Chengdu Earthquake Photos From Public’s Mobile Phones Beat Newspapers
We’re all aware of how the news media has been changed by the use of photos and video shot by members of the public and sent in to news desks. They provide the instant captures of the moment events...
View ArticleChengdu Earthquake Captured By Citizen Mobile: Video
We covered yesterday morning how photos taken by individuals in Chengdu, China and posted to a mobile social network site had beaten news reports to publishing the story. Now we’ll focus on the videos...
View ArticleChengdu Earthquake: More Citizen Video: Devastation And Flight on Motorbike
Further to our pieces on normal people taking photos and videos of the actual earthquake in Chengdu and it effects, we’re grateful to Garth who sent us this video. It’s shot in Chengdu and shows the...
View ArticleeBay Wife Auction Gets Police Caution: Internet Freedoms Eroding?
It looks like there could be something seriously wrong happening in the world of the Internet. Police are taking action against individuals for seemingly the most ridiculous reasons. You may have been...
View ArticleMicrosoft DRM: A Blunt Knife
What a blunt knife Microsoft’s DRM is. We don’t know if you’ve noticed before, but some time in the last, Microsoft made change to their Media Player, stopping screen grabs of videos that are playing....
View ArticleLogosphere: Kitchen Table Lingo Wants Your Words
It appears that no-one is immune to Internet fads these days, even traditional venerable institutions such as Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are getting involved. (Amazingly the OED is only 80 years...
View ArticleBlog Post Leads To London Major Advisor Resigning
Citizen Journalism site, The-Latest, has been told by the Press Association that they are the first UK citizen journalism site to force the resignation of a public official. Marc Wadsworth from...
View ArticleRedlasso Gets Copyright Legal Action From Fox and NBC
NBC Universal, Fox News Network and Fox Television Stations have filed copyright infringement legal action against Redlasoo, a site that makes video content from TV available to bloggers and provides...
View ArticleLisa Nova Plays A Twitter Whore
Lisa Nova is well known on YouTube as making amusing videos where she either plays a character or makes a joke of other people, at their expense. Her latest target Twitter, or rather Twitter users....
View ArticleFacebook & Intel Say I Love You
Looks like Facebook and Intel are happy to tell everyone that they’re going out together – and Intel will be providing their server processors. Facebook users the world over will be breathing a sign of...
View ArticleFOWA 08: Suw Charman: Psychology And Addition To Web Sites
We’re at FOWA listening to speakers and popping around chatting to people. Suw stepped in due to a last noshow but presented a fascinating talk. It’s slightly in note form, but the essential are there....
View ArticleOasis Joins The Growing Band Of Twitter Fans
A couple of new Twitter converts came to our attention last night, despite what Nick Curtis thinks of it. Oasis, who are on a tour in the US at the moment, jumped on to Twitter a couple of days ago...
View ArticleWhopper Sacrifice: Confusing Facebook App
Burger King has releases a rather strange Facebook App – Whopper Sacrifice. In exchange for you un-friending (burning) your Facebook ‘friends,’ it gives you credit towards a Whopper. Burn ten and...
View Article#uksnow Twitter Map Mashup & Skiing To Work!
Another day, another use of Twitter. Today it’s being used to report the levels of snow falls around the UK. All very useful individually, but the power of a mass of people reporting this information...
View ArticleAudioBoo: G20 Boost Take Up
Well done to the Best Before team who are behind AudioBoo, they’re really building user numbers and adding features. AudioBoo, if you haven’t come across it already, lets you record and post audio...
View ArticleDocumentally Rocks Much Social Media On Cameron Coverage
Social Media reporting show a much better angle that the National media.
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