Swine ‘flu: nothing to sneeze at

April 30, 2009 in Current affairs, Social Media
Tags: pandemic, Social Media, swine flu, twitter

So of course everyone’s slightly obsessing over swine ‘flu at the moment. I was out of the office on leave (no, not in Mexico) when the news broke, and I rather thought that when I got back to my desk on Wednesday the whole organisation would be diverted to working full time on pandemic contingencies.
Alas, [...]

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Swine flu: Twitter’s power to misinform
Did Twitter’s coverage of the breaking of swine flu point to a problem with microblogging?
(tags: twitter socialmedia journalism swineflu)

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BBC | Magistrate resigns in Twitter row
Should magistrates be able to report the outcomes of cases to people in the area, once they’ve been discussed in open court? [...]

Film review: Better off not Knowing

April 23, 2009 in Films
Tags: alex proyas, nicolas cage

Another film review! after months of not seeing any films at the cinema I seem to be getting back into the habit, and looking forward to seeing In The Loop, State Of Play and Star Trek sometime soon. But before that, sadly, there is … Knowing.
I saw this film on its opening weekend, and didn’t [...]

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The government on Twitter
Dave Cole's taken the NDS feeds and put them on Twitter.
(tags: twitter coi news nds)

Film review: Is it the right one to go out for?

April 15, 2009 in Films
Tags: movies, swedish, vampire

If I was to ask you for a stereotype of a Swedish movie set in the early 1980s, with a title drawn from a song by the well known British king of mirth Morrissey, you might suggest: long, slow, depressing, gloomy, and full of snow. And to be honest, if you applied those adjectives to [...]

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‘Starlog’ magazine: R.I.P., and thanks for all the geekery
Very sad to see one of the magazines of my childhood fold like this.
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Twitter – the new police tool
Now the US police are issuing bulletins via Twitter.
(tags: twitter crime polcie)

Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts
The New York Times on Twitter [...]

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How disaster struck when Labour took on a blogger
Does the Damian McBride resignation suggest difficult times ahead for bloggers and social media in government?
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BBC | Classified adverts booming online
Classified ads live – but they’ve moved online from their traditional local papers. And one US comapny Craigslist seems [...]

Google to buy Twitter?

April 3, 2009 in Social Media

So today’s hot rumour is that Google and Twitter are in ‘advanced talks’ about the search engine buying the microblogging phenomenon. Is the story true – and would it be a good idea if it were?
It’s been confirmed that Google and Twitter are talking, but it’s less clear what they are actually talking about: it [...]

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A Guide to Better Web-Working From Your iPhone
Tips for to-do lists, note-takers and more for your iPhone to increase your productivity.
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Hot tea and oesophageal (gullet) cancer
Interesting background as to how the headline-grabbing finding was arrived at – showing deeper thought and more insight than usual with such research!
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F1 season is back!

April 3, 2009 in Blog Business
Tags: formula 1

If you’re not a motor sports fan, you may not have noticed that the Formula 1 season is back underway – although it did so with a bang of controversy, so you may have seen the headlines even if you were trying to avoid mention of the Grand Prix season.
Now I’m not going to write [...]