MTV news (yes, there is such a thing) reports that having a myspace profile is the latest recruitment method deployed by the US Marines in a bid to counter the declining numbers of new recruits. Five months after its launch,… Continue Reading
Dr. Nora Barnes, Director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has recently published a paper about blogging based on interviews with 74 "authors and managers of blogs". Behind the Scenes in the Blogosphere: Advice… Continue Reading
I was just having a discussion on the phone, with my editor from work, about the key reasons journalists might want to make use of blogs (not to write them, but as a source). I needed to condense the whole… Continue Reading
BBC News Online is looking for internet users with interesting stories about how the internet has changed their lives to be a part of a panel for a feature on the website. I guess that just about anyone who has… Continue Reading
A power outage at a data center used by myspace is reportedly the source of the site’s current downtime. There is likely to be quite a backlash from myspace users who will be wondering why myspace doesn’t have redundent systems… Continue Reading
Earlier this week, I was interviewed by Graham Holliday for a feature at journalism.co.uk. One of the key points I tried to get across in responding to Graham’s questions was that, these days, everyone who works in industry, journalism or… Continue Reading
In a short while I’ll be heading off to the launch of eTribes new – well, I’m not sure what it is – online publishing platform. The Independent recently described eTribes as a "British weblog and personal website company" and… Continue Reading
The good people at CyberJournalist have been mining the Pew Internet and American Life project’s newest research findings. There’s little point in my stealing their thunder since they’ve done a good job of pulling out some tantalising tid-bits and have… Continue Reading
CellJournalist is the latest of several sites hoping to cash in by making the link between "citizen journalists", or in this case citizen snappers, and mainstream media organisations. That doesn’t, of course, make it bad. Nor does the fact that… Continue Reading
Did I read that correctly? Jeff Jarvis seems to have called a truce in his blog-mob-war with Dell: "They even wrote to me — yes, grouchy old me. I got an email last week, while on vacation, noting that in… Continue Reading