Politics In The Social Media Playground

We may never know the Impact social media had in shaping our new rather bewildering government. Maybe it reached a lethargic non-voting population and changed their minds. Perhaps it taught the party campaigners to engage with more mobile tools in order to rally their troops. Maybe all it did was introduce other channels of communication [...]

Weapon of mass distraction reports Tiger Woods, Xfactor shocker!

Once again I wake to the BBC News channel ‘Britain’s most watched news channel’ wondering why I bother. I can avoid buying the Daily Mail and it’s tittle tattle quite easily yet i find the BBC’s 24 hour news channel streamed into my home unavoidably disappointing. I am forced to pay to have the BBC [...]

Aljazeera on New Media

During the 140 characters conference in New York I got to connect with some really fascinating people. Moeed Ahmed is the Supervisor of Internet Media, New Media section with Aljazeera in Doha, Qatar. With the help of Matt (@Barnstormed), I managed to grab a few words with him at my hotel. This interview and others [...]

PM in the AM

Thomson Reuters is hosted a NewsMaker event on the present economic crisis and in addition to it’s regular text, streaming video and picture coverage, they opened up their doors and minds to social media. In addition to making live and edited video content available worldwide over the web, myself (@Documentally) and Mike Atherton (@sizemore) were [...]