By Ian, on December 19th, 2006 The UK Home Office’s Child Protection Task Force has produced a draft industry discussion document called Good Practice Guidance for Social Networking and User Interactive Service. What you and I would probably call Web 2.0. Once finished and public, the document will seemingly supplant the existing guidelines in the report (PDF) published last year on GoodContinue reading Building Safer Social Networks By Ian, on December 18th, 2006 No offence meant. This story makes me wish I lived in Canada, basically. Canada has the highest number of blog readers per internet-head of any of the countries measured in recent comScore research conducted in North America and Western Europe. The US is surprisingly low compared to its neighbour, lower than any countries but Italy Continue reading Those Idle Canadians By Ian, on December 18th, 2006 I’m delighted to be able to tell you that I’ve accepted the post of full-time editor on the New Media Knowledge (NMK) website, starting in the new year. NMK is a learning and business information hub for companies and individuals working in UK digital media. I’ve been writing this blog as a hobby for the Continue reading Pastures New By Ian, on December 18th, 2006 I reckon the ‘Time Person of the Year is You’ story (please see what looks like nearly every other blog) has probably been exhausted for whatever wisdom it may have contained. It’s still worth a dip inside, though, for the Web 2.0 article backing up the choice. Five reasons that ‘bubble 2.0′ is different Continue reading Reasons to be Cheerful By Ian, on December 17th, 2006 ZdNet is running a little poll inviting readers to come up with the ‘Top Ten differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0′. The writer manages to offer AJAX (wrong) and O’Reilly’s alleged service mark on the expression (which he’s also wrong about). Reader CobraA1 cleverly subverts the poll in his/her comment: TopContinue reading Yeah, OK. It’s Web 7.0 By Ian, on December 16th, 2006 Zeropaid reports on a new survey conducted in Australia. More than half the respondents said that they regularly downloaded TV shows from the Internet: 15.75% said they downloaded a TV program at least once a week, 25.5% said twice or more, with 12% responding once a month, and 17.5% hardly ever. 57.25% said they downloaded by episode, with Continue reading More than Half Australians Download TV? | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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