Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending much of the afternoon and evening in the company of Nancy White. She stopped by the BBC for an informal chat with a wide range of BBC people involved in building and managing… Continue Reading
The other day I noticed (thanks Martin!) that a spam blog was taking my RSS feed and republishing content from cybersoc.com elsewhere [see technorati’s tracking of the links]. Spam blogs basically take content from RSS feeds, republish it, then reap… Continue Reading
Back in April, I posted a review of my new macbook pro and said that it gets hot enough that I could probably fry an egg on it. I knew then that if I could just muster the courage to… Continue Reading
Sometimes I feel like I’m running a one man campaign to encourage mainstream media organisations, the one I work for included, to acknowledge and link to the great content that’s already available on the internet. Make no mistake, I really… Continue Reading
I started keeping tally of Jarvis v Dell, the rematch, yesterday afternoon, when I noticed that Jarvis had decided to go on the offensive against Dell’s new, somewhat half-assed attempt at a customer service blog. I awarded Dell a point… Continue Reading
Typepad had a bit of a hiccup yesterday so I’ve had to repost a number of posts. This has not just confused the order of posts here, but has also made my RSS feed look a bit odd. Sorry for… Continue Reading
A helpful email I just received from Martin Stabe at the Press Gazette points out that the "new" research I blogged about in the previous post was actually itself more than 36 hours old. Martin, by the way, blogged along… Continue Reading
NPR reports that "Physicists at the University of Notre Dame and in Hungary have figured out that the prime of life for a Web news story is the first 36 hours. After that, few people read it. The physicists say… Continue Reading
Dell bashing has to be one of Jeff Jarvis’s favourite pastimes. Last year he raised and led an army of bloggers to amplify his complaints about the company’s customer service. Now it seems that Dell has learned a lesson and… Continue Reading
Over the past month or so, the Washington Post has been quietly allowing users to post comments on articles appearing on it’s website. [Just in case anyone is interested in the technology they’re using, I’ve had a look and it… Continue Reading