EU law will ban companies from writing favourable posts about own products and services “Businesses which write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be from customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from “falsely… Continue Reading
AP Partners with NowPublic.com AP bureaus will work with NowPublic communities in selected locations on ways to enhance regional news coverage, and national AP news desks also may tap the network in breaking news situations where citizen contributors may capture… Continue Reading
MySpace makes $25m per month, claims Murdoch (tags: myspace socialnetworking web2.0 rupertmurdoch) Irish News to appeal libel payout over restaurant review “A leading Northern Ireland daily newspaper tonight instructed its lawyers to lodge an appeal after it was ordered to… Continue Reading
On linkbaiting, SEO’ing and all that other crap | :Ben Metcalfe Blog (tags: links bloggingtechniques blogs) We Media Miami: Mark Glaser spots the “Them” in WeMedia “the people who are losing control have decided to meet — and meet, and… Continue Reading
Local activists use myspace to try to save cinema (tags: St.Albans odeon activism myspace) Message board user breaks leg… culprit apologises 4 pages of posts later A message board user’s leg was broken in a football match. Someone posted, asking… Continue Reading
Wiki Search? Jimmy Wales talks about social powered search… (tags: search find wikipedia bbcnews)
Martin Stabe’s excellent response to a student query about blogging vs journalism This is a post that I’m bound to come back to time and time again… (tags: blogs blogging bloggingtechniques journalisttraining journalism martinstabe) Martin Stabe asks “What’s worse: dead… Continue Reading
Toynbee on Bloggers (in the Press Gazette) Political journalism in Britain is suffering from an “anti-democratic” fever, is too obsessed with blogging and needs to have more respect for Britain’s elected leaders according to Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. (tags: bloggers… Continue Reading
Students in America more likely to access news on BBC website than in local TV or newspaper sites Non-US organisations such as the BBC were frequently used by 21% of teachers while only 15% said the same of local newspapers… Continue Reading
Apple to Pay Bloggers’ Legal Fees; Bloggers get same protection as Journalists After orginal rulling previously overturned, Apple now ordered to pay the legal fees in a case involving two Apple enthusiast sites essentially giving bloggers the same protection as… Continue Reading