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Joanna Witt is a London-based freelance journalist and digital producer who has spent the majority of her career running high-profile websites for the BBC.

Having trained as a legal journalist, she went on to work on a number of trade publications, reporting on the advertising and marketing industry, and producing consumer health news for an online news agency.

She joined the BBC in 2003 and was staff for eight years, launching some of the corporation's most popular websites, many of which ran alongside live studio shows. As such she is particularly interested in the power of brands online and the nuts and bolts of producing successful and profitable sites.

She specializes in social media and has a strong interest in the power of SEO as the web develops. Joanna has a BA and an MA from Nottingham University.

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NIB
1 June 2012
Sky blocks access to The Pirate Bay

Sky has joined other major UK broadband providers in blocking access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Last week, the organisation cut off access to the Swedish site following a court order, filed under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act and obtained by the British Phonographic Industry. Sky follows Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere in barring access to the site. O2, TalkTalk and BT are expected to do the same. The ban is a win for the entertainment industry, which started targeting broadband providers after legal challenges to the file-sharing websites themselves failed. The decision about The Pirate Bay follows a landmark ruling about a similar site Newzbin2 last year.
NIB
21 May 2012
Google Chrome becomes top browser

Google Chrome has become the most-used browser in the world according to new data from StatCounter, nudging Internet Explorer off the top spot for a continual period of a week. The latest data shows that 31.88 percent of global web traffic was carried out through Chrome compared with 31.4 percent on IE, and reflects the current trends of both browsers, with Crome trending up and IE losing market share, although it is still the top browser in many regions.
NIB
14 May 2012
[nib] Hague restricts access to The Pirate Bay

A court in the Hague has ordered the Netherlands' Pirate Party to stop helping people overcome blocks to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Anti-piracy group Brien complained the political party was helping users find ways to access the site, despite an earlier ruling ordering two of the country's largest ISPs to block it. The court also upheld an order banning the party from offering a proxy to enable people find links to The Pirate Bay without visiting the site itself. The Pirate Party describes the ruling as a win for Brien and a loss for democracy and a free Internet.
NIB
21 May 2012
Google to answer EU antitrust concerns

The European Commission wants Google to respond swiftly to suggestions that it is abusing its dominant position by giving preferential treatment to its own services in search results. An EC investigation kicked off in November 2010 following complaints from rivals and the EC wants Google to address the claims before moving to a formal investigation if necessary. The claims include the way the search engine pushes its own services differently from other competing products and the way it locks out rival brands by selling exclusive advertising around certain search terms.