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Limbering up for the ParalympicsSeptember 16: The stain drug abuse scandals left on the Summer 2004 Olympic Games in Athens has now seeped into the 12th Paralympic Games. A day before the opening ceremony in Athens, Canadian sprinter and top Paralympic athlete Earle Connor is out of the games after testing positive for two banned substances. Whether it is a success or failure, the Paralympic Games is unlikely to garner the same kind of media coverage as its able-bodied equivalent. Despite the US team's dominance of the medal tables, no broadcast organisations in the USA have bought broadcasting rights from the International Paralympic Committee to air the games on American television. Although the first Paralympic Games took place in Rome in 1960, Britain claims the title of the 'Athens' of the Paralympic movement: the first games for disabled athletes took place in 1948 in Stoke Mandeville, England.Britain is hoping to bring the Paralympics back to its roots and to London in 2012, which should help the GB team to surpass their earlier successes.· Rosheen KabrajiEditor: MyselfSeptember 15 blog pick: Hossein Derakhshan's weblog always provides an insight into the burgeoning world of Iranian blogs, but the last couple of days have been particularly fascinating. He reports on a crackdown on Iranian reformist websites and a fascinating poll finding that the internet is Iranians' most trusted medium.·Jane PerroneBlog no moreSeptember 15: Belle de Jour is giving up blogging, it seems, to spend more time on her book and TV projects.· Jane PerroneBen SaundersBlog pick, September 14: Professional adventurer Ben Saunders' blog is a little daunting. He's 26, but Saunders' about page is topped by a quote from the Times describing him as 'the next Sir Ranulph Fiennes'. The description ends: 'When he's not pulling a sledge, Ben is probably either planning his next expedition, keeping fit, or earning a crust as one of the UK's leading motivational speakers.' I can't help worrying that Saunders might end up prey to tall poppy syndrome with posts like this. On the other hand, a large dose of self belief is probably a must if you're going to ski across the Arctic Ocean. If you need an antidote to Saunders' derring-do, try My Life as a Morrisons Employee (via Linkmachinego).·Jane PerroneCandid cameraSeptember 13: How much harm can a little honesty do when you are the boss of one of Europe's biggest private television channels? Well, quite a lot, judging by the reactions triggered by the rather candid comments made by Patrick Le Lay, president and CEO of TF1, France's most-watched television channel and hate figure for the defenders of 'quality television'. The cause of the ruckus was Mr Le Lay's statement that programmes on his channel were merely there to make viewers more receptive to commercials. 'TF1's business [is] to help Coca-Cola sell its products' he said. 'what we sell Coca-Cola is available brain time. For an advert to be effective, the viewer's brain has to be available. Our programmes are made so that their brain becomes available, that is to say to entertain them, make them feel relaxed to get them ready between two commercials'.Mr Le Lay had been asked to share his vision on the business of television in a book, called Les Dirigeants face au changement [Managers facing change], expected to be read only among managers and decision makers.Published in May 2004, the book suddenly found itself the subject of much talk in the French media in July, after an undisclosed source pointed Mr Le Lay's comments out to the AFP news agency. Libération was first to pick up the news story, followed by Le Monde and other media outlets. The book has now become a mini bestseller against all expectations, selling 3,000 copies so far despite the summer break.Scam, the Civil society of multimedia authors, also heaped criticism on Mr Le Lay's comments, and now the TF1 boss has felt obliged to explain himself in an interview given to T?rama, a media and culture weekly magazine. But commentators are not convinced by what is seen as a not very convincing PR coup to try to defuse the controversy. The French press is not quite ready to give up on such a good story. · Jérémy BaraquinBrighton brothersSeptember 13: Monsoon-like conditions of torrential rain and a whiplash wind greeted union delegates arriving in Brighton this morning for the TUC conference - but inside the conference centre, the mood was noticeably more clement. Perhaps the grey skies and grey sea dampened activists' fire - outside the conference centre the contingent of leafleters for leftwing causes and fringe events was minimal; inside, as members gathered to begin the week's agenda with a debate on employment rights, equality and energy (the agenda is, vaguely, alphabetical), the atmosphere was subdued. "It's the pre-election purdah," said Andrew Murray, the Transport and General Workers' official spokesman. "It will be a miracle if anyone says anything interesting!" Read on· Matthew Tempest in BrightonTerrible, IvanSeptember 10: The word "shocking" is thrown around far too often in relation to pop music, and it's almost never appropriate. But Russian impresario Ivan Shapovalov - the creator of underage, boy-friendly lesbian duo Tatu - has finally come up with the goods. With Beslan still burying its dead, he has scheduled a "terror concert" featuring a female singer dressed as a suicide bomber. It is meant to coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, with tickets printed to resemble plane tickets. The singer, known as Nato, sings in Arabic, wears a veil, and will perform to a backdrop of Middle Eastern news footage and references to Iraq and al-Qaida. Website MosNews reports that the producer has been in discussion with a London music company to sign Nato, and that the company is interested "because nothing is getting blown up in England". Classy.· Sarah LeftMcLibel September 8: Their latest slogan is "I'm lovin' it" but down at McDonald's HQ they are probably not lovin' the return to the headlines of the McLibel duo.In a European court of human rights hearing yesterday the environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris argued their libel defeat to the fast food giants in 1997 was "unfair". They claim that as two ordinary people they were outmatched when defending themselves in the high court against the might of a big corporation, which had hit him them with a libel writ in 1990 after they had been distributing critical leaflets about it. The Guardian's John Vidal wrote a book on McLibel - subtitled Burger Culture on Trial - and there was also a documentary. The best online resource, however, is probably the McSpotlight website.Writing in the Guardian today, Miranda Sawyer says that the first McLibel trial was tedious. But she says the European case could change libel laws for corporations so that they are in line with a House of Lords ruling that "people should be able to criticise governmental bodies, so governmental bodies can only sue for libel where they can prove malice (rather than just damage to reputation)".This would mean corporations would be as accountable as public bodies and the "the dogged, tiring, pamphleteering Morris and Steel really would have made a difference". · Mark OliverSuper Size MeSeptember 8: McDonald's - which is not involved in the latest hearing, which pits the McLibel duo against the UK government - released a short statement. It said criticisms against it that led to the McLibel trial - some of which were upheld as true by the trial judges - related to the 1980s and the world had moved on. Indeed it has: these days their biggest detractor is the film maker Morgan Spurlock, whose hit documentary Super Size Me is playing in cinemas around the world.Spurlock, whose film chronicles the deterioration of his health during a month eating nothing but McDonald's food, has his own blog and is currently doing promotional work in New Zealand. In his latest dispatch, he rails against McD's using Olympic gold medal winners in adverts, castigating it as a tactic of trying to be linked to "health by association". His site has a game where you get to eat a lot of digital burgers, which may be better for you than the real thing. · Mark OliverThe Beslan tragedySeptember 6: In marked contrast to the British foreign secretary's delicate comments on the Beslan school siege disaster (Jack Straw was at pains this morning to avoid criticism of the beleaguered Russian government on grounds of "tastelessness") the Russian press does not shy away from awkward questions and blame-seeking in the wake of yet another terrorist attack. The English-language Moscow Times lambasts tardy Russian media coverage of the unfolding tragedy on Friday, compared with that of international TV news networks. It also draws attention to the mysterious story of two journalists with a history of critical reporting over Russia's military campaign in Chechnya who were apparently prevented from travelling to Beslan to cover the hostage crisis. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty'sAndrei Babitsky was reportedly stopped at Vnukovo Airport on suspicion of carrying explosives and later arrested and imprisoned for "hooliganism", while Anna Politkovskaya of Novaya Gazeta fell ill with poisoning on Thursday in what her editor told the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists was a deliberate interference in coverage of the crisis.The paper also claims the authorities knew from the start that there were 1200 hostages captive in the school and deliberately misled the public by releasing the figure of 354.Looking to the future, Moscow Times commentator Thomas De Waal warns of the likely destabilising effect on the northern Caucasus as a whole: "This is not a happy part of the world. It is poor, mostly Muslim and increasingly alienated from the rest of Russia ... Now, following Ingush involvement in a siege where Ossetian children died, there is the frightening prospect of retaliation by the Ossetians," he writes.Meanwhile Izvestia, whose editor was today fired over the paper's critical and graphic coverage of the siege on Saturday, presents a list of Lessons from Beslan, including how to escape being taken hostage in the early, confused moments of an attack. · Liane KatzApple's core eventSeptember 1: It's day two of the Paris MacExpo and - as is usual at these events - the main draw is Apple's new launch, the third generation iMac. The new machine was unveiled yesterday by Apple's marketing boss, Phil Schiller, and the crush around the Apple booth is likely to continue for the rest of the week as 70,000 attendees attempt to get a look - and feel - of the new computer. The new iMac is only two inches thick, and its curved lines bear a striking similarity to Apple's iPod music player, but CNet gets excited about the new machine's, er, vents, or "an air intake hole near the speakers at the bottom of the machine" - a feature that is hardly likely to set the industrial design community's pulses racing. Forrester Research doesn't quite share the excitement, praising the new design but doing a little to burst its bubble by observing that it doesn't have wireless internet access as standard or a TV card built in (you pay extra for both). Meanwhile, hardcore geek site Ars Technica has a lengthy discussion of the machine's merits, and omissions, and is shocked by the lack of Bluetooth support as standard. Mr Schiller was at pains to point out that these new models are cheaper than the ones they replaced - it looks as though all these hoped-for features have been sacrificed to keep the price down. He, of course, became Le Grand Fromage here in Paris this week, with the Apple chief executive, Steve Jobs, still recovering from successful cancer surgery. The Independent's Charles Arthur blogs a positive review of Mr Schiller's speaking style - much lighter than his boss's famously intense presentations - while hardcore Schiller-ites (and there will be a few) can relive the whole glorious experience now Apple has posted Phil - The Movie - on its site. Meanwhile, the Mac Observer's Brad Gibson - always a reliable source for Mac gossip - reports that initial supplies of the new machine will be "very limited" until near Christmas. However, attendees here would be daft to try to smuggle the most desirable, 20in version out under their jackets - tipping the scales at a mighty 25lb, Apple's slim new baby is a real heavyweight. · Neil McIntosh Archive

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