I read an article yesterday about how search engines have changed and are constantly adapting to give the user what they believe they are searching for and this got me thinking about the whole control of information or mis-information.

With more and more people using the internet as their regular source for news and information. With new technology likely to make us even more web dependent by allowing us to access the internet in new ways from anywhere. Should we be more aware of how this information is searched and delivered to us and who is in control of it?.

Search engines are our main portal to all the lovely free information online, but how many consider the power these companies hold - with a recent Facebook login / Google search issue proving how trusted and unwittingly people search.

If google and all the other big search engines are tailoring their search results to give us specific types of information. They are inadvertently limiting and filtering the information we get.

This has been made more public recently when Google changed its search results in China to censor / remove whole parts of Chinese history to gain a footing in the lucrative Chinese search market.

This is happening at a less obvious level on a day to day basis as search engines alter their search functions to suit  what they believe people are searching for, but is this also effecting what we are searching for…? Potentially ending in a Orwellian Big Brother scenario where all information and news we received is controlled by search engines.

“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
George Orwell, 1984

With the 2010 general election soon to be upon us and the propaganda machine already in full motion, it seems this election is even more about personality than policies. Is there any way of telling the main parties apart or have they all just merged into one even less distinguishable blur.

Nick Griffin’s appearance on the BBC’s Question Time, tonight, is causing a lot of debate about the BNP as a political party and whether it should be allowed to stand in the same way as other parties.

Surely democracy only works if there is good and bad, everyone should have the right to express their views - this is a fundamental of democracy. It is up to the voter to see through the parties politics and not vote for them, by banning or not allowing their voice to be heard wouldn’t it create more of a compelling story for people to believe them.

I certainly do not agree with the BNPs views and no matter what veneer Nick Griffin puts on it they are a fascist party with very very flimsy and superficial policies that play on the minds of narrow minded bigots.

I have faith in the politicians and general public in exposing what trash the party is with the age old tool of debate - if the questions are the correct ones there is no way the BNP can hide it’s ugly views.

After the walk from Vauxhall tube I was hoping for a lot from the Altermodern exhibition at the Tate Britain, but was left a little underwhelmed by it all - except for a few artists work. But the work that really grabbed my attention was by the German artist Franz Ackermann. His work really took me on a journey of colour and movement, and made a grey and until then pretty quite London day jump around singing in excitement and fun – definitely worth a visit to see his work for yourself.

It is now only a few days until America finally cast its vote and gets rid of the tyrant George W Bush once and for all - but where will this leave Me. For all his downsides; war mongering, his cabinets connections to big business and that childish grin to name but a few traits he was a great target for me and any other sane person to laugh at and mock. Although I can only be happy that such a crooney is leaving a position that wields so much power.

Even though I need some political fodder to keep me going I am sure both new candidates will provide this over time - it’s the American way. McCain certainly appears to be of the same breed as good Old W, so if he gets to power I am sure I will have my hands full pretty quickly, whereas Obama appears a bit more clean cut which is likely to give me less ammunition, but alas it is not me that decides instead it is that crazy nation that is America.

With the recent release of the new 3G IPhone and its new software that allows third party applications to be downloaded from iTunes and installed onto the phone, can this new technology summarize the ideals of the American nation?

At last count I found 15+ ‘Tip calculators’ (because moving the decimal place is too much like mathematics), 5 ‘Magic 8-balls’ and unsurprisingly only 2 currency converters. Further cementing the fact that Americans are willing to tell the rest of the world what to do even though they have never left their own shores, instead most are very happy to sit in restaurants getting obese whilst their Magic 8-ball cuts out the need to even exercise that flabby muscle known as the brain “Should I have fries instead of salad? - You may rely on it”, maybe they should try traveling around the world…. but the Magic 8-ball says NO!

Have you ever had the misfortune of having your national insurance number used fraudulently?. Hopefully you haven’t but if you have or if you want to know what to do if this happens in the future then there is a very helpful page on the HM Revenue and Customs website… well there would be but sharing that information would seem to infringe the Freedom of Information Act 2000, so instead the government won’t tell you - so there!

Wednesdays task of getting two housemates to move a loop of wire from one end of an electrified wire to the other was a stroke of genius on the producers part. I haven’t seen anything as funny as this on tele in a very long time. A group of attention seeking reprobates wearing shiny spandex suits and getting electric shocks every time the two wires touched was just great, it was like some crazy Japanese game-show but even funnier.

The conservatives are still running their Boris damage limitation program by scrapping the weekly questions to the mayor that used to take place every Tuesday, this will now only happen monthly and not be unlimited questions. This is being put down to a change in style not for any other reason… like substance, maybe.

Is there any Londoners that will believe this with Boris already heavily wrapped in political cotton-wool in the form of his large panel of advisors whose job is to make sure he doesn’t slip up and ruin all the political ground the party have built in the London elections.

Maybe a good time to send Boris on another holiday Mr Cameron, you don’t want him escaping his office and saying something that has not been planned. But I must also say touché to the PR office at city hall who have managed to bury this story under the news of Boris standing down as an MP.

Could this be one of the greatest speeches of our time?. Stephen Fry talks with such enthusiasm and gusto about the BBC - its past and its possible future. This is something that every British person, scrap that, every person should listen to and hopefully be inspired by, if this does not create some reaction in you then you are dead from the waist up.