¦
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php|architect has a new note today about a contest that PHP-Editors is putting on...
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Lifestyle: 17 January 2005, Monday. The only female that made it to the final Big Brother race in Bulgaria will scoop the prize, sources told Sofia News Agency hours before the end of the show.
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By Sean Waisglass and weigh-in pic by Tom Hogan: Can it be done again? When Marco Antonio Barrera, 58-4 (41 KO) and Eric Morales, 47-1 (34 KO), lace &#39;em up for the third time later today, we&#39;re gonna find out.
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Tycho: Some of you have probably already heard it, since I put it up yesterday - but we're trying new hosting for the podcast, and I wanted to make sure everything made sense before I dropped it on the front page. The podcast is for Wednesday's strip, "The Ungift, Part Two." You can download it here, or subscribe to the feed here. The levels are a little crazy in a couple spots, for which I apologize. I think we've got those ironed out, now. (CW)TB
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It's a phone-in vote on phone-in voting There's been a lot of controversy about dubious premium rate phone-ins connected to TV shows this week, but that hasn't stopped Orange setting up a telephone vote for staff to decide whether or not it should sponsor the mother and father of all telephone voting shows - Big Brother.â¦
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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It paid to share the microphone this year. Collaborative efforts ruled the Grammy nominations announced yesterday. Whether it was the duets on senior statesman