Like most bloggers, I use technorati to keep track of the cross-blog conversations I’m part of. I’ve always found it a really useful tool and even once wrote a post with 8 suggestions on how to improve technorati. Recently, however,… Continue Reading
Sun man says local broadcasters fail to embrace communities and give them a forum As opposed, of course, to the Sun which kicks off all sorts of wholesome debates about topics ranging from the breast sizes of various glamour models,… Continue Reading
Visualising Crowds Using Tag Maps The good people at Yahoo research have posted the slides for a presentation about using flickr tags to visualise crowds – Stanley Milgram would be proud (tags: crowds flickr tags tagging maps mashup research yahoo)… Continue Reading
In a recent interview, Martin Fewell, the assistant editor of Channel 4 News, told Journalism.co.uk’s Oliver Luft that: Blogs by journalistic organisations are an opportunity to add value to our core products, television news. We gather a lot more information… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago Andrew Grant-Adamson, who teaches journalism at the University of Westminster, kicked off an interesting debate when he asked “What’s the Purpose of Newspaper Blogs?“. That debate drew comment from The Guardian’s Neil Mcintosh, The Telegraph’s… Continue Reading
Worried about your google pagerank? Start blogging… Vice chairman of AOL, owner of pro hockey team and minority owner in a pro-basketball team needed to give a boost to his pagerank (tags: blogging google pagerank) Doc Searls responds to Jeff… Continue Reading
I’ve always said that brands that want to “do” online community need to find a topic, or a small number of topics, that they can plow all their effort into. There’s no point in trying to do a whole bunch… Continue Reading
I’m working on a project where we require a web based RSS reader that can output RSS. Sounds crazy, I know, but basically we want to populate the RSS reader with a whole bunch of feeds, split into different categories,… Continue Reading
A few months ago, I posted here about the guy whose phone was stolen and, because he had Shozu configured to upload any cameraphone images in the background, his flickr stream ended up playing host to some photos taken by… Continue Reading
The BBC’s long running Newsnight, a TV current affairs programme that most people in the UK will be familiar with, is asking viewers to submit their own news and current affairs videos for inclusion in the programme early in 2007.… Continue Reading