I’m about halfway through the process of moving Cybersociology Magazine, the loosely peer reviewed online journal I ran from 1997-1997, before there really was such a thing as a peer reviewed online journal, from my old Demon Internet webspace to… Continue Reading
Ten years ago today – on 05 October 1996 – I uploaded the first webpage of what was to become cybersoc.com. The waybackmachine has a page from 16 April 1997 when the site was just a single page and the… Continue Reading
I’m taking a short break and, after some deliberation and quite a few comments from you, I’ve decided to let the blog have a break too. Looking for some good stuff? I’m subscribed to about 60 feeds that you might… Continue Reading
I always find it strange how a post that’s several months old can suddenly get a link from a big site and go bonkers with traffic. Remember a few months back when I started posting about Netvocates, the company that… Continue Reading
paperless German “newspaper” launches “citizen journalism” site: Readers-Edition.de Danah Boyd’s social networking researchers and research roundup Pew: Future of the Internet II (study) can you get traffic from social bookmarking / recommendations? caught astroturfing ways of measuring blog popularity (from… Continue Reading
reuters gives $100,000 to Jay Rosen’s project newassignment.net Dan Gillmor asks: do public media believe in the public? Robert at NPR thinks the BBC Manchester blog is getting public broadcasting closer to the holy grail… my Bivings inspired web 2.0… Continue Reading
Here are my del.icio.us links for the first week of September 2006 – most of which I haven’t had time to blog about. If you are using del.icio.us please do feel free to add me to your network. You can… Continue Reading
HuckaBuck calls itself a “web 2.0 search engine… bridging the gap between traditional search engines and newer socially powered sites.” The owners behind the site explain their mission: We started Huckabuck in an effort to research, explore, and join the… Continue Reading
At 18.27 GMT +1 (that’s London time to you and me) today my blog started getting visits. Dozens and dozens – over 250 in two hours – all visiting the post I made on Wednesday about the guy who lost… Continue Reading
Quite literally. The Guardian is looking for two podcast producers and Associated Northcliffe Digital, the digital division of Associated Newspapers, is hiring for the role of communities assistant (email Ilana). My friend Jude also wants to hear from freelance podcasters… Continue Reading