London, UK
The Guardian Film Blog on "W" which had it's UK Premiere at the London Film Festival
Women & Hollywood Blog on Women at the Box Office
PR Media Blog on Sex Surveys
Euan Temple on The Social Media Classroom
Robert Scoble on Economic Optimism
and finally, Adam Tinworth on his recent visit to Web 2.0 in Berlin
London, UK
FreshNetworks on getting your new on-line community spot-on
Digital TV on Setanta's upcoming Premier League schedule
Becker Posner on Government equity in private companies.
Stuff TV and their take on the new Blackberry
Me on my other site about the recession - what recession?
Nancy at TigerTwoTiger on the power of Bloggers
and finally Ellee Seymour on the Saatchi "trim"
London, UK
The other evening I was MC at a networking event held at Kempton Park Racecourse. The evening was organised by Malcolm Tullett and Warren Cass of Business Scene. Over 100 people turned up from a variety of businesses including Andy Lopata of Word of Mouse
Earlier this week , Andy had a full page article in the Sun newspaper on business networking. Well done Andy. Both he and I would agree that networking is about unconditional giving and not about trying to get business too quickly. Also, I bumped into a brilliant lady, divorce coach Kirsten Gronning
One of the speakers was David Sumner-Smith of The Telegraph Business Club. David gave a really interesting talk about how technology can assist SME's. He focused, in particular, on two growing areas - the internet (as a way of marketing your business) and Web-based television. In-Situ Productions are one such production company offering these services and filming the event were i-catching movies
There were others from the media world, including Chantal Cooke of Passion Radio and Mel Tyler of TigerTwo who are social media consultants.
So the social network, Facebook has forced a major international banking institution to climb down over student loans. Graham Jones has written a wonderful piece about this here. READ IT
I think there are 2 things:
1. The crass stupidity of HSBC. Don't they realise they could have made customers for life of these students? Oh no, short-term thinking and petty-minded arrogance won the day.
2. I getting to love the power of Facebook and other social media sites. How many of you are with me?
Jeremy Jacobs - Corporate Presenter
It's not only in the UK that censorship of the internet/blogosphere is being discussed. New rules in France, ostensibly to stop "happy slapping videos " by certain "citizen journalists", appear to go a lot further according to the journalists organisation, Reporters without Borders. Here's the article from "MacWorld" which was highlighted at Fausta, and No Pasaran
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday on the night of March 3, 1991. The officers’ acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles.
If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could end up in prison as a result of the new law, said Pascal Cohet, a spokesman for French online civil liberties group Odebi. And anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (US$98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act.
Senators and members of the National Assembly had asked the council to rule on the constitutionality of six articles of the Law relating to the prevention of delinquency. The articles dealt with information sharing by social workers, and reduced sentences for minors. The council recommended one minor change, to reconcile conflicting amendments voted in parliament. The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on a wide range of public order offenses. During parliamentary debate of the law, government representatives said the offense of filming or distributing films of acts of violence targets the practice of “happy slapping,” in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker’s friends.
The broad drafting of the law so as to criminalize the activities of citizen journalists unrelated to the perpetrators of violent acts is no accident, but rather a deliberate decision by the authorities, said Cohet. He is concerned that the law, and others still being debated, will lead to the creation of a parallel judicial system controlling the publication of information on the Internet.
The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules. The journalists’ organization Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for a free press, has warned that such a system could lead to excessive self censorship as organizations worried about losing their certification suppress certain stories.
Can you imagine a certification for this site or Iain Dale or Paul Linford? No doubt Broon will be rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of regulating (and no doubt taxing) UK-based Bloggers
really seems to know what she's talking about. One of the most interesting sites I've come across.
Blogging to Fame! IMHO, is nicely put together and a good read.
