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Rick Waghorn: Why the ‘Godfather of Hyperlocal’ is keeping it simple
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Rick Waghorn is at the forefront of the hyperlocal movement in the UK. Rob Williams asks him about the future of news, the move from ‘not for profit’ to ‘not for loss’ and whether older hacks can keep up with the new generation.
Wiki giants on a collision course over shared name
Monday, 30 August 2010
In 1995, an American software developer was told by an attendant at Honolulu airport to take the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" that connects the airports two terminals. The word is Hawaiian for "fast". On returning to the US mainland, Ward Cunningham named his website "WikiWikiWeb". It allowed computer programmers to share and edit each other's code, the first website of its type.
The internet comes of age: Meet the tweeny bloggers
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Children as young as three are firing up their laptops and connecting, says Susie Mesure
New role created over independent.co.uk
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Zach Leonard has been appointed to the new post of Managing Director Digital, London Evening Standard and the Independent, starting on 1 September.
Jack Riley: Introducing The Independent newspaper(.li)
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
The Independent; now available on paper.li, the trendy web service which builds a digital newspaper out of a Twitter account or, in this case, list. Have a look at ours here, and, since it's republish ...
Suits take centre stage: How a new Edinburgh festival aims to get the backroom mixing with the talent
Thursday, 19 August 2010
They may not be the sexiest people in media, it's true. The marketers, the planners, the directors of communications, the analysts, the venture capitalists, the brand specialists and the digital strategists tend to sit in the shadows, while the content creators – the presenters, actors, writers and directors – flutter in the limelight of public recognition.
Larry Ryan: Top of the posts: Littlejohn, Rooney and Hari
Thursday, 19 August 2010
"Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Our top blog posts of the last week." 1. Richard Littlejohn thinks the suicides in Chinese factories are really, really funny by Johann Hari 2. Capello’s new problem: Ho ...
Alice-Azania Jarvis: Zebra chasing, presidential holidays and bullfighting
Thursday, 19 August 2010
NATURE Asylum.co.uk Motorists in California are pinching themselves after seeing a group of police officers chasing two zebras around downtown Sacramento. Due to be transported by truck to their home ...
People magazine iPad app delayed by paparazzi
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
The publishing world's headlong rush to Apple's iPad has hit a big hitch. More than a dozen of the photo agencies that supply celebrity snapshots from the paparazzi are banding together to withhold their prized product unless it can get additional compensation from People magazine, resulting in the postponement of its iPad app.
WikiLeaks 'will not be threatened' by Pentagon
Saturday, 14 August 2010
WikiLeaks will soon publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents, despite warnings from the US government, the organization's founder said Saturday.
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