Martin Newland’s new paper for the UAE apparently hasn’t heard of RSS…

"Elements of the popular social networking website Facebook could be blocked to UAE net users next year as part of the telecoms regulator’s rollout of its forthcoming new Internet Penetration Policy (IPP)."

Martin Newland on convergence: "’Badly done, it hits journalism, shuts down bureaux, reduces public interest and sells out in the long term to a short attention span. You create a wider but shallower content pool and your core brand suffers."