Yesterday’s gossip about the alleged ‘closure’ of Fabric raises plenty of the big digital media issues of our time.
@buzzin_fly DJ Ben Watt posted what turned out to be the first online news of redundancies at the vitally important London venue. Within an hour there was plenty of RT action of his original post and the [...]
All this week we’re out in Mayrhofen, Austria, producing a real-time stream of news content for the official Snowbombing festival iPhone app by Eristoff – Vodka from the Land of the Wolf.
If you’ve got an iPhone or iPod Touch, download it for free while the event is taking place and let us know what you [...]
The media landscape has changed dramatically since we last had a general election here in the UK. And the rate of change frustrates, baffles and annoys a large part of the electorate. However there’s no escaping the fact that this election is going to be all about digital media.
Twitter is far more established and important [...]
I can’t help feeling disappointed observing the glee many people are taking in the ‘battle’ to get Rage Against the Machine to Christmas No.1 over the usual syrupy X-Factor ballad. Yet again, a virtual-pitchfork wielding mob springs up on Facebook/Twitter, overexcitedly spitting bile about ‘sticking it to Simon Cowell’ and clearly relishing being members of [...]
Forget the latest social media trends, communications fads and all those lofty opinions on the future of Twitter. The one thing that has emerged as a modern essential (one I believe we will soon consider on a par with having a phone number, or a listed postal or email address), is the status update.
It [...]
So the internet is currently grinding to a halt with reaction to Michael Jackson’s untimely death. And naturally it’s a field day for consipracy theorists and rumour mongers already. (Who placed a bet the O2 gigs wouldn’t happen?)
But, with a couple of other celeb deaths today, the intriguing ‘news’ out there at the moment is [...]
News of a potential global flu pandemic is content gold for news outlets. Did anyone see the Sky News feature running yesterday complete with gratuitous scary music?! With the continuing assault on ad revenues and competition for audiences, it’s fair to say that this sort of story is going to be worked for all it’s [...]
Seeing as Miami’s Winter Music Conference is now in full swing, we’ve been monitoring social media activity around the annual orgy of electronica. (Ok, so it’s a poor second to actually being out there. Poolside. In the sunshine. But it’s as close as we’re getting this time).
While there’s unquestionably more content than ever in terms [...]
One look at the papers tells you that our favourite micro-blogging service has well and truly been picked up as the ‘trend du jour’ by the UK press.
From freesheets to broad ones, vast columns are currently stuffed full of Twitter related chatter. Be it lazy reporting on yesterday’s celebrity tweets, or repeated discussions of [...]
Brits have shown the world just how preoccupied with the weather we really are via the medium of Twitter. The dumping of a few inches of snow and the subsequent, inevitable shut down of Our Roman/Victorian era transportation network lead a lot of people to be stuck at home Twittering about the ‘arctic’ conditions.
The #uksnow [...]
