In a short while I’ll be heading off to the launch of eTribes new – well, I’m not sure what it is – online publishing platform. The Independent recently described eTribes as a "British weblog and personal website company" and… Continue Reading
The good people at CyberJournalist have been mining the Pew Internet and American Life project’s newest research findings. There’s little point in my stealing their thunder since they’ve done a good job of pulling out some tantalising tid-bits and have… Continue Reading
CellJournalist is the latest of several sites hoping to cash in by making the link between "citizen journalists", or in this case citizen snappers, and mainstream media organisations. That doesn’t, of course, make it bad. Nor does the fact that… Continue Reading
Did I read that correctly? Jeff Jarvis seems to have called a truce in his blog-mob-war with Dell: "They even wrote to me — yes, grouchy old me. I got an email last week, while on vacation, noting that in… Continue Reading
Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending much of the afternoon and evening in the company of Nancy White. She stopped by the BBC for an informal chat with a wide range of BBC people involved in building and managing… Continue Reading
The other day I noticed (thanks Martin!) that a spam blog was taking my RSS feed and republishing content from cybersoc.com elsewhere [see technorati’s tracking of the links]. Spam blogs basically take content from RSS feeds, republish it, then reap… Continue Reading
Back in April, I posted a review of my new macbook pro and said that it gets hot enough that I could probably fry an egg on it. I knew then that if I could just muster the courage to… Continue Reading
Sometimes I feel like I’m running a one man campaign to encourage mainstream media organisations, the one I work for included, to acknowledge and link to the great content that’s already available on the internet. Make no mistake, I really… Continue Reading
I started keeping tally of Jarvis v Dell, the rematch, yesterday afternoon, when I noticed that Jarvis had decided to go on the offensive against Dell’s new, somewhat half-assed attempt at a customer service blog. I awarded Dell a point… Continue Reading
Typepad had a bit of a hiccup yesterday so I’ve had to repost a number of posts. This has not just confused the order of posts here, but has also made my RSS feed look a bit odd. Sorry for… Continue Reading