This is nice way to lose a few minutes. It’s an embeddable widget that calculates current social media usage – the brainchild of a former BBC staffer Gary Hayes, who is now “director of LAMP in Sydney, Australia, CCO of MUVEDesign (a virtual world & game development company) and Consultant in Social & Transmedia to [...]
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Bit.ly looks at Twitter-based news service A Wired article about Bit.ly’s plans for growth includes a couple of lines about the url shortening service looking at generating a news service based on tweets. ‘When the world’s 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they’re routed through bit.ly’s [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Following on from earlier conversations about what happens to our online lives when we die, I spoke to a Public Trust advisor last week about the issue: Who's going to trawl around the web cancelling your email addresses, subscriptions and social media accounts when you die? And who's going to decide whether and when to pull the plug on your websites?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
More useful tips from journalism.co.uk consulting editor Colin Meek.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Michael Wesch adds another honor to a long list: He is the winner of the national professor of the year award for research and doctoral universities from the Carnegie Foundation.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Via TechCrunch, a list of the top 20 social media sites in 2008: Blogger takes top spot with Facebook, MySpace and Wordpress on its tail.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
John Cleese, who recently popped up on Twitter, has now started appearing over on Seesmic, the video blogging version of Twitter, albeit with a bit of help from a 'delivery system' called Dean and 'Frog'.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Those of you who despair over how much the internet and texting are changing the language, look away. For the rest, here's a post from Jeremy Toeman redefining a few words from today's socially networked world: We are currently in the midst of a transformation, caused in a large part by the evolution of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. These networks are clearly here to stay, and will evolve on their own to introduce new features and services as well as adapt to the changing needs of their users. In the mean-time, I’m noticing that a few very common words are losing their meaning, specifically due to their various implementations online (warning: much sarcasm and cynical writing follows, don’t take it too seriously if you are easily offended)…
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Steve Outing has written a good post about people wanting to upload and share 'news' but not necessarily with news or citizen journalist websites. I’ve started to realize that news organizations would be wise to focus less on creating their own citJ platforms and hoping someone will post something, and more on leveraging the social networks where people already are posting news. My previous post about Twitter touches on this; that micro-blogging service contains (amid all the personal fluff) real news that people are witnessing.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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