Blogger urges Swedish police to go 2.0
Swedish blogger Johnny at Stationsvakt has an idea for how the Swedish polce could use web2.0 to catch more criminals. Johnny brings up the example...
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"Gatekeeping is over" – new wiki enables anonymous leaks
A new wiki is being set up by Chinese dissidents in collaboration with mathematicians and startup company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and...
Tyda.se – a Swedish/English lexicon as a wiki
Tyda.se is a collaborative lexicon offering translations from Swedish to English and the other way around. The site is a citizen media effort, urging its...
Mashup brings CNN news alerts to Twitter
Rumors had it that CNN was experimenting with sending news alerts through Twitter. I thought that pretty cool, but of course it wasn’t the newschannel...
Placeblogger – a new hub for hyperlocal blogging in the States
A new site covering local and hyperlocal blogs has launched. Placeblogger.com is presented by Dan Gillmor’s Center for Citizens Media, Jay Rosen‘s PressThink and Lisa...
Video clip ethics and the death of Saddam Hussein
Beta Alfa poses some important questions about video clip sites and the death video of Saddam Hussein. My translation. Is it okay to publish images...
Shared revenues at Sovrat.se
Swedish Digg clone Sovrat.se today introduces revenue sharing, by letting users show their own Google Adsense ads next to their posts. I asked Martin Lindkvist...
Bubblare.se's top eight viral videos for 2006
In a press release dated dec. 27, Oskar Kalmaru, CEO of Swedish video clip site Bubblare.se, lists the most viral videos for 2006. His observations...
Social networking site for creative people
“It’s not just your space”, states social networking site Humble Voice, focusing on creative people within the fields of music, video, photography, art and words....
New book on social media – and you can help
Shel Israel is writing a new book on social media and how it’s moving power from institutions to people: “Global Neighbourhoods”. And he wants your...
Top social networks of 2006
Mashable has listed the top 12 – or 26 if you include the people’s choice which of course you should – social networks of 2006...
NewsTrust lets you rate news stories on their trustworthiness
Speaking of trust, NewsTrust sounds like an interesting initiative. I found the link at ifocos, where Andrew Nachison writes: NewsTrust is tying to develop a...
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