Law enforcement in virtual worlds
Interesting Washington Post piece on law enforcement in virtual worlds like Second Life or the game World of Warcraft. Two years ago, Japanese authorities arrested a man for carrying out a series of virtual...
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Gillmor at Where2.0: Where are the journalists?
I just read Dan Gillmor‘s comment on the Where2.0 conference in San Jose, which was all about location, geotagging, mashups etc. Gillmor is wondering why few journalists are there. I don’t mean reporters who...
Video clip from Nejra's gig at Bara Vi
Last week Nejra’s first single Headstrong was released. Congratulations!! And now I finally got round to uploading a clip from the gig at Bara Vi. The track is called Our Lovely Friend Luck. Any...
Lord of the Rings on stage
One of the nice things K and I did in London was to watch the stage production of The Lord of the Rings at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. I was sceptical as to whether...
Fire on Oxford Street
K and I ended up close to a fire on Oxford Street yesterday. We had just had lunch at EAT. and were heading towards Oxford Cirkus when we saw thick smoke behind us, coming...
Damon Rasti: When you can influence content you are more okay with ads
Tjuvlyssnat.se is a Swedish version of the popular US blog ”Overheard in New York”. In a short period of time it has gained a great success, being the most read blog on Bloggportalen.se, and...
Reports from the SJF debate on user generated content
I haven’t had time to write about the SJF panel debate on citizen media the other day, so I was happy to see that Media Culpa and Andreas Aspegren have done the job for...
Brazilian student fined for online abuse on Orkut
This is a guest post by Gitta Wilén, Scriptwriter for interactive Media at Houdini web agency. A college student in Brazil has been condemned to pay 3 500 reails (about 1 700 US dollars)...
Geo-stories, the result of the Brighton multimedia project
In December I wrote about the multimedia project in Brighton which is a collaboration between the University of Brighton, Nokia, Ymogen and the BBC. Today the result was released as Geo-stories, a set of...
Robin Hamman on the pilot BBC project in Manchester
The BBC is a media company in the forefront when it comes to working with its users, letting them contribute in different ways. One of their projects that I’ve been following for a while...
EFIT 12 maj 2007
Den här EFIT-dagen blev lite mer varierad än vanligt. Jag är i Värmland och hälsar på Sofie, efter att ha föreläst på Karlstads universitet om medborgarmedia. 00:31 – Sofie och Nova gosar 07:58 –...
Presentation and debate
I have a busy week coming up. Thursday I’ll give a presentation at Karlstad University on citizen media and how we work with participatory journalism at aftonbladet.se. Also some important challenges for news sites...
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