Archive for the 'User Generated Content (UGC)' Category

Blog 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 The-Latest carried out an interview with James McGrath, until recently Boris Johnson’s deputy chief of staff and political advisor.

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Logosphere: 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 old - it’s one of those things that you would have assume had been around since the invention of the print press in Europe by […]

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Microsoft 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.
Clearly Microsoft thought this would be something that would appeal to content owners in fear of their work being taken without […]

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eBay 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.

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Chengdu 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.

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Chengdu 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.

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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 happen and enables viewers of the news to be in places that news crews just can’t […]

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Louis Savy: Sci-Fi London Film Festival: Audio Interview

The London Sci-Fi film festival is on this weekend and sounds like it’s well worth a visit after we spoke to Louis Savy, the Festival Director, last week. They’re tying up with Archos too to show some of the short films.

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FaceBook In The Real World: Video

We’ve all seen the rise of social networks and their replacement by others, as the fashion changes.
Many devoted their lives to MySpace when it arose, collecting as many MySpace ‘friends’ as possible to show others of their ‘friends’ just how ‘popular’ they were.

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YouTube Offers High Quality Video Sharing

Video sharing site starts to serve up high res content.

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