Mark Kermode isn’t moved by Paranormal Activity

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DIGITAL PLANET By Dave Lee BBC World Service When huge contracts from Disney turn up at your door, you know you’ve made it. That’s how Homeboyz Animation feel. The Nairobi-based team’s top animation skills have won serious acclaim across Africa, and by the end of the year its work will be all over TV networks in the rest of the world.

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When it comes to politics, the internet is just another channel, says Bill Thompson ” The next British General Election will almost certainly be called the first “real” internet election, on the grounds that the “internet election” of 2001 happened when relatively few people had home network connections, while the 2005 poll took place before the social media explosion brought us Facebook, MySpace, and a growing belief that anyone who is tired of Twitter is tired of life. One unfortunate consequence of this will be that anyone who claims a passing acquaintance with the network world will be called upon as a pundit to interpret the parties’ online activity and tell an eager public who is “up” and who is “down” when it comes to internet campaigning

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By Dave Lee BBC World Service “Semantic web technology” is being used to reconnect Colombians displaced in the country’s civil conflict.

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A timeline of some of the key changes to mother and baby during pregnancy. WEEKS 1-9 WEEKS 10-19 WEEKS 20-29 WEEKS 30-birth WEEKS 1-9 In the UK pregnancy is calculated from the first day of the woman’s last period so for as much as three weeks of this first month she might not be actually pregnant.

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The proposed settlement between Google and US publishers must be resisted, argues Bill Thompson ” Google is in the middle of a massive project to scan and digitise every book it can get its hands on, whether old or new, and if it gets its way then the US courts will soon endorse an agreement between the search engine giant and the US book industry that will allow it to do this without fear of prosecution for copyright infringement. Authors and publishers will get some money in return, and we will all benefit from the improved access to digitised books that Google will provide. The deal sounds like a good one, but not everyone is happy with it

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