Last Friday I received an email from a journalist writing a story about MySpace.com for The Independent on Sunday. Reading through the questions he’d emailed me, it was fairly obvious the article was going to be a hatchet job on… Continue Reading
I’m always going on about how innovative guardian.co.uk has been recently. Ok, so the Comment is Free project isn’t really as groundbreaking as Emily Bell hyped it up to be – in a nutshell, it’s a whole bunch of blogs… Continue Reading
Craig Newmark started Craigslist.org over 11 years ago. Since that time, it’s emerged, almost by stealth, to become one of the 10 busiest websites on the internet. Craigslist’s 10 million unique users a month post 5 million, generating 2.5 billion… Continue Reading
Businessweek is reporting that Facebook is for sale. The owners of the privately held company have turned down a $750 million offer and hope to fetch as much as $2 billion in a sale – and Business Week reckons that… Continue Reading
Forum One is organising Online Community Camp , a gathering of online community practitioners — managers, developers, business people, tools providers, funders — to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities. Those involved in online… Continue Reading
I’m not doing a very good job of writing up some of the stuff I’ve been reading recently but still wanted to draw them to your attention: A behind the scenes look at the launch of The Guardian’s Free Your… Continue Reading
A chatroom spat turned expensive for Tracy Williams, a college lecturer from Oldham, Greater Manchester, after she lost a libel case brought against her by Michael Keith-Smith in the High Court. The Court heard that Williams described Keith-Smith as "lard… Continue Reading
The following entry was written by guest blogger Nancy White of Full Circle Associates. Nancy is an internationally recognised expert in understanding and practicing online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups – work which requires her to… Continue Reading
I’m pleased to announce that Matthew Allen, Associate Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University has joined the list of guest bloggers. Matthew is President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an academic association dedicated to the advancement of… Continue Reading
Each day next week (20-24 March), cybersoc.com will be publishing posts by a series of special guest bloggers to help mark the one year anniversary of cybersoc.com (the blog, not the site which is 10 this year). The guest bloggers… Continue Reading