Carphone Warehouse is reportedly planning to launch a service that offers free broadband access. BBC News Online reports that Carphone Warehouse has announced a new service called TalkTalk that gives users unlimited local and national calls, unlimited calls to 28… Continue Reading
The World Health Organisation today released figures showing that “Zimbabwe’s women have an average life expectancy of 34 years and men on average do not live past 37”. Just an hour ago I was reading a letter, in the Guardian,… Continue Reading
We knew there was something in the works – the rumour that Craig, who wrote a guest post for cybersoc.com last week, had invested money in a “citizen journalism project” has been making the rounds for a few weeks now.… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago my 12inch powerbook, which had a little accident, died. Rather than waiting to hear back from the insurance company, I seized the opportunity to get a new 2 ghz macbook pro. It’s a lovely looking machine,… Continue Reading
A few days ago at work I got an email from a student doing a dissertation about the BBC. On her course, the lecturers always talked about the BBC being a model upon which news and media organisations around the… Continue Reading
Using data from technorati, Ben Fry has created an image showing how the top 50 blogs are linked to each other. For the full size pdf, and accompanying explanation, see the newyorkmetro.com article: I guess it’s probably going to be… Continue Reading
Here’s the headlines and links – you didn’t really think I’d write all this stuff up, did you?! Kids love myspace:Identity Production in Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart Myspace by Danah Boyd So do the police: Teens Arrested after posting…on… Continue Reading
In the most recent installment of his series of articles for BBC News Online, Dan Gillmor suggests that journalists play a part in the education of citizen journalists: "Professional journalists should also be helping citizen journalists, with education and training.… Continue Reading
Ian Mayes, president of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen, points out that The Guardian and Sky News were duped last week when they ran a user contributed photo, purportedly of a fire in Dorset (England), that turned out to be… Continue Reading
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been using talkr to create mp3’s of posts here on cybersoc.com. Now you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes. [Thanks to Przemion for helping me figure out how to link to the subscription page!]