I’m delighted to be able to tell you that I’ve accepted the post of full-time editor on the New Media Knowledge (NMK) website, starting in the new year. NMK is a learning and business information hub for companies and individuals working in UK digital media. I’ve been writing this blog as a hobby for the last [...]
December 18, 2006
I reckon the ‘Time Person of the Year is You’ story (please see what looks like nearly every other blog) has probably been exhausted for whatever wisdom it may have contained. It’s still worth a dip inside, though, for the Web 2.0 article backing up the choice. Five reasons that ‘bubble 2.0′ is different from the [...]
December 17, 2006
ZdNet is running a little poll inviting readers to come up with the ‘Top Ten differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0′. The writer manages to offer AJAX (wrong) and O’Reilly’s alleged service mark on the expression (which he’s also wrong about). Reader CobraA1 cleverly subverts the poll in his/her comment: Top 10 reasons why it should [...]
December 16, 2006
Zeropaid reports on a new survey conducted in Australia. More than half the respondents said that they regularly downloaded TV shows from the Internet: 15.75% said they downloaded a TV program at least once a week, 25.5% said twice or more, with 12% responding once a month, and 17.5% hardly ever. 57.25% said they downloaded by episode, [...]
December 15, 2006
I don’t normally do gossip – skip right past if you’re here for information. Ermm yeah, past the next one, too. But WTF?! And for once, these are people I actually know. So you know about the Techcrunch UK Fiasco, which followed the Le Web 3 Fiasco? Sounds like madness, right? Time to cop a bit of [...]
December 15, 2006
What follows was written for an offline magazine I work for called ICT for Education. It will be very much too basic for anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis (off you go). However, it may be useful for someone who stumbles along here looking for basic Web 2.0 applications they can get for free. The [...]
December 15, 2006
Mmm. ‘Thank you’, Simon, for tagging me with the ‘Five Things You Don’t Know About Me’ meme. But as it is the end of term, here goes: I tried to learn to play the guitar at school. Thanks to deep-rooted unmusicality, I never got past the first eight bars of ‘Pretty Vacant’. My first snog was in [...]
December 14, 2006
The BBC reports predictions from research company Gartner that blogging will peak at the 100mn mark in 2007: Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer said the reason for the levelling off in blogging was due to the fact that most people who would ever start a web blog had already done so. He said those who loved blogging were [...]
December 14, 2006
Techcrunch supremo Michael Arrington has suspended Techcrunch UK and fired editor Sam Sethi following negative coverage of the Le Web 3 conference. In particular, conference organiser Loic Le Meur told Sam he was an ‘asshole’ in a comment on the blog following criticism of the conference. Arrington apparently decided that Sethi’s decision to draw attention [...]
December 13, 2006
Updated: Sony owns up: From MediaPost: Sony Wednesday released a statement acknowledging that the blog was phony. “Sony Computer Entertainment America developed alliwantforxmasisapsp.com as a humorous site targeting those interested in getting a PSP system this holiday season,” it read. “We’ve now added a posting that provides this clarification to consumers visiting the site.” The company [...]
December 13, 2006
The Attention Company has released details of a poll revealing that people are surprisingly relaxed about sharing information over the Internet. The company speculates that since the Second World War, privacy has become commonplace leading to a sense of anonymity and alienation in modern society. The Internet and blogging offers an opportunity for people to [...]
December 18, 2006