Audience & Social
#twittamentary - A storify of the show
The Twittamentary shown at the Innovation Warehouse as part of Social Media Week – London. These are the tweets from @interhacktives and others around it.
Andrew Stuart
News
Today's Audioboo!
Download 672498-interhacktives-boo-3-interhacktives.mp3?keyed=true& Today's Audioboo giving us a roundup on Interhacktives is here. Recorded by Andrew Stuart, it's recorded at Spa Fields. Enjoy it! Interhacktives boo 3! @interhacktives (mp3) Enjoy, comment and post a reply audioboo. Andrew.
Events
Instagram – Loving it up for the day
If you follow me, @andrewstuart, on Twitter you may well know I am a big user of Instagram. I even use it to do a 365 project. I find it a fun, experimental and quirky way of sharing photos. You can take a photo and it'll look fairly
Audience & Social
Do you want to #drawahorse? It's all explained here:
The #drawahorse hashtag is something that took off very recently, and it all started here at City University, London. We at Interhacktives would be missing a trick if we didn't explain how it all started, so we got in touch with the person behind it all, a Mr
Audience & Social
Breaking the news on Twitter
Breaking news on Twitter is not something that's new, but it is now being seemingly regulated by the powers-that-be at Sky News and the BBC News operations. Sky News had an email leaked on Tuesday evening concerning Twitter, in which it stated, according to The Guardian,
Audience & Social
Sky News Twitter Ban - Save Fieldproducer... or not?
I'm told #SkyNews have stopped their journos retweeting information/tweets from journalists or people not working for Sky. Must be wrong?? — Kevin Bakhurst(@kevinbakhurst) February 7, 2012 It turns out that is strictly speaking the case. The Guardian story lays out the basics of the new policy: An
Interviews
Video: Interview with Judith Townend
From her website, meejalaw.com I helped set up the successful ‘Hacks and Hacker Hack Day’ UK & Ireland tour for the data mining site Scraperwiki, a winner of the Knight News Challenge 2011. I have written for BBC College of Journalism, Global Voices Online, Inforrm, the Guardian, the Media
News
Censor British tweets – What could happen under new Twitter policy
British Twitter users tweets could be censored is the news not many people were hoping to hear. That’s what Twitter’s head of global public policy, Colin Crowell told Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions that the new policy by the social media company to allow censoring Quoted in
Audience & Social
Why Twitter can be amazing for local news - but it isn't everything.
This post comes out of a tweet by David Higgerson, the head of multimedia for the Trinity Mirror regionals. Is a journalist saying 'I don't need to do Twitter' the same as a reporter saying 'The telephone? No, I'll stick with the telegram,
Audience & Social
It all started on social media: A Congressman resigns
June was the month that saw the advent of a brand new form of a social media, a pretty large IPO of an internet streaming company, and the resignation of a United States Congressman. It may have started late in the previous month, but it can be argued that the
Audience & Social
Shut down social media during future riots? Not the best idea.
In story on the Guardian website today, 70% of people (in a survey of 973 adults) suggested they would be in favour of shutting down the social networks Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger during civil unrest. It comes off the back of the prosecutions for inciting riots (even though they
Events
Live coverage of the police
Tweets from the hashtag #spplive.