Lex Ferenda

(UK) communications regulator Ofcom, flooded with complaints regarding racism* on Channel 4’s “Celebrity” Big Brother 7 (no, you don’t need links to the story!), have responded in a most amusing way. Other than the obvious carefully-worded public statements, what is a complaints body to do in such a situation? Well, they have created [...]

But this week saw the extraordinary case of a Belfast bookseller being taken to court by a disgruntled customer - over a small number of errors in a book he sold her. Former Queen’s University finance student Grainne McElroy was so aggrieved at the mistakes she found in the £46 (€69) academic textbook that she [...]

This weekend sees the release of Stallone’s long-promised Rocky Balboa. And in Dublin on Friday night, around 100 people queued patiently to see Rocky and friends, despite the fact that the place was full, with all 1,200 tickets sold out since the start of the week, and the staff were at pains to point [...]

Congratulations to Kieren McCarthy, who has gone from being one of the few journalists who understands ICANN well enough to write about it, to:
Kieren McCarthy has been appointed to the role of General Manager, Public Participation. The position reports to the Executive Officer and Vice President Corporate Affairs, Paul Levins. The primary responsibility of this [...]