This morning I’ve been testing kyte.tv, a new – quite revolutionary – service that allows me to stream live video from my 3G cameraphone (Nokia N70) to a flash video player embedded into any website or blog (see below). A… Continue Reading
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks mulling over three presentations I’ll be giving over the next two weeks: 09/10 May: Karlstads Universitet in Sweden – I’ll be giving a 45 minute presentation at Medborgarmedier (flyer pdf) as part of… Continue Reading
Because April was an unusual month, I’ve spent a little bit more time looking at the monthly statistics cybersoc.com than I normally would. For the 15 days leading up to the horrific Virginia Tech massacre, this blog served up an… Continue Reading
I just made my 1000th bookmark on del.icio.us – just one year one month and one day after I joined. That’s around 3 bookmarks per day, give or take a few percentage points that aren’t worth revisiting the math anxiety… Continue Reading
my_telegraph_blog_small Originally uploaded by telegraph_media_group. The Daily Telegraph is set to become the first (as far as I’m aware) national UK newspaper to launch reader blogs. According to Shane Richmond, the Telegraph’s Blogging and Community Editor, “My Telegraph allows any… Continue Reading
In the Guardian today… twice Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Cybersoc.com is in the Guardian Media section twice today. Bobbie Johnson and Conor Clarke’s America’s first user-generated confession looks at whether the Virginia Tech shootings, and subsequent user-generated confession video, were… Continue Reading
(bringing new readers up to speed) When it began to become clear that a horrific tragedy was unfolding at Virginia Tech University earlier this week, I did what a lot of bloggers did and looked to the blogs. I quickly… Continue Reading
The past few days have pointed to a future where audiences are likely to look first to blogs and other forms of participatory media for first hand accounts of emerging stories before turning to the mainstream media. Of course mainstream… Continue Reading
One of the livejournal blogs I found yesterday and linked to from here contains the account of Kate, written by her friend Paul, and tells how a gunman entered her classroom at Norris Hall and began shooting. After the gunman… Continue Reading
Last week’s bloggers open house at the Daily Telegraph was quite interesting because much of the discussion ended up being about that achille’s heel of online community management: moderation. Participants in online discussions hate moderation. This is fairly easy to… Continue Reading