Facebook and Twitter are transforming politics around the world, but to what effect? They helped dissidents drive dictators from power in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. No doubt they will continue to help subvert despotic regimes. Will they also foster democracy in newly liberated nations? Will they increase the leverage of activists pressing democratic governments to [...]
Nate Silver had a great piece in the Times recently looking at how clashes with police seem to have driven mainstream media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests (a classic example of the principle of “if it bleeds, it leads”). The centerpiece of his article is this chart, showing the pattern of relevant media hits. Nate’s article [...]
Today I’m excited to welcome some of the world’s foremost experts and advocates to Seattle for the foundation’s second Malaria Forum. As we head into this exciting day, I can’t help but reflect on the tremendous progress we have made in building public support to end malaria since the last forum four years ago. We [...]
Software company SmartBear recently released the seventh installment of their quarterly Web Performance Index for Social Networks. It ranked which social media sites were the fastest and which were the most reliable in the third quarter of 2011. The findings are based on data collected by SmartBear’s AlertSite, which monitors the home pages of these five [...]
The new online environment our children live in requires a different style of parenting. The reality of the social web is that parents cannot completely control where and when their kids get access to, or post, certain sensitive information on topics like sex, drugs, violence, racism etc., so we require new tools that parents before [...]
He was no stranger to drama in The Social Network, but LA clubgoers got a close look at just how tough a partnership with Mark Zuckerberg can be. The Facebook boss reportedly got into an alcohol-fuelled shouting match with Napster co-founder Sean Parker over the site’s new ties with Spotify. The New York Post reported [...]
Thousands of women have been handed a massive financial bonus after a reprieve from the Government over the raising the state pension age. The age at which women start receiving their pension had been due to rise to 66 in April 2020, but that rise will now take place six months later after an announcement [...]
LCD sets from 2007 and 2008 affected 40in sets in danger of malfunction 138,000 ‘at risk’ units have been sold in UK and Ireland 630,000 affected units have been sold in Europe Sony is to recall 1.6million of its Bravia brand LCD TVs worldwide after several serious malfunctions involving parts ‘melting’. The 11 incidents took [...]
A nurse was facing jail today after killing her baby by force-feeding her, in the first case of its kind in Britain. Gloria Dwomoh poured liquidised food into her daughter Diamond’s mouth while weaning her, despite being warned in the past about the feeding methods. A catalogue of social worker errors allowed Dwomoh to overfeed [...]
If Don Draper, the Madison Avenue powerhouse of “Mad Men” fame, were around today to tap the power of social media, he might unleash a campaign that looked something like Shopularity. Draper told stories about products. Shopularity, the brainchild of programmer Jordan Holberg, gives people a way to tell their own stories about products. Shopularity describes [...]
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