Podcast: Viral Rhymes

The BBC World Service Business Daily version of my piece on Nursery Rhymes: History’s Most Viral Startup? (The Business Daily podcast is here; the original piece is here.)   Loose Wireless 110330 To listen to Business Daily on the radio, tune into BBC World Service at the following times, or click here.  Australasia: Mon-Fri 0141*, 0741  East Asia: Mon-Fri 0041, … Read more

Podcast: Facebook, Hitler and iPad Grandma

Thispodcast is from my weekly slot on Radio Australia Today with Phil Kafcaloudes and Adelaine Ng, wherein I chat about: Facebook’s new initiative: a deal with the devil or a whole new web? YouTube takes down copyright infringing-content. Including all those Hitler parody videos 99 year old woman gets iPad for birthday, writes limerick Connecting … Read more

Podcast: Hackers on Film, Cellphone Recycling ATMs

Thispodcast is from my weekly slot on Radio Australia Today with Phil Kafcaloudes and Adelaine Ng, wherein I chat about: The hacker on celluloid How to recyle your phone via an ATM machine (and get some money for it). etc etc… To listen to the podcast, click on the button below. To subscribe, click here. Loose … Read more

Another Newsmapping Site: newsQuakes

Just got an email from Ronan Cremin, who points me to his newsQuakes: world news for the lazy. Hover over the quakes to see the headlines, click to go to actual news article. As Ronan says in his email, newsQuakes ‘uses a similar approach to Buzztracker, but predates it by about 3 years. Not as … Read more