TechPresident: Innovation Rewarded with $10,000 prize TechPresident.com, a data-rich, nonpartisan group blog that covers real-time, online activity of the 2008 presidential candidates – and chronicles online content from voters who will elect them, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner… Continue Reading
Newsnight, Government and Audience Clarify and Debate it Online Newsnight items have been provoking debate on the website for years, but what I hadn’t seen before was so many key participants in a story – government, pressure group, programme makers… Continue Reading
ipod touch Originally uploaded by robinhamman I popped into the Apple Store on Regent Street this morning to see the newly arrived iPod touch. I wasn’t the only one – every iPod touch in the store was in use, with… Continue Reading
Manchester Blog Stories is a project where readers can help determine the twists of plot in a work of blog based fiction or, as they explain: "a fictional blog you can help to shape, set in real time Manchester. Each… Continue Reading
Twitter is a story-teller’s dream | Mike Butcher – mbites (tags: twitter storytelling microblogging mikebutcher)
Yesterday I took a phone call from a BBC colleague who was hoping for some tips as to where he might look – photo and video sharing websites, social networking service, etc – for people posting from inside Burma. Journalists… Continue Reading
Politicians and lawyers are poised to destroy Internet’s unprecedented opportunity for free speech. U.K. suffers serious setback, U.S. is next. « The Future of News “If you think it can’t happen here in the U.S., you haven’t been paying attention.… Continue Reading
BBC recruits Kazaa’s Anthony Rose | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk “He has also been given responsibility for creating a “unified embedded media experience” across the BBC’s online properties.” (tags: bbc)
The UK blogosphere continues to buzz about last week’s incident involving an Uzbek billionaire requesting that an ISP remove content which he felt was defamatory. Lastnight, I spoke about UK libel law and how it relates to content originators and… Continue Reading
A number of UK bloggers, including the Tory London Mayoral Candidate Boris Johnson, had their blogs taken down by their ISP Friday following threats of legal action by Uzbek billionaire and major Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov. The bloggers, who were… Continue Reading