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Thailand coup for Flickr journalist

Posted by Simon Booth on September 23rd, 2006

Tags:bangkok, coup, dancaspersz, flickr, journalism, news, socialmedia, thailand, thailandcoup, un, unitednations, yahooYahoo! News - In the wake of the coup
“The mood on the streets of Bangkok in the first hours of the military coup.”
Dan Caspersz works in Thailand as a journalist for the United Nations, and he’s pulled together a first-hand “citizen’s report” from Thailand’s […]

SecondLife Natives Are Restless at ExperienceCurve

Posted by Simon Booth on September 3rd, 2006

Tags:american apparel, digital civil rights, secondlife, virtual worldSecondLife Natives Are Restless at ExperienceCurve
Golden Rule of Social Media number one could be: Even if you create a community, the users own it.
Direct action has come into play in virtual world SecondLife, where users are demanding their digital civil rights by staging “military operations” that have resulted […]

FlickrMail feature request

Posted by Simon Booth on September 23rd, 2005

Tags:flickr, greasemonkeyWould be great if there was a way to easily include links to your photos when you send an email through FlickrMail. Maybe with Greasemonkey?

Milk is Milk blog part of corporate campaign to undermine organic producers

Posted by Simon Booth on February 14th, 2005

Tags:astroturfing, blogs, disinformation, gm, organicA web campaign and blog part-funded by the biotech corporation Monsanto is seeking to undermine attempts by organic dairy producers to inform American consumers about Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH). BGH is a genetically engineered hormone designed to increase the amount of milk cows produce and is banned in most of the […]

Counter Strike meets Banksy

Posted by Simon Booth on January 26th, 2005

Tags:banksy, games, streetart, ugm, virtualworldNice to see someone applying a bit of (non 14-year-old) humour to Counter Strike.
One of the features of the game is the ability to spray graffiti on the walls, so someone has made some “sprays” out of Banksy art and called it counter street art.
I reckon I might download them and […]

Trust on BBC messageboards

Posted by Simon Booth on January 31st, 2004

Tags:bbc, forums, trustThe recent Hutton report and subsequent furore have highlighted the issue of the BBC and trust. Trust is important for online communities too. So, I set off to thinking about how trust could be built into the new BBC messageboards system.
Not all of the ideas are fully formed, nor are they necessarily all […]

How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

Posted by Simon Booth on November 28th, 2003

Tags:forums, humourSomething to bear in mind for my current job: How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?
Via Many-to-Many, via Martin Dugage.

A kind review of WW2 People’s War

Posted by Simon Booth on August 29th, 2003

Tags:peoples warThe People’s War | csmonitor.com
If your family has a wartime story to tell, go to WW2 People’s War.

Flash Mob London

Posted by Simon Booth on August 5th, 2003

Tags:flash mob, londonFlash Mob London
I’ll be going. Will you?

Praise from Haddock

Posted by Simon Booth on July 29th, 2003

Tags:peoples warHaddock Directory: Link 18,677
Praise from your peers is always the nicest