A few days ago at work I got an email from a student doing a dissertation about the BBC. On her course, the lecturers always talked about the BBC being a model upon which news and media organisations around the… Continue Reading
Using data from technorati, Ben Fry has created an image showing how the top 50 blogs are linked to each other. For the full size pdf, and accompanying explanation, see the newyorkmetro.com article: I guess it’s probably going to be… Continue Reading
Here’s the headlines and links – you didn’t really think I’d write all this stuff up, did you?! Kids love myspace:Identity Production in Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart Myspace by Danah Boyd So do the police: Teens Arrested after posting…on… Continue Reading
In the most recent installment of his series of articles for BBC News Online, Dan Gillmor suggests that journalists play a part in the education of citizen journalists: "Professional journalists should also be helping citizen journalists, with education and training.… Continue Reading
Ian Mayes, president of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen, points out that The Guardian and Sky News were duped last week when they ran a user contributed photo, purportedly of a fire in Dorset (England), that turned out to be… Continue Reading
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been using talkr to create mp3’s of posts here on cybersoc.com. Now you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes. [Thanks to Przemion for helping me figure out how to link to the subscription page!]
I’m always going on about how innovative guardian.co.uk has been recently. Ok, so the Comment is Free project isn’t really as groundbreaking as Emily Bell hyped it up to be – in a nutshell, it’s a whole bunch of blogs… Continue Reading
I’m starting to think we need an acronym to easily describe the whole class of “web 2.0”, “social software” and “citizen media” conferences that are popping up in the calendar. (YES, it’s exciting that so much is going on but… Continue Reading
Craig Newmark started Craigslist.org over 11 years ago. Since that time, it’s emerged, almost by stealth, to become one of the 10 busiest websites on the internet. Craigslist’s 10 million unique users a month post 5 million, generating 2.5 billion… Continue Reading
What does mainstream media do when it discovers user generated content? Try to build their own platform, assert ownership over content and sell it then sell the concept to other newspapers – of course. yourhub.com, the brainchild of the Denver… Continue Reading