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Ashley's rants

What Engadget's redesign tells us about the state of commercial blogging

So which is the most powerful and influential blog network in the world? Well there are two contenders, the brit owned New York based Gawker media and Weblogs Inc, which for all intents and purposes these days is AOL. And...more

Ashley's rants

The UK's top Twitterers - the ones who really put the hours in

I finally got round to doing something I have been threatening to do for ages and that is produce a list of the UK's top Twitterers (or is it Tweeters?). Except that this list takes no account of number of...more

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Ashley leaves Shiny, becomes roadie?

There are fewer moments in life that have given me as much pleasure as writing the first story on TechDigest. Not that the post was groundbreaking journalism, a contender for the Pulitzer prize or even completely free of typos (ouhc!)....more

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A BBC blogger we love

Ok, so we might have had a bit of run in with Panorama the other week, but most of us here at Shiny do actually love the Beeb, we just wish that its bloggers and journalists would link out more....more

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BBC screws British bloggers (again)

Over the past few years I have grown ever more incredulous about the way that the BBC has consistently stolen from, patronised and generally belittled blogs, especially British ones. There seems to be a pervading belief within Shepherd's Bush that...more

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Shiny Media - the top UK director on YouTube, * err, apart from the BBC and ITV

Ok, so we are actually number three. But ahead of us are two huge TV corporations - one of which we actually help fund - who spend millions of pounds on video content every year. We spend less than the...more

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