Stephen Colbert has turned his attention to the weaknesses of wikipedia, where he encourages viewers to mess with the entry about elephants. As Tom Coates points out, a look at the change history for the wikipedia entry, and subsequent locking… Continue Reading
For some reason, my del.icio.us is absolutely overflowing with "bloggers vs mainstream media" links: Niel McIntosh at CompleteTosh thought he had almost recovered from the debate which, not long ago, made him contemplate chewing his arm off in frustration. Then… Continue Reading
The Bivings Report yesterday published the results of their study into ‘The Use of the Internet by America’s Newspapers’. They looked at the websites of the top 100 American newspapers (based on print circulation) and "evaluated them based on their… Continue Reading
According to a NY Times report (alt link) newspaper sites are beginning to look – and link – outward: Online media outlets like Slate or Salon prominently feature their links to other sites and some, particularly blogs, are built around… Continue Reading
Jewish Week reports (via Media Bloggers): "A group of anonymous bloggers that had published information on their Web sites about a disgraced Rockland County rabbi’s alleged sexual misconduct won a victory when the rabbi withdrew one of two petitions to… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago I recorded some interviews for BBC 5Live‘s "Pods and Blogs" at the e-tribes launch party, held at the top of the BT Tower. I managed to speak to e-tribes founder Simon Grice, who explained why… Continue Reading
Not so long ago, just about everyone in the internet industry was talking about the value of purpose built online communities for online brands. Just in time for the dot-com crash, books like Cluetrain Manifesto taught us (and our venture… Continue Reading
At the end of last week, I found myself running another half day editorial workshop for people who are or will soon be writing or managing a BBC blog as part of our currently trial. This time I was helped… Continue Reading
I’ve recently been looking into how to cut the costs of the various services I subscribe to: 4 megabyte broadband, hotbird satellite with channel package, mobile phone with data add-on, international calls from said mobile and landline (yes, I know… Continue Reading
Del.icio.us, diggtailrank, furl, reddit, shoutwire and other “link aggregators” and “social bookmarking” services have been compared by Lycos Webmonkey. Never heard of any of them? It’s time to try. The results? Lycos reckons that shoutwire, which I’d never heard of,… Continue Reading