redefining the way we consume content. this is smart stuff following on from Mag+

report on news / info consumption commissioned by AP

easily the best take on local news I've ever seen

this is really interesting... news, information as currency and how it spreads.

fascinating idea about mining twitter for trending topics and posting back related news...

they can, no they can't, no they can...

woopeedoo. tagger /freebase is interesting - need to think about this for Muddy

thinking hat ON. check. as a way into news this is quite neat... muddy app ahoy.

a great overview of the way in which joe public got involved in the Mumbai Attack and started to document and re-present it

"Twitterers are hair-trigger communicators, and presumably absolutely itching to get something of substance into their despatches. Whereas a journalist has a reasonably strong incentive not to broadcast misleading or dubious information, because such an eventuality would come with a professional cost, a Twitterer owes no duty except to their own impressions and their own state of mind. They'll pass on rumour as readily as fact, and there's absolutely no way of telling which is which." filters, again.

2 years on and where are we...

what to do with twitter. some obvious and useful points esp in comments...

splitting feeds and recommending other stuff from them using calais

Building games through existing ways of doing, making browsing more 'social' and making it easier to play. That's PMOG, Rocket On and Web Wars Eve

The Reuters news API mash-ups.

breaking news plotted on a world map.... cool. Maybe adding a heatmap of really 'newsy' places would be more interesting.

Using Open Calais to extract terms from Reuters news articles, this breaks news down into people, places, organisations etc, and then aggregates stories at these levels, bringing the most popular stories to the top. Great prototype, lots of scope here...

via russell. web first print later is obvious but takes a while to kick in for the print indst. print as an aggregator of stories and web activity [i.e. 'social' interest such as feedback, popularity and attention]. lots of scope for ripples on differe

an insider in the C4 newsroom twitters about the behind the scenes action. Deconstructing the news? not quite, but gives you some sneaky titbits of information. Love the phrase "always inside, ocassional insight"

"Research carried out a few years ago found that moderate game players have a bigger circle of friends than non-game players," Interesting stat. How close are these 'friends' though? Important to define the strength of connection here. Cause and effect?

neat! navel gazing geek narcissism becoming ever more possible...

Bit frustrating to see such an OTT headline. People have always played games with other people (yes including families!), it's not a social change! What Nintendo have done is realised that this need exists and has provided a more suitable and modern pla

quick review of byron's review which needs to be read. I'm hoping that they'll be some clear headed evidence about video gaming; some balance is needed to the knee jerk liberal response on the subject.

which only play in myspace profiles but you can embed 'em. be nice if you could also display dynamic scores amongst friends and wider net. that'd be cool. it potentially opens up simple game genres to more complex narratives too...