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Full story: Wikio top 30 UK tech blogs for April 2010
It’s the start of a new month and a new ranking of UK tech blogs from my friends at Wikio, the search engine and news portal. Here’s a preview peek at the top 30 from the full list comprising the top 100 tech blogs in the UK which Wikio will be publishing in the next few days: TechCrunch Europe (+1) Geeky Gadgets (+1) Coolest Gadgets (+1) Econsultancy blog (+1) BBC Internet blog (+2) The Red Ferret Journal (=) Electricpig.co.uk (+1)…
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Full story: Finally, a mobile phone to upgrade to
I love the iPhone. Everyone I know who has one loves theirs, too. I differ from most people I know, though, in that I rarely use it as a phone: for me, it’s an app platform exclusively, not a phone at all (you can see me waxing uber-lyrical about the iPhone and apps elsewhere in this blog). So I have another device that I use for phone calls and text messaging – a Nokia N95 8GB. It’s what I call…
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #539: April 1, 2010
Content summary: Donna Papacosta is guest co-host in Neville’s absence; please vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; if you’re using the FIR widget, it’s time to take it down; Dan York reports on a Facebook gaffe; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; News That Fits: Facebook plans to let you "like" a page rather than become a "fan," launch of Unvarnished is one more signal that you don’t own your personal brand, Neville reports on a motor industry conference focused on…
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Full story: A benchmark established for blogger responsibility
A significant event happened yesterday that embraces freedom of speech, blogging and notions of responsibility for one’s actions. It concerns a blog post written by Rod Liddle (a journalist), published on a blog run by The Spectator (a weekly political magazine owned by the Telegraph Media Group), and ruled by the Press Complaints Commission (the mainstream media regulator in the UK) to have breached its code of editorial practice regarding dealing with a reader complaint. In his post, Liddle wrote…











