An article on CNet.com suggests that children born since 1981 are doing more communicating than ever before — albeit through different channels than their predecessors. They’re also used to being in control of their media intake. There’s no evidence cited, and I cringe at the jargon, but I can see the point they’re making about children’s
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Attended the eighth annual Edelman Trust Barometer launch this morning (social media release here — hey — put down those pitchforks, angry bloggers!). I have to say it was a fascinating piece of research with all kinds of implications about how politicians, businesses and NGOs might change the way they behave and communicate in order to inspire In the three weeks since the year began, I’ve been hearing about a whole host of new, hyperlocal online community services launching: Outside In: aggregates local news and provides forums, etc. Parkmatch: social networking for parking spaces (yes, really). Front Porch Forum: email your neighbours. Placeblogger: aggregates local blogs. Peuplade: Parisian neighbourhood network; Mine isn’t. It seems slower by the week. And while getting a new PC is always nice, the last two or three haven’t really provided the sort of speed jumps that have historically justified getting new kit. Getting a new PC (or Mac; I use both) wasn’t a transformational experience of computing — I couldn’t suddenly run the mind-bending applications Apologies for off-topic news, but there’s storm that has been brewing this week about the popular TV show, Celebrity Big Brother, which has allowed racially-inspired bullying onto UK TV screens. Contestants Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O’Meara have spoken about Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty behind her back and to her face in a way One of the less controversial ‘good things’ about Web 2.0 is the tag cloud. There’s one on the top-right of this page. In years gone by, that would have been a list of the categories covered on this site. So why is the cloud better than a list? Two things occur to me: (a) The compactness means it |             | |||
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