Category: Online Media

  • Mining the MJ community

    This is going to be huge. The official Michael Jackson website invites its visitors to share their MJ memories in classic blog comment form. As of writing there are 354 044 memories “from Michael Jackson fans worldwide”, and growing naturally.…

  • What it takes to be a citizen journalist

    Google just launched the YouTube Reporters Center. Ever captured a natural disaster or a crime on your cell-phone camera? Filmed a political rally or protest, and then interviewed the participants afterward? Produced a story about a local issue in your…

  • RIP Michael Jackson, you thrilled us

    I was up late in my office last night when the first comments on Twitter about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson started appearing. It wasn’t long before those tweets became a torrent as more and more people heard the…

  • MPs expenses: How to save £91 a week

    Earlier this week, the government published the details of expenses claimed by Members of Parliament. Plenty has been talked about during the past few months in relation to MPs’ expenses, not the least of which has been the ongoing scoop…

  • Voices from Iran will be heard

    If you want to follow developments in Iran after the presidential election that took place on June 12, mainstream media reporting online and offline are the logical places to pay attention to. Yet these are not the only places –…