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Two Free e-Books on Social Media

March 9, 2010

Two more downloadable social media guides that caught my eye over the last couple of weeks. UGC and The Law Published by moderation company Tempero, this guide helps site owners get to grips with how their social media ventures might fall foul of the law and how to avoid that happening. Relying on former audience members [...]

Surrender! Foucault and Twitter

May 27, 2009

Some of my early hopes for social media, that it represented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renaissance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry. There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media concerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-Michéle Ross. The first of these, The Digital [...]

A Blog Code of Ethics

November 28, 2006

Update: Toulmin was apparently quoted out of context in the original story and the BBC has changed their story to show a more balanced opinion. The Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks blogs should be covered by a voluntary code of practice like that for UK newspapers. The BBC reports that he made the remarks during [...]