Caroline Beavon
Data journalist, social media maven, vizzy-whizz and all round online journo.
Delicious. Radio. Tv. Celebrity Big Brother: Heidi, Katia & Sov Up. Movies. US actress Brittany Murphy dies aged 32. Clips from Brittany Murphy's career (footage courtesy Paramount Pictures) Actress Brittany Murphy, star of Hollywood films such as Clueless and 8 Mile, has died at the age of 32 after collapsing at home in Los Angeles.
Coroners said that Murphy, who was pronounced dead in hospital, appeared to have died of natural causes. The Reuters news agency is reporting that the actress died of a cardiac arrest. Ashton Kutcher, co-star of the 2003 comedy Just Married, paid tribute to her as a "little piece of sunshine".
Music. Electronic. Delphic make Metro's Singles of the Week. Oldies/60s. Urban/hiphop/rap. Emo/poprock. Cobra Starship members join cancer campaign. Metal. Blues. Indie/alt. Arcadefire. Rock. Music loses Pendergras and Reatard. Misc. Blog. Politics. Spot the Fake Data. Tech. Socialmedia. Journalism. Onlinejournalism. Bookmarking. Montenegro's .me domain name gain. Montenegro's independence from Serbia lead to the creation of a .me domain.
When it comes to top level domain names, some countries are luckier than others. Take the Pacific Ocean island of Tuvalu, for instance, which offers the attractive .tv for the broadcast media. Or Tonga, whose .to domain has spawned sites such as go.to and how.to. Perhaps most fortunate of all in the name game is Montenegro. Which Flip should I buy? UPDATE: I rewrote this in October 2012.
To see new views please go here. It’s a question I’m often asked. May I start with something simple. I’m assuming you want something that is easy to use, easy to carry and makes video which is simple to edit and very quick to upload to the internet. Drew Curtis' FARK.com.
Crowdsourcing. Wikibumps Boing Boing. The elegant and useful Wikipedia article traffic statistics utility is a great poor man's Q score, but it has a lot of delightfully useless uses as well.
One of my favorites is monitoring "wikibumps," the jump in traffic that happens when an article is in the news. It turns out that wikibumps usually peak in the first 24 hours, then taper off in about a week, giving further evidence for the hypothesis that the public's memory generally extends back to the last issue of People magazine. Media companies bid to produce local ITV news bulleti. TV, newspaper and radio companies are to team up for the right to produce regional news bulletins on ITV, which cannot afford to make them itself.
The government has invited bids for three pilot news services in Scotland, Wales and the north-east of England. The process of sifting applications will begin this week. BBC - Teletext to close mid-December. The Teletext information service on analogue and digital television will close across the UK on 16 December.
Limited services including holidays, racing and bookmaking and the subtitles on analogue channels will remain available. Teletext's chat and dating TV channels on Freeview will also be unaffected. Speaking to the BBC in Jersey, Karen Rankin, the Managing Director of Broadcast at Channel TV said the closure was a commercial decision. Rupert Murdoch visit leaves newsagent nonplussed. Imagine the scene: a busy newsagent's shop in west London one morning.
A hard-pressed woman behind the counter recognises two smartly dressed men in suits as sales representatives from the newspaper publisher News International. With them is a polite, elderly gentleman she cannot place. But he is the one who asks all the questions. How many copies of this or that paper do you sell? Are you getting your copies on time?
ABCes: guardian.co.uk nears 36m users. Guardian.co.uk: world and environment stories drove strong growth The number of people using guardian.co.uk surged 13% in November to a record global audience of nearly 36 million people.
According to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic published today, the Guardian News & Media website, which includes content from the Observer and MediaGuardian.co.uk, attracted 35,792,874 unique users, up 13% on October and 37% year on year. This is the highest number of unique users in one month for any UK newspaper website, beating the previous record of nearly 33 million unique users set by guardian.co.uk in September.
Development. Musicindustry. Science. Musicblogs. Wierd. Psychology. Videos. Liveblogging.