Journalism.co.uk :: BBC embraces Russian bloggers with Live Journal partnership The BBC and blogging platform LiveJournal.com have jointly launched a citizen journalism project in to connect Russian bloggers to the news service. (tags: bbc bbcblogs livejournal russia) Academic Paper About… Continue Reading
In the run-up to the London Mayoral Election, BBC London has been giving Londoners the opportunity to submit their questions, via youtube video, to each of the main candidates. A selection of questions are then put to the candidates and… Continue Reading
Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) Uses Google Maps on your cell phone and shows you all your Twitter friends as pinpoints on the map. So your Twitter contacts serve as your mobile social network. (tags:… Continue Reading
Today I’ve been working on a tool – I’ve dubbed it UGC Finder – for journalists that uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and filter the results of keyword searches for tagged content and conversations in social networks and media sharing… Continue Reading
EU to Criminalize Internet-Based Incitement to Terrorism | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 19.04.2008 The 27 member states agreed on Friday, April 18, to introduce as new offences “public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment, and training for terrorism”… Continue Reading
Reaching a wider audience or just creating an echo chamber? ยป doctorvee Doctorvee has some thoughts on cross-posting from social networking service to the next. Is it spammy, well, yeh… but it also brings lots of traffic. (tags: spam twitter… Continue Reading
Pulitzer goes to Journo who looked someone up on facebook “So Vargas looked Perkins up on Facebook, and found his profile. “Basically, I clicked “add to friends” and he was actually sitting at his desk at that moment,” Vargas said…”… Continue Reading
The BBC’s Jeremy Paxman doesn’t think very highly of his Editor, Peter Barron’s, attempts to gather content from Newsnight’s audience: "… it’s all available again on the website along with our editor’s pathetic pleas for you to send some of… Continue Reading
seen someone taking photos? Originally uploaded by robinhamman The Metropolitan Police recently launched a new anti-terrorism campaign asking people to contact police if they see someone taking photos in potentially sensitive public places. One such poster reads: “Terrorists use surveillance… Continue Reading
This morning I spent an hour and a half showing a group of journalists at the BBC World Service how I use RSS, social networking services, social bookmarking, my blog and other tools. As I did, it dawned upon me… Continue Reading