Today might be a momentous one in the unfolding drama that embraces News Corporation, phone hacking by journalists, police bribery, corruption and who knows what else as Rupert Murdoch and son James face a Parliamentary select committee investigating events that make up this scandal. Expectations look to be very high indeed that the Murdochs and [...]
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A new development in the ‘pay per click’ links licensing conflict in the UK is about to move things up a level, one designed to raise awareness among members of Parliament and which might influence the future of a system that has won little support in the public relations industry. To concisely re-cap: from early [...]
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Published on June 19, 2011 · 9:27 am UK
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in Business, Communication, Events, Law, Mainstream Media, Online Media, Public Relations, Social Media, Society, Web
I was looking again at some of the video recordings of last week’s debate at the British Library in London that I went to, organized by B2B SaaS company Meltwater, and which addressed the topic of “The Future of Content.” The debate and subsequent Q&A session lasted two hours – you can watch the complete-event [...]
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A Malaysian social activist will apologise 100 times on Twitter in an unusual settlement with a magazine publisher in a defamation case, reports The Guardian. [...] Fahmi Fadzil, an opposition politician’s aide and respected commentator on social issues, claimed on Twitter in January that his pregnant friend had been poorly treated by her employers at [...]
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Published on May 22, 2011 · 8:36 am UK
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in Communication, Law, Mainstream Media, Politics, Social Media, Society, Technology, Trends, Twitter, Web
A story that has been headline news in the UK’s mainstream media every day for the past week is that concerning a Premier League footballer who’s suing Twitter in a legal challenge. [Events have moved significantly since this post was published - updated information at the end of the post.] The court proceedings, launched in [...]
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Yesterday, I read a report in the American magazine The Atlantic which asked the question Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login? It’s the story of a man in the US state of Maryland who applied for a job at the state’s Department of Corrections (prison service) and who was obliged to [...]
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If you use Twitter, what you post to the micro-blogging service is public. Unless you post a DM (a private message only visible to the person you’re sending it to) or your Twitter account is a private one (none of the tweets are generally visible unless others follow you only with your permission), what you [...]
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I’ve been watching with interest, and some dismay, as a real kerfuffle has broken out in the WordPress community over the past few days surrounding the matter of copyright. At issue is interpretation of the GNU Public License (GPL), the "copyleft" license under whose terms WordPress software is released, how developers of premium themes offer [...]
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A significant event happened yesterday that embraces freedom of speech, blogging and notions of responsibility for one’s actions. It concerns a blog post written by Rod Liddle (a journalist), published on a blog run by The Spectator (a weekly political magazine owned by the Telegraph Media Group), and ruled by the Press Complaints Commission (the [...]
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“Breathtakingly stupid” are the words used by Struan Robertson, editor of Out-Law.com, in a post describing a new law that demands consent to cookies that will be in force across the European Union within 18 months. Cookies are small text files many websites automatically store on your computer that do things like remember your preferences [...]
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