Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Social Media Challenges Social Rules
[This can be read on the BBC News website too...]
Last week I sat around a large table on the top floor of Bush House in London with about twenty other people while we talked about the ways radio is changing and tried to imagine how English-language programming on BBC World Service could take advantage of [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in billblog by bill
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Is Facebook Really Bad for You?
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website]
The examination period is always stressful, both for those sitting GCSEs, A levels and the International Baccalaureate and for their parents and siblings who get ‘second-hand stress’ without even a certificate to show for their efforts.
My friends and I used to revise together, hoping that it would [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in billblog by bill
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Beware complacency, not cancer
[As ever, this on the BBC News website. And as of this morning Facebook seems to have decided to open up some of its processes to user engagement, so the dangers I talk of may be avoided]
The fuss over Facebook’s attempt to modify the contract with its millions of users has died down for the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in billblog by bill
Monday, December 29th, 2008
Facebook foolishness
I like Facebook, and I use it a lot, but I don’t trust random applications that ask for access to my profile data or want to be able to post on my Wall, so I don’t add them even when people I like ask me to do so – I’ll settle for the few apps [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in billstuff by bill
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Facing the Music
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
The coming year is not going to be a comfortable one for Facebook.
It might just manage to avoid upsetting its users with new services like Beacon, the misjudged advertising feature that told your friends about your purchases.
It might spot fake profiles of famous people, like the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in billblog by bill
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I fought the law…
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
Like most journalists of my acquaintance I’m very sloppy about keeping my online communications secure.
I rarely encrypt email messages, leaving them to be read by anyone in the electronic chain between me and the intended recipient.
And I use public chat services like MSN Messenger [...]
