This is the first of two posts aimed at twitter beginners who are wondering how they might make the most of the service. Next time I will consider ‘what to tweet’, but for now the focus is on ‘who to follow’. Here are a few tips which new users might find helpful:
1. Ask yourself this question: What do I want to get from my twitter experience? Do you want to use it for purposes of following all the latest news and developments in your professional area? Or maybe to …
Ex-BBC journalist and organised crime expert Misha Glenny has followed up his fascinating McMafia with another exploration of modern international crime networks – this time focusing specifically on the little-understood and discussed, but increasingly important, issue of cybercrime. It is that rare thing: an engaging and clear book about a messy and complicated subject, which is ‘unputdownable’ as they like to say in the publishers’ ads. Moreover, it is a subject relevant to every single global web and computer user and one about which we are currently very under-informed.
For …
This week has seen the release of corporate financial reports for Q1 of 2012 and, unsurprisingly, there has been extensive coverage of the tech companies’ results on various blogs and websites. I’ve been reading through most of them this morning and have decided to do an ultra short summary of some of the most interesting figures and details for those who don’t fancy reading the results in full. So, without further ado, here is a quick summary of Q1 2012 for the tech industry.
(N.B. Q1 2012, perhaps confusingly, refers …
People with dodgy views – idiots, fools and worse still, racists and bullies, used to have a much better chance of getting through the day without being discovered before social media came along. Now, thanks to the ease with which public figures can communicate with millions (via twitter) or the fact that almost everyone has a video camera in their pocket on their mobile phone – and a platform, called Youtube, to share footage with millions – things are a little more complicated.
The frequency with which scandal erupts around …
Who exactly is supporting SOPA in the US? Yes, there’s the film industry and all its affiliated organisations. There’s also the record labels and plenty of artists’ unions, as well as rights holders for major sporting events. But if you take a look at the official ‘List of Supporters’ document for the bill from the US House of Representatives, you’ll notice that there’s also a few other organizations on there which don’t fall into any of the aforementioned categories. At least that’s what I found when I decided to follow up …
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