• If you missed yesterday's slanging match between YouTube and Viacom, well, you're in for a treat. The two companies have been at loggerheads for three years because of a lawsuit alleging that YouTube deliberately encourages copyright infringement, and a pile of court documents were released yesterday. As some have said, there's a lot of he said-she said, but basically Viacom claims "countless internal YouTube communications demonstrating that YouTube's founders and its employees intended to profit from that infringement", while the Google-owned video site says that Viacom uploaded thousands of videos to the site in secret, can't tell which ones they are and is just annoyed because it wanted to buy YouTube. Who will win? There's only one way to find out... FIIIIGHT!.
• Talking Google for a moment longer, a report from China (here's a translated version) suggests that the company may be preparing to pull out of the country on April 10. The search engine is staying quiet for now and won't confirm the report, but it can only maintain the protracted silence since its attention-grabbing threat to lift censorship in January for so long.
• It's not too long before I head off to pastures unknown, but as if that uncertainty wasn't enough, researchers in Tokyo have built a robot journalist that examines its surroundings, asks questions, writes short articles and publishes them to the web. Just in time for the weekend, I have developed a serious case of the fear. Gulp!
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