Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr. I’m talking about plagiarism: Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s work as one’s own, whether deliberate or accidental. Accidental plagiarism is usually the…
The announcement yesterday by the BBC on their plans to re-invent themselves for the ‘age of participatory media’ makes everything that any mainstream media organization has done to date with blogs, podcasting and other social media just look like tinkering. Trying to concisely summarize the detail of everything they’ve announced in…
SkypeJournal guest blogger Jean Mercier has an interesting story about the continuing growth of Skype. Stats on numbers of downloads of the app you install on your computer to actually use the service – now approaching 300 million according to a graph in Jean’s post – plus numbers and commentary…
Three separate but possibly related things about language and culture. BL Ochman writes about an English-language dilemma: In WebProWorld’s Google forum today, (registration required) the publisher of an Irish travel site wonders whether Google penalizes for spellings in Oxford English as opposed to American English. Respondents point out that if…
How much do you sleep at night? Seven or eight hours? More, or less? If less, could be you’re in sleep debt. If more, you could be risking your life. The Financial Times has a story which quotes from a report by Nytol, GlaxoSmithKline’s sleeping tablet brand: Sleep debt is…
It’s a great place, the blogosphere. Anyone with an opinion about anything can articulate it. And anyone does precisely that, including me. Thinking about the Windows Vista code rewrite discussion soap opera during these past few days, I’ve been reflecting on the passionate opinions expressed left, right and center in…
We talk about transparency a great deal, especially in relation to blogging, as in being open about who you are and what you do. The flip side is too much transparency, illustrated by a thoughtful article in Business Week on the real risks about being too open about yourself where…
New requirements came into force this week for some non-Dutch people who wish to live in The Netherlands. The big news is a new immigration test where would-be immigrants have to take a compulsory exam on what they know about The Netherlands before they get a permit to come here:…
