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eBay Libel Threat After Negative Feedback – When Online Libel Gets Personal

Danny — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:55:42 +0000

Chris Read, a 42-year-old from Kent, is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction site eBay. On October 3, Read used the feedback facility on eBay and wrote: “Item was scratched, chipped and not the model advertised on Mr Jones’s eBay account.” Mr Read subsequently [...]

Internet Forums More Like Slander than Libel, Says High Court Judge Eady

Danny — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:23:14 +0000

The ground is moving under Community libel legislation, one ruling at a time. The latest is a judgement from Justice Eady that Defamation on internet bulletin boards is more like slander than libel. Justice Eady said that bulletin board discussions are characterised by “give and take” and should be considered in that context.

In English [...]

How Do I Embed Google Lively 3D Rooms into My Site or Facebook?

Danny — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:48:49 +0000

UPDATE: Google Lively has announced that it is shutting down its service on 31 December 2008. More details here.

How to embed Google Lively 3d Rooms into your site or Facebook – I’m getting a lot of questions about this since I posted my article about the launch of Google Lively.

Embedding [...]

Google Launches “LIVELY” – The Virtual World to Embed into Your Website

Danny — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:09:53 +0000

Lively Google – Google Lively: Google launches Google Lively 3D Service.

Note: If you are looking for an article on how to embed Google Lively into your website go here.

Not a day passes without a new 3D world start-up launching, trying to cash in on the new 3d world fashion. The aim [...]

Younger generation gets news from community, not from news sites (Prof Dr Jo Groebel)

Danny — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:10:52 +0000

Speaker: Prof Dr Jo Groebel - Director, The German Media Institute

New Media Conference & Expo 2008 – Bucharest (live blogging from the event)

Some highlights:

- Research shows that the younger generation doesn’t visit news online sites, they collect their news from their online community, and they trust it more.

- We [...]

BBC shuts Today Programme discussion boards – Moderation on media sites

Danny — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:18:05 +0000

Not so surprising news that the BBC has decided to close down its Today Programme discussion boards, in a similar way to how the Daily Mail closed their news and Sports forums (some now re-opened), and The Mirror closed their Maddie forum.

I still recall how the online editor of a tabloid newspaper rang [...]