Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Le Web, Blogging, User Generated Content

This is an interesting conference about blogging -

"Le Web 3, a conference for bloggers and supporters of internet media developments, is taking place in Paris, France."

"Robin Hamman, a journalist for BBC English Regions and co-ordinator of the BBC Blogs Network, will be filing regular updates from the conference. "

BBC News Technology - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6168777.stm.

Robin Hamman is also writing about Le Web on his personal blog at http://www.cybersoc.com.

Blogging 'set to peak next year' - Gartner Group

This report from the Gartner group and is among its predictions on the BBC web site.

'The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner. '

BBC News Technology - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178611.stm.

'You' named Time's person of 2006

"You" have been named as Time magazine's Person of the Year for the growth and influence of user-generated content on the internet.

This article in BBC News Technology explains that Time magazine "The US magazine praised the public for "seizing the reins of the global media" and filling the web's virtual world."

BBC News Technology - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187113.stm.

Social networks Bebo and MySpace were the two most searched for terms of 2006 using Google's search engine.

BBC News Technology - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6189809.stm.

This article is a useful guide to Blogging terminology

WebProNews - Blog Terminology 101 - http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20061215BlogTerminology101.html - Geoff Simon

This BBC article explains how teenagers are making use of networking sites - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6235503.stm.

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