BBC News: Google Earth is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad (tags: google googlemaps maps) Downing Street’s Website “Prat” Speaks Out A government minister has labelled the controversial online petitions on Downing Street’s website as an… Continue Reading
A book I contributed a chapter to, Online Matchmaking is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The book was edited by by Monica T. Whitty, Andrea J. Baker, James A. Inman. My chapter looks at how things have changed in… Continue Reading
I’ve just been bamboozled into being interviewed by BBC London TV News at BBC London, to be shown on BBC Kent. They’re doing a report tonight about the fall-out after some teachers became upset by reviews their students posted on… Continue Reading
EU law will ban companies from writing favourable posts about own products and services “Businesses which write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from “falsely… Continue Reading
The campaign website for American Democratic Presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, has pulled out all the stops to embrace social software. From the main index, visitors can join the site and create a profile which they can then use to… Continue Reading
AP Partners with NowPublic.com AP bureaus will work with NowPublic communities in selected locations on ways to enhance regional news coverage, and national AP news desks also may tap the network in breaking news situations where citizen contributors may capture… Continue Reading
MySpace makes $25m per month, claims Murdoch (tags: myspace socialnetworking web2.0 rupertmurdoch) Irish News to appeal libel payout over restaurant review “A leading Northern Ireland daily newspaper tonight instructed its lawyers to lodge an appeal after it was ordered to… Continue Reading
On linkbaiting, SEO’ing and all that other crap | :Ben Metcalfe Blog (tags: links bloggingtechniques blogs) We Media Miami: Mark Glaser spots the “Them” in WeMedia “the people who are losing control have decided to meet — and meet, and… Continue Reading
The Journalist’s Blogroll Originally uploaded by martinstabe. My technorati rank might be in freefall as my work life increasingly gets in the way of my blogging, but Graham Holliday still saw fit to include me in his feature about UK… Continue Reading
Local activists use myspace to try to save cinema (tags: St.Albans odeon activism myspace) Message board user breaks leg… culprit apologises 4 pages of posts later A message board user’s leg was broken in a football match. Someone posted, asking… Continue Reading