Category Journalism

ISPolicemen?

John Naughton turns his eye to the latest attempts by the music industry to stop people sending each other stuff on the interweb: Through a staggering combination of ignorance, inertia, incompetence and paranoia, the record industry missed the significance of…

Social reporting at SICamp

David Wilcox has taken his new Nokia to the Social Innovation Camp this weekend and is putting up some great video – social reporting in action! Incidentally, David tweeted earlier asking how Qik video can be embedded into a WordPress.com…

Private and public collaboration

There is an interesting project underway at RSA Networks, the social network for Royal Society fellows, and, for the moment at least, anyone else who fancies joining in (that’s the category I belong to, by the way). It has been…

William Shaw on Scientology

William Shaw is a great writer, and a great guy. He’s written a number of non-fiction titles, mainly on counter-cultural issues and is now doing some exciting stuff with social media, looking into stuff like uses the blog format to…

Charlie Brooker: Agony Aunt

I love Charlie Brooker’s columns at The Guardian‘s Comment is Free site as much as I love his TV stuff. I’m just catching up on his posts after being offline for a while, and came across this gem: Years ago,…