An excellent survey of “citizen journalism” and the switch of news consumption to being a) continuous b) online by Stephen Quinn of Deakin University, Australia, writing in Ohmynews. The key stats: – Internet advertising in the United States jumped 38 percent to a record $3.9 billion in the first quarter of this year as more …

Michel Edouard Leclerc, chief executive of French supermarket Leclerc launch on May 22nd 2006 a price comparison website quiestlemoinscher.com (“who’s cheapest?”). Last Wednesday (7th June) a the commercial court of Paris, prompted by competitors (chiefly Carrefour) forced Leclerc to withdraw the site, citing a lack of transparency. Leclerc says he will be back. Leclerc writes …

Two recent U.S. marketing campaigns have used social media to connect with a mass audience. First came Philips Norelco Bodygroom with their shaveeverywhere.com campaign. This jokey video as well as being hosted on its own domain was posted at youtube.com and at heavy.com and has allegedly been downloaded one billion times. Now Gillette have launched …

An image from the hard-drive of the man who “sold faulty laptop” This site tells part of the extraordinary story of how one man – Thomas Sawyer – was sold a non-functioning laptop on eBay, failed to get redress from the seller, and devoted his energy and resources to using the internet to damaging Tofangsazan’s …