Because the internet is a global network, accessible anywhere, one of the questions I often hear when training online community hosts and moderators is "which country’s libel laws apply?". The BBC World Service is a perfect example of how complicated… Continue Reading
A colleague of mine just pointed me towards an online video, recently produced by BBC News Interactive, exploring the theme of citizen journalism (primarily the use of cameraphone photos and video footage): Version for RealPlayer (256k) Version for WindowsMedia (256k)… Continue Reading
Sulake, a games development company specialising in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and communities, is currently seeking two experienced online community professionals to oversee their new multiplayer online community game for children: Community Operations Manager Site Producer/Content Manager The roles… Continue Reading
This week, the Chartered Institute of Journalists (in the UK) warned media organisations against encouraging people to put themselves or others at risk whilst taking photos on their camerphones: “Since the July bombs in London it has become common practice… Continue Reading
Howard Rheingold has made the syllabus available for a course on digital journalism that he’ll be teaching at Stanford University. Students will be asked to blog and post or edit a wikipedia entry as part of the assessment – nice… Continue Reading
I’m always going on about how, although the internet is a global network, many people use it primarily for local tasks – communicating with people they work with or already know, searching for local products, events or services, etc. Today… Continue Reading
The news story about Russia cutting off natural gas supplies to the Ukraine was, at least until the countries came to agreement, a pretty big story. Most of the Western press was reporting it as the story of big powerful… Continue Reading
2005 was, writes Jo Twist for BBC News Online, the year of the digital citizen: "2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped,… Continue Reading
On March 11-12, 2006, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of “cultural environmentalism” over the course of ten busy years for intellectual property law. We’ve… Continue Reading
Today I rediscovered the wonderful flickr mosaic maker and used it to create a sort of pictorial record of my 2005. Some of the photos are related to the events (London following the bombs of 07 July, the Buncefield Fuel… Continue Reading