WSJ on the impact of English Libel Law on American Free Speech (hat tip Marshall Manson) “England has become a choice venue for libel plaintiffs from around the world, including those who seek to intimidate critics whose works would be… Continue Reading
Presentations – Games as Journalism « Just Another Meme Vector I haven’t had a chance to read this yet but am looking forward to finding the time to do so. I reckon this is a good find… (tags: games journalism… Continue Reading
Rangers in the Mara Triangle area of the Masai Mara are rather busy these days – trying to stop illegal poaching, worrying about colleagues shot by poachers and, now, twittering and blogging. Those of us who have been following them… Continue Reading
Below are the visitor statistics for cybersoc.com, as reported by statcounter (and let’s not even start debating their validity!) There were 6,046 "unique visitors", generating a total of 7,264 page loads. That’s an average of 202 daily unique visitors and… Continue Reading
cowbite.org: Follow Channel 4 News on Twitter “One feed from the studio, and one from the newsroom blogger. Neither dish out headlines, rather they give the snippets of goss from behind the scenes.” (tags: channel4 news twitter news2.0) Speechification –… Continue Reading
BBC World Service | Bangladesh River Journey The BBC’s voyage through Bangladesh in 2007, looking at how a heating planet changes people’s lives, used twitter, flickr, maps mashups and more to tell the story… (tags: bbc maps mashup flickr twitter… Continue Reading
Conversation Agent: Citizen Journalists and Responsibility includes a really nice visualisation of an “emerging media ecosystem” (tags: Journalism journalisttraining citizenjournalism) Book me a holiday and then find me a date – outsourcing is getting personal – Times Online (tags: outsourcing)… Continue Reading
LiveNewsCameras.com – Watch Live Streaming News From the USA & World – Beta Version Live video streams from news channels, primarily in the US (tags: news video live)
StartYourTube.com – start your own video sharing site apparently… (tags: video videosharing) Jeff Jarvis v Michael Tomasky -a debate about citizen journalism (really enjoyed this!) Veteran journalists may be nowhere near that news – because, as journalists, they had not… Continue Reading
Two weeks ago, Mayhill Fowler, who had gained access to a fundraising speech by Barack Obama because she had previously donated to his campaign, rocked Obama’s campaign by posting audio of his controversial speech about blue collar Pennsylvanians. Fowler’s recording… Continue Reading