I’m going to be appearing live on Nick Lawrence’s radio programme on BBC Radio Norfolk tonight just after 7pm GMT (that’s 2pm EST). He’ll be asking me about the growing importance of online communities in our lives, internet activism and… Continue Reading
This morning I was interviewed by Sony Award winning presenter Roberto Perrone on BBC Three Counties Radio discussing the BBC’s new message board which I blogged about here recently. You can listen or read the transcript on the BBC Beds,… Continue Reading
A new study from the Pew American and Internet Life Project suggests that teenagers are more interested in using the internet to create and share content rather than to just passively browse it. In fact, nearly half of all teenagers,… Continue Reading
With flickr like tagging of content ("folksonomy") all the rage at the moment, I’m surprised we haven’t seen this before but I think the project the BBC launched yesterday, and which I’m working on, is the first message board to… Continue Reading
One of the cool features of typepad and most other blogging services is that they give blog owners the ability to see where their traffic is coming from. Today I’ve had quite a few visits from users of the Daily… Continue Reading
Ever wondered what the people behind different online gaming avatars look like? Photojournalist Robbie Cooper’s photos on BBC News Online let you view into the offline lives of gamers. The artwork’s not bad either…
The talk was interesting. Putnam used all sorts of data as evidence that social capital is in decline. Church attendance is down, fewer people participate in Parent Teacher Organisations, few people go to public meetings. My argument is that most… Continue Reading
I’m sitting here at 2am reading and thinking about the work of Robert Putnam who is giving one of those inspirational internal lunchtime lectures at work tomorrow. Robert Putnam is a Harvard professor and author of Bowling Alone, a book… Continue Reading
According to a University College London review of 24 patient studies, patient participation in online discussions can have health benefits. BBC News Online reports that the researchers looked at "people’s use of interactive computer websites and programmes, which contained information… Continue Reading
BBC News reports on a survey that shows 7 of 10 adults don’t know what a blog is and 9 out of 10 have never heard of podcasting. One of the authors of the report says: "When I asked the… Continue Reading