the content of twitter tweets (tags: twitter web2.0 socialnetworking SocialSoftware whinge) Brummie Girls “Not Pretty Enough” “Beauty contest officials chose a model from Stoke-on-Trent to represent Birmingham because they could not find anyone pretty enough from the city…” (tags: bbcnews… Continue Reading
Facebook Opens Up to Third Party Content, Widgets, etc “Facebook is inviting thousands of technology companies and programmers to contribute features to its service. They can even make money from the site’s users by doing so…” (tags: facebook web2.0 socialnetworking… Continue Reading
Assignment Zero: Howard Rheingold -The “arms race” between participation and control (tags: rheingold interview usergeneratedcontent onlinecommunitymanagement onlinediscussion onlinecommunity socialmedia assignmentzero)
1/3 of bloggers face the sack According to a study, 1/3 of workplace bloggers risk getting fired for revealing too much, criticising colleagues, etc (tags: bloggers blogging statistics bl bloggingguidelines bloggingrestrictions bloggingtechniques) A 40 something BBC Tech Correspondent tries out… Continue Reading
I’m one of the half dozen BBC people attending The Social Impact of the Web event today at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) in London. The central theme is: “With e-democracy and new… Continue Reading
Dan Gillmor, Scoble and Others Discuss Media literacy in a media saturated world (tags: scoble DanGillmor katiehafner Berkeley Journalism citizenjournalism citizensnappers news2.0 usergeneratedcontent)
The Tate’s first exhibition where members of the public are invited to submit… via flickr (tags: flickr tate museum art usergeneratedcontent photosharing london) Vulgar readers lead to ‘failure’ of Israeli interactive comments (thanks aaron!) (tags: comments onlinecommunitymanagement onlinediscussion onlinecommunity)
Obama takes control of MySpace page from former supporter Myspace settles dispute over ownership of a MySpace page set up in Obama’s name by a supporter by handing it back to Obama – but giving ex-supporter the right to keep… Continue Reading
Plazes is a service that tracks your mobile phone and/or the points where you connect to the internet and plots them on a map. You can then add descriptions and images to the new plazes you create so that other… Continue Reading
MediaShift: Indepth look at various hyper-local citizen journalism projects Looks at what’s out there, what works, what hasn’t, etc. Very comprehensive post by Mark Glaser. (tags: citizenjournalism citizenmedia hyperlocal local news2.0 usergeneratedcontent networkedjournalism journalism journalisttraining markglaser pbs mediashift) RSA Event:… Continue Reading