Category Archives: Social Web
New Media, New Responsibilities?
Some three years after The Guardian redeveloped its website to include new media the site is still leading the way in online reporting. But this does not mean that it always get it right. In 2007 a Reuters photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, was killed in Iraq after being fired upon by a U.S. helicopter gunship. The [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
Dublin City University’s Silver Surfers
WHILE SENATOR DAN BOYLE was attempting to bring down the government last week with the social networking site Twitter, JJ Higgins was doing something slightly more worthwhile. He was sending his first email. JJ (62), a retired postal worker, is among a growing number of older internet users in Ireland. A recent survey by the [...]
Watch The Guardian do Web 2.0 Reporting Right
Have a look at this article from The Guardian. Journalist Matthew Weaver is creating a ‘live article’ tracking the weather conditions in the UK. This is how the print media should be responding to the social web and rich media. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jan/06/snow-day-live-blog
Twitter Lists Big Secret
With hits to the social networking site apparently flat-lining the developers at Twitter are keeping busy with secret additions to their new List feature. Scouring the code this author has discovered that Twitter has plans to allow its users to directly add “people, businesses or brands” to their lists via a search box on their [...]
Happy Birthday Firefox
Firefox celebrates its’ 5th birthday this week and only five years after its’ shaky launch the browser has grown to become the main rival to Internet Explorer, reducing IE’s market share from over 90% at the start of the decade to below 40%. But Firefox should never have been, with a teenage developer, a parent [...]
Google Waving not Drowning
What would email look like if we set out to invent it today Wave and Drowning They claim it will revolutionise personal communication, they say it will change how we arrange our lives but Wave, Google’s latest web app, mightn’t be as ground-breaking as Google say. Getting a Google Wave account is a difficult thing. [...]
Freedom of Tweets
“There is no news tonight” reported the BBC one April evening in 1930. History repeated itself in 2009 when the Guardian told its readers of a story it couldn’t report. In what the editor of the Guardian described as “a fantastic own goal” the oil trading company Trafigura managed to obtain a so-called “super injunction” [...]
Social Archiving
The governing body of the Auschwitz Museum in Poland today launched an official Facebook profile for the concentration camp. The governing body hope to use the social networking site to promote awareness of the Auschwitz Camp to a younger audience. “If our mission is to educate the younger generation to be responsible in the contemporary [...]
Mashing my Thesis
“by 2010…(Mashups) will be the dominant model (80%) for the creation of new enterprise applications ” (Rust 2008) A few people have been asking me about my Multimedia Undergrad thesis so I thought I’d just take a few minutes to go over what we did. Mashup For my thesis myself and a few friends set [...]