These are my links for February 5th through February 7th:

• Charlie Brooker | iPad therefore iWant? Probably. Why? iDunno – Probably the only post to read on the storm-in-an-iT-Cup that is the launch of the iPad, yet another shiny-shiny gadget from Apple which has made the elusive marketing leap from a gizmo to a life-changing-experience. As someone who just doesn't do Apple at all – and prefer proleterate and less expensive devices like the PC and Nokia, this speak to me. "It's an iPhone for people who can't be arsed holding an iPhone up to their face. A slightly-further-away iPhone that keeps your lap warm."
• BBC – Media Literacy – I came across this BBC microsite whilst watching the BBC's new 'soap bubble' online drama E20 (a spinoff from Eastenders). The site gives a few video based resources for younger people to undertand the idea of media literacy – including clips from Screenwipe an a interview with teen digital ambassador 'JellieEllie' (I met her years ago, not really sure what to make of what she does now). E20, the BBC are hyping as a 'game changer' as being a significant budget online drama. I disagree – it's a great piece of drama, but as the Controllers interviewed say, the rules of storytelling are the same on the web as TV. I'd like to see the BBC invest in a REALLY innovative interactive drama that does make use of the online medium – E20 is just telly on the web, designed to be packaged back to be telly on the telly. The videos aren't event commentable and embeddable. Channel 4 do some more interesting content for teens in this space like Smokescreen.
• Tories challenge BT and BBC as part of ‘100MB broadband’ pledge – Zip. Pains me to type this, but here's another very good electioneering policy from the boys in blue: they want to speed up broadband to 100Mb by 2017 by breaking up BT monopoly, which puts crippling prices onto accessing broadband at super high speeds. As far as I'm concerned, this couldn't happen sooner.