Tweehive : ‘Fashioned by a group of creative nature enthusiasts,  Tweehive  is a mass role play by human beings of a bee colony on Twitter, which will be played on three specific days in July, August and September with a view to raise bee awareness, wonderment, interest, actions and to generate traffic to bee related sites and resources.’ Shownar : A TV and radio hub for BBC shows.  Here we go: 1.

Thursday’s Question Time on the BBC featured the leader of the British National Party, saw a record number of viewers and reportedly 12.5 Of the two shows, the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing offers a richer experience. Their Strictly Social site allows you to watch the show via BBC iPlayer and chat in real time with viewers alongside the screen. Image by dhammza via Flickr Watching TV is almost always a social experience. 

On my return I turned to my three favourite sources for getting up to speed quickly on what’s been happening: BBC News, Twitter and Google. Both the aftermath of the Iran election and the death of Michael Jackson have highlighted the role that users can play in generating  news content. Tags: Matt Rhodes Social Media BBC News Crimean War freshminds FreshNetworks Google Iran Los Angeles Michael Jackson On the Web online communities Image by tibchris via Flickr I’ve spent the last ten days with no Internet and very little access to English-language news

This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009. James Richards ( BBC Learning Development ) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington ( Ished ); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith . There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and 50 creative (and) technology types from around the country. This report is split into the following: Event purpose

Before joining the Guardian, he worked at the BBC for eight years. He joined the BBC in 1998, as their first online journalist based outside of the UK. From their flagship Washington bureau, he covered the US for the BBC’s award winning news website , while also providing politics and technology coverage for BBC radio and television. About Us | RSS | Advertise | Contact Us Home > Weblog Columns > Strange Attractor Weblog columns [select a blog] [Corante Blog] BETWEEN LAWYERS: technology + culture + law BRAIN WAVES: neurons, bits & genes COPYFIGHT: the politics

Last week, the BBC Trust gingerly announced provisional approval of the BBC’s Project Canvas . One organisation we wont see supporting the project is BSkyB who claim the proposal is anti-competitive and not within the remit of the BBC. This is how I believe the BBC sees convergence, and their role within it. The aim of Project Canvas is to define a set of standards for set-top boxes that will allow integration of web and TV. Although, it isn’t clear exactly what the standards will consist of and what Project Canvas’ vision of

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(picture from BBC article) The BBC writes about virtual weddings in Zimbabwe . "Zimbabwe's Playwright and cultural analyst Stephen Chifunyise says: "It does satisfy minimum requirements, because in the actual process of paying lobola, the couple does not play a major role," he says, explaining that everybody appreciates the reason they are out of the country. Zimbabwe's traditional weddings, usually joyous occasions with singing, dancing and plenty of food, are now increasingly being held in the absence of those whose presence might be considered vital - the bride and groom. " Couples living abroad find it hard to be there for the traditional wedding ceremony, so instead send money home for the ceremony to take place without them.

Then, in July 2005, News Corporation purchased MySpace for $580 million (BBC, 2005), attracting massive media attention. Analyzing the roles people played in the growth of Flickr and Yahoo! Scholarship concerning LiveJournals network has included a Friendship classification scheme (Hsu, Lancaster, Paradesi, & Weniger, 2007), an analysis of the role of language in the topology of Friendship (Herring et al., JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d. m., &

These include papers like The New York Times, which see a much larger readership of their online platform, supported by a slowly improving level of targeted advertising to its new, larger audiences, and international sources like the BBC or Al Jazeera, some of which at least depend on state funding. Less prominent than the large collaboration platforms like Daily Kos, individuals play an important role in this new information ecosystem. The newspaper example suggests that even if we could completely shut down peer-to-peer networks, we should still expect the recording industry to decline over time as consumers gravitate toward more efficient and convenient sources of music.