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  • Can you really control who says what about the 2012 Olympics?

    Reuters reports that 70,000 unpaid volunteers recruited for the London Olympics this summer have been warned not to give away breaking news about athletes or disclose the location of politicians and celebrities through online comments or pictures posted on social…

  • Trust in Twitter takes a knock

    If Twitter says a Twitter account is authentic, you trust it, don’t you? That little tick on a blue background you often see alongside accounts of prominent politicians, celebs and others is your symbol of confidence that the account belongs…

  • Ebooks: the next online battleground

    Isn’t this just like the music industry was a decade ago?: New medium captures imaginations of content creators and consumers. For publishers, literally zero distribution costs. Publishers succumb to temptation to charge an arm and a leg for the product,…

  • A golden milestone to mark a decade

    The Golden Age of tech blogging is over, says Jeremiah Owyang in his post on December 27. […] Like the film industry, the Golden Era is the emergence period, when fresh innovation in a new medium is born. New techniques,…

  • Goodwill 2012

    There’s been plenty of talk in recent days of a war being over. Depends on your perspective, I think. I would imagine, if you’re in Iraq, your view of things may be that war is not over. In any case,…