Facebook, the #2 social networking website in the US, has announced a new product called “share“. The feature allows facebook users, predominately American university students, to collect content from partner websites and publish it on their profile pages. Initial partners… Continue Reading
Free newspapers, often read by commuters and left behind for others to pick up, sneeze and cough on, and read, could be one of the ways that bird flu could, were it to hit a major city, be quickly transmitted… Continue Reading
Wired Digital, part of the Conde Nast group, has purchased the social bookmarking site Reddit for an undisclosed amount. Like Digg, Reddit is essentially a social recommendation tool for online news stories. Registered users add a story and other users… Continue Reading
OJR: Meet the new face of hyperlocal journalism A former NYT columnist explains how a local blog can challenge, and scoop, a local paper while making a business of small-town coverage. (tags: local Journalism citizenjournalism web2.0 newspaperbusiness news2.0 blogs blogging… Continue Reading
It seems everyone is jumping on the Second Life bandwagon. In the past few weeks, Wired and C-Net set up offices there, joining the BBC, who rented an Island to host a concert, and Reuters, who recently set up an… Continue Reading
BBC web 2.0 plans (??) (apparently) The BBC will not be expanding its existing blogs aggressively according to Clifton but he said he hopes to launch a new blog to be written by BBC foreign correspondents around the world. (tags:… Continue Reading
Why I shut down my blog The story of a writer who shut down her blog because it was getting in the way of her doing anything productive (tags: blog blogging bloggingtechniques blogs) What property rights do you have in… Continue Reading
Mark Briggs wants your help writing a book on “Journalism 2.0” He’s billing it as a survival guide for jouralists and journalism students navigating the changing landscape of journalism (tags: journalismtraining journalism newspaperbusiness news2.0 news) Guardian seeks to develop revenue… Continue Reading
Digg doesn’t dig NewsCorp’s acquisition offer, to seek 2nd round finance instead… San Francisco-based startup Digg has been in recent acquisition discussions with a number of companies, including News Corp., according to multiple sources close to the negotiations. However, the… Continue Reading
Last week I got an email from Maggie Stiefvater who had seen a photo I posted on flickr and wanted permission to use it as the basis for a painting. The photo, which is of a few pubs, including the… Continue Reading