The House of Lords has reportedly ruled today that ten internet service providers (ISPs) must hand over the details of 150 UK based internet users who have allegedly broken software copyright law by illegally uploading software and sharing it online.
Cybersoc.com is giving away a free one year flickr Pro account*. But why?! Oh you sceptical cybersoc.com readers just don’t know a freebie when you see one, do you? There’s no catch and no, flickr isn’t paying me to say… Continue Reading
The National Union of Journalists (UK) has published guidelines for organisations publishing or broadcasting photos, video, text and other audience contributions. The Witness Contributors’ Code of Practice sets down ways in which organisations and individuals can maintain the highest professional… Continue Reading
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has published a new paper about the effect of the internet on social ties. In my own MPhil thesis, I looked at the implications of internet use upon one’s friendships and pre-existing communities.… Continue Reading
BBC News is reporting that myspace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media, is to launch a UK site “within 30 days”. Although there was a backlash when Fox purchased the site last year, with reports that some… Continue Reading
PBS, Salon.com and XM Satellite Radio in the US have teamed up to create participate.net, where audience members can submit short videos, podcasts and text stories to be reused by the various partners in the project. “As a community of… Continue Reading
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m all for making the moderation process for message boards, comments, etc more transparent to the user. Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, even “low quality” comments from users all have… Continue Reading
The New Statesman has organised a free debate (01 Feb) titled: Politics and New Media: where next? * what it will take to get more MPs online? * how to get politicians to take technology more seriously? * how new… Continue Reading
The Guardian is currently running an online debate about citizen journalism. The panel, chaired by Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, includes: Carol Hall, Rights Manager, BBC News John Thompson, MD, Mousetrap Media Kyle McRae, Scoopt.com Fiona Brownsell, CEO,… Continue Reading
FlickrPeople Originally uploaded by mike1727. I attended my first flickr meet last Friday in St. Albans. The eight of us chatted about flickr, technology, house prices and all sorts of other rubbish for a good four hours. Had the beer… Continue Reading