back soon…
I’m taking a short break and, after some deliberation and quite a few comments from you, I’ve decided to let the blog have a break too. Looking for some good stuff? I’m subscribed to about 60 feeds that you might… Continue Reading
Month: September 2006
teaching an old post new tricks: netvocates again
I always find it strange how a post that’s several months old can suddenly get a link from a big site and go bonkers with traffic. Remember a few months back when I started posting about Netvocates, the company that… Continue Reading
some links for tuesday
paperless German “newspaper” launches “citizen journalism” site: Readers-Edition.de Danah Boyd’s social networking researchers and research roundup Pew: Future of the Internet II (study) can you get traffic from social bookmarking / recommendations? caught astroturfing ways of measuring blog popularity (from… Continue Reading
my bbc radio interview with howard rheingold
My interview with Howard Rheingold appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs last night. You can listen to it online. The programme is here and the interview, which lasts about 10 minutes, starts at 26:30. (While listening, do… Continue Reading
some law related news
Regular readers will know that, for the past two years, I’ve been working on a part-time post-graduate law degree in law at the University of Hertfordshire. Word arrived today that I’ve now successfully completed the Common Practical Exam which is… Continue Reading
links for thursday
reuters gives $100,000 to Jay Rosen’s project newassignment.net Dan Gillmor asks: do public media believe in the public? Robert at NPR thinks the BBC Manchester blog is getting public broadcasting closer to the holy grail… my Bivings inspired web 2.0… Continue Reading
flickr business cards and blogsitting
It’s a rare morning when I come across not one but two interesting new websites / services that catch my interest enough to blog about them. The first is moo.com where you can order business cards created from your flickr… Continue Reading
links for monday
India’s e-tutors give UK children homework help: Call centres charge £50 a month for unlimited individual help to pupils thousands of miles away Fifth Circuit Affirms Lower Court Dismissal in Defamation Case; Lack of Personal Jurisdiction: In Ouazzani-Chahdi v. Greensboro… Continue Reading
your interview with howard rheingold
On Friday 22 September I’ll be interviewing Howard Rheingold for BBC 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs. Howard has done so much over the past 10 – 15 years of his career that I need your help coming up with some… Continue Reading
aggregator of aggregators: threat to mainstream media?
I’ve just come across popurls, an aggregator of – what else – aggregators and social bookmarking sites. So you get the most popular items on digg, del.icio.us, reddit, newsvine, metafilter, tailrank, google news, yahoo news, netscape, shoutwire, slashdot, wired, fark,… Continue Reading