So who really was first with BA crash landing news? | The Wire | Press Gazette “Blogger Steve Yelvington says that he first learned of last Thursday’s remarkable Heathrow crash from Cybersoc, the blog of BBC broadcast journalist and web… Continue Reading
spEak You’re bRanes: A collection of ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar “All the comments quoted were found on the BBC “Have Your Say” site. Yes, people really have written them. On purpose as far as I can tell.”… Continue Reading
BBC NEWS | Wales | Web worries after suicide spate Social networking websites could be “romanticising” suicide, an MP claims after the deaths of seven young people from her area in the past year. (tags: bbcnews socialnetworking facebook myspace bebo… Continue Reading
Flickr: The Commons – Collaborative tagging of public photos The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to show how your… Continue Reading
BBC NEWS | Magazine | What happened to the Branscombe booty? Containers washed from the stricken vessel delivered BMW motorbikes, pet food, anti-wrinkle cream, empty wine barrels, copies of the Bible in Xhosa – and a horde of scavengers eager… Continue Reading
More, more, more = Less? “In the past, having a TV was seen as an indicator of wealth and class. Now, according to a study carried out by marketing and information group CACI, the average UK home has 4.7 television… Continue Reading
BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than 500,000 daily users. (tags: facebook copyright bbcnews) BBC NEWS | World |… Continue Reading
Conversation Agent: New Media Influences Journalists “blogs are not only having an impact on the speed and availability of news, but also influence the tone and editorial direction of reporting.” (tags: journalism journalisttraining newspaperwebsites news2.0)
Pluck on The Block; Sale Could Fetch Around $75 Million | paidContent.org “It recently started powering social media tools on the redesigned USAToday.com, and on Monday it announced a similar makeover for Guardian’s website.” (tags: socialmedia socialsoftware newspaperwebsites new2.0) France’s… Continue Reading
Guardian Reader’s Editor on Mining Facebook for Content “While sharing information with your Facebook friends may feel cosy, it may be more like performing at a small venue than a private conversation.” (tags: privacy journalism facebook journalisttraining socialnetworking socialmedia guardian)… Continue Reading