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Theme : blogging
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Speaking blogs to power
It seemed worth highlighting the unfortunate blogging saga involving billionaire and Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov (here's his wikipedia entry - it should be interesting to see how this develops).Earlier this month Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan, posted a strongly worded, um, 'critique' of Usmanov containing a number of allegations regarding his conduct during his rise up the ranks of rich post-communists. Usmanov denies them and via law firm Schillings forced the post to be removed...
from : petebradwell
26th September 2007
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Scoopt code of conduct
Code of conduct for citizen journalism photography site Scoopt.
from : petebradwell
23rd April 2007
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That was a party political broadcast...
I’ve been following an interesting thread unpicked from the loud, often shapeless YouTube quilt. On March 5th a YouTube user called ParkRidge47 uploaded a video called Vote Different. It is a riff on Apple’s 1984 ad. There was some intrigue, however, over the question of who had made the explicitly partisan video...
from : petebradwell
3rd April 2007
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I think this is complimentary
I've only just noticed we got a mention on Guardian Unlimited at the beginning of December in a piece about blogging. As somebody who's written a couple of pamphlets now I'm not sure how to take their comment: "Demos has been publishing daily since February under the title Demos Greenhouse and thankfully using more accessible language than in their other publications."
from : paulmiller
16th January 2004
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Watch out for word bursts
Interesting article about some new research on 'word bursts' in New Scientist. This is basically collecting data about the frequency with which words are used."...the method could be applied to weblogs to track new social trends. For example, identifying word bursts in the hundreds of thousands of personal diaries now on the web could help advertisers quickly spot an emerging craze."I've been thinking about adding a similar feature to the Greenhouse to give us some idea about our own...
from : paulmiller
20th February 2003
