Category: Blogs, RSS etc

The Observer reports on Faceparty – which Teenagers seem to be moving to, away from MySpace. Britain’s teenagers have a secret. The money spent by media companies buying up well-known internet chatrooms such as Friends Reunited and MySpace has missed the target. New figures show that the busiest community website is the unheralded Faceparty. Given…

Searchenginewatch  report on the lapse that lead to the Google blog disappearing for a brief period, when someone accidentally deleted it! Another blogger, on trying to read it, got a 404 page error, so tried to register the same name – and got it! He had it for a few hours – there’s a screen…

Even politicians are blogging. David Milibrand has become the UK’s first (official) blogging Minister. Wonder how it will develop….

Slashdot – with links to the BBC etc. – a couple of Chinese Bloggers pulled their sites offline, and, as they’d hoped, the BBC, among others, blamed it on the Chinese Government….

Go on My Sun, says News Corp Last July My Space was bought by News Corporation – the Murdoch controlled group that includes “The Sun” and “The Times”, in the UK, as well as a raft of titles in Australia & the Pacific (including PNG’s Post Courier) According to the Guardian, he’d originally thought about…

The Blooker prize (for a blog that’s been converted to a book), has published its shortlist – with the winner to be announced on April 3rd. The competition is sponsored by Lulu – and has prizes of upto $2000 for the winner. (Of course, it has to be in English…)…

The Metropolitan Police Force have issued blogging guidelines, that are leading to some Police Officers cease their blogging. The BBC don’t have a link to the guidelines, but they have quoted a few sections: expressing views and opinions that are damaging to the organisation or bring the organisation into disrepute…

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