Archive for November, 2008
This week, talks between Facebook and Twitter about a takeover of the microblogging service fell through. And good thing too.
Despite the economic crunch – Facebook might have completed its latest financing round successfully before things started to bite, but it’s still not breaking even and has to keep half an eye on where the next [...]
I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source
It’s true, I found out about the developments in Mumbai about 40-50 minutes before CNN or BBC got around to posting a news alert.
(tags: web2.0 twitter socialmedia news mumbai journalism)
Tweeting the terror: How social media reacted to Mumbai
The day social media appeared to [...]
The big news story of the week is undoubtedly the Pre-Budget Report on Monday – although the name doesn’t do justice to what was in reality a quite extraordinary emergency full Budget in effect. So how did the government online presence manage in reporting the developments?
The immediate place I would think of looking is the [...]
links for 2008-11-26
Why NCIS became a hit show
It should be a minor show, a spin-off from a series (JAG) that was never particularly impressive. Instead, last week in the US it notched up a record-high 18.8 million viewers—”more than any other show on television for the week” according to the NYT. And I was in [...]
Well, has there been enough coverage of online worlds for you this week? Unfortunately, it’s all been about how an online affair – ‘edultery’ – in Second Life led to a real world divorce.
Oh, and add to that a side order of old chestnuts in the form of the old “addicted to computer games” perennial, [...]
Given the current consultation on digital inclusion being undertaken by the Department of Communities and Local Government, there’s a lot of talk about how to include the 17 million or so people in the UK who are digitally and socially excluded because they still do not use computers and the Internet.
It’s difficult for those of [...]
links for 2008-11-15
How Would You Improve Twitter?
Suggestions from the crowd
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links for 2008-11-14
How do avatars have sex?
And the BBC follow-up on the ‘affair’ story.
(tags: secondlife)
How South West News got its divorce scoop in Second Life
(tags: secondlife journalism)
Internet affair leads to couple’s divorce
Second Life leads to real life scandal
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Oh My Science — replacing god with [...]
Within a day of the US election results confirming that Barack Obama had beaten John McCain, a new official website had appeared: change.gov, the Office of the President-Elect.
I have no idea what technology it’s based on, but it to my eyes it has a certain WordPress look to it. And there is of course a [...]
And so it’s actually happened. The American electorate did something I wasn’t sure they would be able to bring themselves to do: they put a Democrat back in the White House.
President Barack Obama – who’d have thought it, just two or three years back? Even today it feels … Unreal. A dream.
At the end of [...]
links for 2008-11-04
John Cusack: No Currency Left to Buy the Big Lies
The actor gives his forthright view on the US elections. Very well written, too, and it’s nice to see people calling the Republicans to account for some of their outrageous lies, smears, slurs and breathtaking two-faced tactics.
(tags: uspolitics johncusack politics)
BBC | The hi-tech election
The [...]
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