Month: August 2007

holiday in peoria Originally uploaded by robinhamman I’m taking a short break to visit my home town for the first time in many years. Back soon!

Getting social networking sites to socialize “each network is effectively a “walled garden,” where the benefits of the network are artificially limited by the inability to link a friend in Facebook with one in MySpace.” (tags: facebook socialnetworking socialsoftware onlinecommunity… Continue Reading →

MoD issues gag order on armed forces | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel will not be able to blog, take part in surveys, speak in public, post on bulletin boards, play in multi-player computer games… Continue Reading →

CIMG1599.JPG Originally uploaded by mattcashmore Digital Rights Management (DRM) protesters stopped by BBC Television Centre in London this morning… More photos here

Tom finds out that Twitter is blocked in UAE (tags: twitter socialnetworking uae)

SOJo: Student of Online Journalism some good links… “Student of Online Journalism. A blog about the Web, the media, journalism, and classes related thereto.” (tags: journalism journalisttraining links del.icio.us florida) BBC World Service conducts multimedia-reporting experiment in the US The… Continue Reading →

The Saturday Profile: Nick Robinson, news hound – Independent Online Edition > Profiles workaholic and keen blogger… (tags: nickrobinson blogging politics theindependent bloggingtechniques bbc bbcnews bbcblogs) Like Digg but local, multilingual and flexible A social news platform allowing users to… Continue Reading →

Californian Can Be Sued in N.J. for Alleged Libel on Internet: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance “Many state courts have ruled that posting libelous material in open forums that can be seen everywhere does not vest jurisdiction in the victim’s… Continue Reading →

What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs? Lee Lefever’s post is well worth a read if you’re thinking about which is the more appropriate format for a project… (tags: bloggingtechniques onlinecommunitymanagement onlinediscussion web2.0 discussion socialsoftware)