Archive for January 21st, 2008

Social networking fans ‘lose’ £6.5bn

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Social media, MySpace, Facebook | No Comments »

Via netimperative, social networking apparently costs UK companies more than £6.5 billion (not million): The recent popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are costing UK corporations ... Read more..

Facebook on your Nokia phone

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Social media, Mobile, Wifi, Facebook | No Comments »

Via Jemima Kiss at the Guardian (and in turn via paidContent.org), Facebook is coming soon to a phone near you. Be afraid. Be very afraid: Facebook is negotiating with Nokia over a ... Read more..

The darker side of citizen journalism

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Social media, Regional press | No Comments »

Via Mother Jones, citizen journalism gets a bad press: ...the newspaper industry's embrace of "citizen journalism" has a downside. Reader-submitted content rarely gets vetted by editors. In the same month as ... Read more..

AFP reporters barred from using Wikipedia and Facebook as sources

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in International press | No Comments »

Via Journalism.co.uk, AFP reporters can no longer use 'virtual' sources: Agence France Presse (AFP) has banned its journalists from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources, the agency's London bureau chief told ... Read more..