The Virtual Global Taskforce, a multi-national organisation set up to tackle internet child abuse, has won it’s first conviction in a UK court. Twenty-one year old media student Lee Costi was recently sentenced to nine years by Nottingham Crown Court… Continue Reading
Last October I had the chance to hear Robert Putnam, the Bowling Alone guy, speak in front of a small audience and, as it transpired, to ask a question at the end of his talk. I blogged about some initial… Continue Reading
The Web 2.0 Group has created a comprehensive, some would say almost sickenly obsessive, list of “web 2.0” sites and services. Almost every day they add a few which makes it a bit hard to follow which is where this… Continue Reading
mapping flickrs growth Originally uploaded by lynetter. Lynette Webb has used various publicly available statistics to map flickr’s growth [see image]. She’s requested help finding more stats to fill in the already interesting picture and I know that a few… Continue Reading
News International has permanent, full-time jobs for overnight content moderators / discussion hosts. The jobs, advertised here, are office based in London and pay is £17-23k. It looks like whatever News Corp’s new thing (it’s not a myspace job although… Continue Reading
I knew that a lot of people were meeting on internet dating sites but, in all honesty, I had no idea exactly how huge the numbers have become. EHarmony, but one of the main US dating sites, reckons that “over… Continue Reading
On Thursday I’m going to an away day at the Tate Modern that has been organised by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the BBC to get academics and media practicioners working together. I had a look at the… Continue Reading
News International has a number of online community roles up for grabs including Community Editor (#2 in their departmental chart ) and a more general call for CVs. And no, I have no idea if you’ll be working on Page3.com,… Continue Reading
Americans often laugh at what they see as the over-regulation of, well, just about everything in Europe. Now we can laugh, and cringe a bit, at a new law proposed by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, in China a Pennsylvania Republican, author… Continue Reading
I don’t know more than four words of French so there’s always a risk that the blog post by Fabrice Epelboin that I just stumbled upon, L’infrastructure derrière MySpace, may actually be about photos of butts on myspace.com rather than… Continue Reading