According to BBC News Online, Radio1 has “staked a claim to a virtual tropical island where it can stage online music festivals and throw exclusive celebrity parties. The rented island exists in online game Second Life and will hold its… 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’m always saying that mainstream media needs to start seeking out and embracing audience content wherever it might exist, even if that means just linking to it rather than supplying the platform and making claims of ownership over the content.… 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
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
A few days ago at work I got an email from a student doing a dissertation about the BBC. On her course, the lecturers always talked about the BBC being a model upon which news and media organisations around the… Continue Reading
Here’s the headlines and links – you didn’t really think I’d write all this stuff up, did you?! Kids love myspace:Identity Production in Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart Myspace by Danah Boyd So do the police: Teens Arrested after posting…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
I’m starting to think we need an acronym to easily describe the whole class of “web 2.0”, “social software” and “citizen media” conferences that are popping up in the calendar. (YES, it’s exciting that so much is going on but… 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