Mashuqur Rahman has created a new WordPress plugin, Twitter Liveblog, designed to let you create and update Live blog posts using Twitter. Once you’ve installed and configured Twitter LiveBlog with your Twitter account info, it will let you: Start a liveblogging post using a Twitter update. Add to the liveblogging post using Twitter updates. Each […]

New research from Gartner helps explain why newspapers aren’t just failing in print, but online, too: Newspapers publishers are failing to take advantage of social media and the loyalty of their online readers. Gartner found that newspapers are not helping their readers to use social media to act as influencers. The problem starts with a […]

Forget worrying about how much video the kids are watching these days on the TV and the Internet.

New research shows that Baby Boomers are the biggest couch potatoes/mouse potatoes of all.

The Guardian reports that UK primary schools may soon dump studying things like the Second World War and the Victorians in favor of Twitter, Wikipedia and podcasts: The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of specifications about the scientific, geographical and historical knowledge pupils […]

The President has introduced a new tool on WhiteHouse.gov, Open for Questions, which lets you submit  questions on the economy and vote on those submitted by others: “Open for Questions” is a new experiment for WhiteHouse.gov, the President’s latest effort to open up the White House and give Americans from around the country a direct […]

If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to […]

eMarketer reports that advertisers are switching to social media. “Companies are learning how to leverage social media and tap into the rising tide of consumers participating in social network sites, blogs, wikis and Twitter,” they note. The claim is supported by research from the Aberdeen Group, who found that nearly 2/3rds of the companies they […]

Ad Age has an interesting article today that looks at how big media companies are putting more and more pressure on Google to give them priority treatment -  above bloggers, microbloggers, podcasters and other indie media creators – in search results: Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the […]

Mobilecasting update: Audioboo is a free iPhone application (App Store link) for recording and sharing audio with the world. A built-in recorder lets you create audio blogs of up to 3 minutes in length and post them to your own account on the web. You can add titles, text, geolocation info and a photo to […]

Print Media Deathwatch: Looks like Hearst is coming to grips with the idea that the traditional local newspaper is dead. They’ve laid off hundreds and shut down the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pinning their hopes for the news organization on a “new type of digital business,” creating a business focusing on community news and local business advertising. […]