Are you a media or journalism student? Reckon you can podcast, shoot and edit video for the web, blog, write articles for student magazines or newspapers? If so, the We Media Fringe, taking place at a secret location in SoHo,… Continue Reading
It’s unofficially official! Due to the efforts of a small band of co-conspirators, the WeMedia fringe event is going to take place in London on the evening of Wednesday 03 May 2006. So far we’ve organised the following speakers for… Continue Reading
Lot’s of bad stuff, you know, happens on sites like… yeah, that one. Now, reports the Chronicle, students disciplined by their schools for posts they’ve made online, often from computers far removed from their school’s network, are fighting back with… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago I posted here asking if anyone would be interested in attending or helping to organise a wemedia fringe event in London. The idea is to create a fringe event to the WeMedia conference but make it… Continue Reading
A new study by Jupiter Research, as reported in yesterday’s Guardian, suggests that "bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society…" Ok, we already knew that, but the research is actually quite interesting because it suggests… Continue Reading
I’m always saying that mainstream media needs to start seeking out and embracing audience content wherever it might exist, even if that means just linking to it rather than supplying the platform and making claims of ownership over the content.… Continue Reading
People I meet are always telling me that they’re about to start a blog. Having sort of just woke up one day and started this blog, I’ve made my fair share of mistakes which, hopefully, this post might help a… Continue Reading
I don’t know more than four words of French so there’s always a risk that the blog post by Fabrice Epelboin that I just stumbled upon, L’infrastructure derrière MySpace, may actually be about photos of butts on myspace.com rather than… Continue Reading
Last Friday I received an email from a journalist writing a story about MySpace.com for The Independent on Sunday. Reading through the questions he’d emailed me, it was fairly obvious the article was going to be a hatchet job on… Continue Reading
3 mobile in the UK is offering users the opportunity to make money from cameraphone videos and images. According to the website, 3 subscribers can upload their video using the short code 32323. The Guardian reports that the service, which… Continue Reading