If a dispute between The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia and the publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News isn’t settled by midnight tonight, the union has announced that instead of simply manning picket lines, members will immediately… Continue Reading
The American mid-term elections are today (Tuesday 07 Nov) and lots of bloggers – and I’m not just talking about the BBC, Daily Kos and Instapundit – are likely to be providing coverage of the elections, last minute campaigning and… Continue Reading
Regular readers of cybersoc.com will recall that back in August I got kicked out of Google Adsense. I appealed to Google, asking for them to spefically disclose what, if any, evidence they had that I had broken their terms and… Continue Reading
Lisa Williams has posted an invitation for a sneak peek under the hood of placeblogger, a project she’s been working on. Placeblogger will be a searchable directory and aggregator of placeblogs which she explains are: Placeblogs — sites that focus… Continue Reading
Last night I was out for a meal and drinks with some friends and started explaining how I’d recently installed some code on my blog that allows me to track visitors like I’ve never been able to before. A few… Continue Reading
blogger Iain Dale on BBC News 24 Originally uploaded by robinh1973. A few weeks ago I fell asleep on my sofa and woke up at half past midnight to find political blogger Iain Dale on my telly, reading through the… Continue Reading
Yesterday I received an email from Google Adsense telling me that I had been kicked out of the programme. I’ve been using Adsense to monetize my blog and other websites for about a year now and have been pleased with… 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
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
Deconsumption has made another excellent post in follow-up, and furtherance, of the netvocates thing. I followed a link to a post about “anti-network neutrality astroturfing comment spam” on The Abstract Factory. Commentors there reckon that a person calling themselves “Stevens33”… Continue Reading