Building Safer Social Networks

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 Good

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Those Idle Canadians

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

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Pastures New

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

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Reasons to be Cheerful

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

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Yeah, OK. It’s Web 7.0

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:

Top

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More than Half Australians Download TV?

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

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