The University of Washington’s World Information Access report (WIA) has shown that since 2003, at least 64 people have been arrested for blogging about political issues - for exposing corruption in goverment, the abuse of human rights or for just generally criticising governments. In 2008, it is likely that more bloggers than ever will face arrest as a result of the growing political ... Read more
So it’s almost time for Glastonbury, and it even looks like it might not rain for five days like it did last year. The key accessory for any Glastonbury trip – except for wellies and maybe fancy dress outfit – has to be a flag. So the cast and crew of Neoco were set a ... Read more
Part of the big overhaul coming to Facebook is going to see a wealth of new functionality. Some of this is already trickling through – you may have noticed the very basic chat function on there.
Now you can also have your music added to your message signatures so everyone can see what you are listening ... Read more
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You may have already heard about this YouTube video as its been viewed over 2,700,000 times since it was uploaded two weeks ago. It shows an ‘unsuspecting’ girlfriend being filmed by her boyfriend’s hidden camera while she tries to keep her hula hoop up on Wii Fit. The video was posted in response to a ... Read more
On Tuesday I spent the day at the Being Digital Mashup conference. It was a really interesting and insightful day – although there were way too many pitches crammed into the programme.
For those of you that didn’t attend, I’ve put together a summary of the key predictions from the event, outlining what is going to ... Read more
We enjoyed an interesting lecture last night from the dutch design trio Experimental Jetset…’interesting’ probably being the operative word, as the team seemed to have lacked a little rehersal time when putting their presentation together. However, despite not being as polished as the previous lecture we saw, ‘Digital Pecha Kucha,’ it was entertaining (though perhaps ... Read more
The top 5 social networks in the UK (Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Flickr and Hi5) had a combined total of 38.84 million monthly unique users in April, according to research firm comScore. Yet they have struggled to turn their user popularity into pounds, and recent research by eMarketer has revealed that advertisers will only spend £115m ... Read more
BBC1 has just announced that within the next year, all of its programmes will be simulcast as a live video stream on the internet. This makes it the first of BBC’s analogue TV channels to be aired on the web – ITV has already been simulcasting ITV1, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 for a year.
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New research by the Press Complaints Commission has revealed that nine out of ten people in the UK think there should be tighter regulation of information on social networking sites.
The vast majority of participants said they would like sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace to follow specific rules and regulations to help prevent the ... Read more
Just a reminder that the FUEL conference is next Friday (13th June) at RIBA.
It should be a really interesting and insightful day with presentations and case studies from Innocent, Virgin and successful start-up Moo.com. Sessions will look at how you can use new web tools to interact with existing customers and bring in new ones; ... Read more