A friend (thanks Martin) just sent me a link to this map of online communities from XKCD: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It appears to be missing a few islands but most of the continents seem to… Continue Reading
Gaming Digg: blogger buys Digg votes and others follow (tags: digg socialsoftware recommendation socialbookmarking news2.0 web2.0) Alan Johnston Support Buttons on 500+ blogs The button created by BBC News Online in support of BBC Journalist Alan Johnston, missing since early… Continue Reading
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks mulling over three presentations I’ll be giving over the next two weeks: 09/10 May: Karlstads Universitet in Sweden – I’ll be giving a 45 minute presentation at Medborgarmedier (flyer pdf) as part of… Continue Reading
Photo challenge: 100 strangers flickr support group for citizen journalists wanting more bravery… (tags: photojournalism Flickr Citizenjournalism citizenpaps photosharing onlinecommunity) Want to watch a geo-IP restricted video.. and take home your own copy? Getting around the geographic IP blocking used… Continue Reading
Because April was an unusual month, I’ve spent a little bit more time looking at the monthly statistics cybersoc.com than I normally would. For the 15 days leading up to the horrific Virginia Tech massacre, this blog served up an… Continue Reading
BBC Journalist Alan Johnston has now been held hostage for 50 nights after disappearing on the way home from his Gaza office on 12 March. Over recent weeks, Alan’s family and BBC colleagues have been joined by journalists and other… Continue Reading
Make it disappear from google A user posts something libellous on your site. Your moderators remove it. But google has already indexed the post… here’s where you go to get it removed from the google index (tags: google howto onlinecommunitymanagement… Continue Reading
I just made my 1000th bookmark on del.icio.us – just one year one month and one day after I joined. That’s around 3 bookmarks per day, give or take a few percentage points that aren’t worth revisiting the math anxiety… Continue Reading
Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks: How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace Some 55% of online teens have profiles and most of them restrict access to their profile in some way. Of… Continue Reading
myTelegraph: Telegraph to launch readers blogs (tags: shanerichmond dailytelegraph newspaperblogs news2.0 blogging blogs usergeneratedcontent onlinecommunitymanagement) More Evidence that Full RSS Feeds Work Better than Excerpts “Rick Klau of FeedBurner say that “that they seen no evidence that excerpts [partial feeds]… Continue Reading