links for 2009-11-04
5 November 2009
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Twitter’s new Lists feature is all the rage right now. There are probably already millions of lists, and that number is growing by the minute (or second). So what are people using all these lists for? Are people creating lists just for the sake of creating lists? Savvy individuals are looking for ways to use lists to further their personal/professional agendas, and while we are all still learning how to harness the power of this new feature, here are a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing.
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The Mail Online has a serious problem with its moderation policy and racist comments.
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So are journalists among the British workers losing businesses £1.38bn a year in wasted time through using Twitter and Facebook at work?
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Carphone Warehouse is arguing that cutting internet pirates off from cyber space infringes on their basic freedoms
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We live in changed and changing times shaped by the emerging growth of the internet and digital communications.
In the new digital universe brand presence has been democratised. Those brands which embrace new opportunities in the correct manner will emerge victorious, while those heritage brands that remain tied to old practices will fall by the way side.
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With media companies thinning out their newsrooms, struggling to stem revenue losses and worrying about the plausibility of subsisting on dwindling ad revenue online, there's been a lot of talk over the past few months about charging for content.
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Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. They are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny bytes of information
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Even if there wasn't a recession this year, 2009 was always going to be a crunch year for B2B and consumer magazine publishers, given the pull of online media and social networking on their readers.
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Wherever I lay my laptop, that's my home, says Bill Thompson
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An Asian man who was accused of calling Nick Griffin a “white b*****d” as he drove past him has been cleared of racially threatening behaviour.
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UK's largest news aggregator publishes open letter denying it is undermining publishers' businesses
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It seems SimplyZesty have found a way to automate adding people to lists, which you'd need – otherwise some phenomenal manhours would be involved in filing all of Twitter's millions of users.
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Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight features a debate on the division between popular protest and mob rule.
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Popular Facebook game accused of encouraging young people to spend real money on virtual cash
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South Yorkshire Police has launched a campaign on Facebook to tackle antisocial behaviour over the bonfire night period in the Barnsley area.
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Some school children in Denmark are going to be allowed to use the internet during their final exams as part of trial scheme.
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Brazen gift demanders will be able to post their Christmas wish lists not just to Santa c/o the North Pole but to their friends and family on social networks as part of a new Christmas shopping campaign.
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Writing on the Online Journalism Review, Eric Ulken profiles TwitterTim.es, a new service that uses Twitter feeds to created personalised ‘newspapers’.
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The redesign will feature Twitter and Facebook integration.
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Zappos has built up a reputation for excellent customer service, and owes much of its success to this. The fact that 75% of its business comes from repeat customers provides convincing evidence of its importance.
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A social media agency is asking Twitter users to help it create an area-by-area list of English, Irish and US twitterers
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