Night and Day The royal wedding and the execution of Osama Bin Laden are a good reminder of how far the news agenda can lurch in the space of a couple of days. On Friday and during the weekend, the run was all for images of expensive dresses, dashing Rolls Royces, cheering crowds and flapping …
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The Internet: five years ago
2005: social media? About five years after its launch, last Sunday evening, You Tube announced that they are now receiving two billion hits per day. On their official blog they wrote: Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with …
Flickr and the Creative Commons
Photo by the White House Official Photostream Digital Communism and the Creative Commons Flickr has long been one of my favourite sites on the Internet. Easy to navigate, full of fantastic images, and with a system (the Creative Commons) that allows everyone to properly acknowledge the authors of work. Any business, blogger or journalist can …