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Category: Mainstream Media

More experiments with QR codes

6 March 2011

There’s a lot of experimenting going on these days with QR codes, those square images we see with increasing frequency on everyday items like utility bills, business cards, even building permits, and which you scan with your mobile device’s camera…

QR code
Al-Jazeera’s coverage of Egypt protests may hasten revolution in world news

7 February 2011

Al-Jazeera English is enjoying new-found global popularity in the wake of the chaos in Egypt

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A moment in history from Egypt

6 February 2011

The role social media has played in the unrest in Egypt that has occupied our TV screens for weeks is a subject of many opinions. What’s pretty clear if you pay attention to Facebook and Twitter is that communication channels…

#Egypt
You can try and stop it but the Jinn is out

28 January 2011

With the TV news full of images and sounds of serious civil unrest in Egypt, it’s fascinating to see how social media tools and channels – especially Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook – have been enabling Egyptian…
Product placement comes to UK TV and radio

23 December 2010

Broadcast industry regulator Ofcom confirmed this week that product placement â€“ paid-for references for products and services – will be allowed in UK TV programmes for the first time from next February. [â€¦] Ofcom has today [December 20] published the…

Category: Mainstream Media

More experiments with QR codes

Al-Jazeera’s coverage of Egypt protests may hasten revolution in world news

A moment in history from Egypt

You can try and stop it but the Jinn is out

Product placement comes to UK TV and radio