In the world of Twittering, I have come across different types of Twitterers: 1) The overzealous twitterer – this twitterer lets you know exactly what he’s doing at any particular moment – no matter how mundane his life may be. Messages such as: “Eating a great sandwich” or “driving in my car” are characteristic of this type of user. 2) The networking twitterer – this twitterer only posts messages which show everyone else how well [...]

TechCrunch posted today that a new study by Motorola has found that 45% of Europeans now watch television online. Motorola’s Karl Elliot told the BBC: “Viewers across Europe are no longer satisfied with fitting into schedules dictated by broadcasters and are turning to the choice and flexibility offered by TV over the internet….We are witnessing a nation of citizen schedulers who are in control of their entertainment, allowing them to watch what they want, how [...]

In the last 24 hours, Digg users showed Kevin Rose and the rest of those guys over at Digg exactly who’s boss. The story started two days ago. Boing Boing writer Cory Doctorow blogged about how he had received a legal threat from the AACS licensing authority regarding publishing an encryption key for HD DVDs on a class blog using Google’s Blogger. He removed the material, and then wrote a follow-up post pointing to Spread [...]

Last Thursday I attended the Garage Geeks event entitled “A peak into the future of TV”. Amongst the speakers were the amazing Jeff Pulver, who spoke about how easy it is for each of us to create our own internet TV channel these days using the free, technological platforms which are already available to us, and Amit Or, co-founder of InLive, who embedded live graphs into his powerpoint presentation that were the result of us [...]