Sunday, 15 February 2009 / Published in General

Privacy and Growing Up Digital

There is fundamental thing I hear over and over when it comes to people going online and using social networks – and that is the concern over privacy. I am not one to dismiss the concerns over identify theft, Internet scams that rob people of their money, or pirates, hackers and malicious individuals who break
Thursday, 12 February 2009 / Published in Social Media

Social media DOES spur accountability

Here comes a bit of a mea culpa (and an overdue one at that). Back in July of last year I wrote a blog post that fed off a couple of stories circling the Internet. One was about a man who claimed to have photographed a rare Tiger in China, which was proven to be
Thursday, 12 February 2009 / Published in Media, Social Media

Is TV driving social media’s success? Or is social media driving out TV?

A colleague of mine forwarded an article by Mike Bloxham from the MEDIA Post blog, entitled “At a TV Screen Near you: Facebook and Twitter”. In this article, Bloxham refers to social media as having a “benignly parasitical relationship with TV” and that this relationship was somehow benefiting social networking sites. This irks me a