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
Yahoo is currently beta testing (US only) ZoneTag, a system that allows users to instantly tag cameraphone photos with locational data (example) when uploading them to flickr. Linked up to google maps or, more likely, the similar yahoo version, this… Continue Reading
The New York Times today carries an interesting article (registration required – free for 7 days) by Richard Siklos who says that "the new new thing in media is getting paid for the homemade". Here are some snippets (italics) along… Continue Reading
According to Journalism.co.uk, the Guardian has now recruited over 200 columnists and expert contributors for their "comment is free" project. The Guardian’s Emily Bell recently told a conference of the Online Publishers Association that "One of the strongest resources of… Continue Reading
Like any website that attracts many thousands of teenagers, myspace also seems to have attracted the unwanted attention of sexual predators. On Monday, a man was arrested and charged in Fontana, California after a group of boys baited him with… Continue Reading
A colleague of mine pointed out that several of the BBC’s Radio One DJ’s (including Jo Whiley, Chris Moyles, Huw Stephens, and Bethan Elfyn) have profiles on myspace. Ok, so the comments on their profiles look a bit like billboards… Continue Reading
This morning I came across two interesting studies on tagging: Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? By Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin A social analysis of tagging (or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a social one) by Rashmi Sinha… Continue Reading
Cybersoc.com is giving away a free one year flickr Pro account*. But why?! Oh you sceptical cybersoc.com readers just don’t know a freebie when you see one, do you? There’s no catch and no, flickr isn’t paying me to say… Continue Reading
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has published a new paper about the effect of the internet on social ties. In my own MPhil thesis, I looked at the implications of internet use upon one’s friendships and pre-existing communities.… Continue Reading
BBC News is reporting that myspace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media, is to launch a UK site “within 30 days”. Although there was a backlash when Fox purchased the site last year, with reports that some… Continue Reading