according to some site I've never heard of...

Perhaps the biggest coup for the event organisers is Robin Hamman, the former head of blogging for the BBC, who now runs European social media empire Headshift.

"He has spent two decades leading social media projects and was BBC head of blogging. Robin Hamman talks to us about social media sites changing the business world...."

Some wonderful photos of the remaining Maunsell See Forts off the coast of Kent

I'd forgotten about this... the Maunsell Fort in the Thames Estuary which claims to be a micro-nation

On Saturday, Afghanistan's only known pig was released from quarantine, two months after he was locked away because of swine flu fears...

The pig, a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, was quarantined because visitors to the zoo were worried it could spread the virus to people.

Channel 4's investment fund 4iP and UnLtd, an organisation supporting entrepreneurs with ideas that have a social benefit, have joined forces to create the UnLtd 4iP awards programme, offering a unique package of support to champion fresh digital ideas from individuals across the UK. The awards programme will run across two years with a monthly consideration of applications and is offering people up to £5,000 to get their socially motivated digital media idea off the ground.

Polish/Mexican restaurant with a French name in Mayfair. Must remember to try this one...

theblogpaper.co.uk is a news community which allows anyone to publish written and visual work online and in print.

I reckon that this is a great opportunity to create an application that provides shoppers with more ethical or environmentally sound product recommendations - eg. "you selected CIF Mouse bathroom cleanser, we suggest Ecover instead"

distribute audio content via itunes, emusic, amazon, etc through this hosting and download service

We're in the window to change the way TV is delivered to the living-room flatscreen. Boxee could win the prize -- and it's a big one. Don't sell to the past. Instead, be the future. It's there for the taking.

Set to cost taxpayers £1million, the new 'Civil Pages' site has reportedly been dubbed 'the Facebook of the Civil Service...without the man in the Speedos' by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.

You say they won’t pay for content online? They, if we mean consumers, do indeed pony up their credit cards regularly for online content—yes, even content from magazine brands. As we gear up for our own June 21 Webinar on “Cracking the Code” of paid content, we wanted to call out five models not everyone knows about yet. Each bears watching as publishers contemplate how to make digital media pay.

From the start of August, every O2 customer will be able to switch on text notifications within Twitter and receive replies and direct messages completely free. You’ll also be able to send updates to Twitter as part of your normal text message bundle or for the cost of a normal text.

37% watch video on their phone (6x as likely as the typical subscriber)

In contrast, third party platforms such as YouTube, Joost and other portals, which have no direct vertical affiliation with major rights holders, nor direct access to premium content rights, will struggle to aggregate ad-supported movies and TV shows.

Shows the growing, and declining, numbers of people doing specific tasks online.

"But it wasn’t really designed to involve the process you and I would know as journalism. It was intended to produce a happy simulation of a television news broadcast to a standard adequate enough to satisfy regulators."

shows retweet numbers on top of pictures sent via twitter - nice way to visualise news

A Spanish community platform with blogs, profiles, networking, forums, etc...

In the Philippines, the ABS-CBN TV network has been training citizens – 1,000 in the first recent class, 700 in the next – to report on the upcoming election there. They call it the Boto Mo iPatrol and count 15,000 members.

Guardian's fourth plinth page

The Guardian asks it's audience to help ensure not a single moment of Antony Gormley project isn't missed (the oneandother website is a headshift project)

Another great one from Adam Gee at Channel4, Landshare connects landowners with would be farmers

Personally narrated by Anderson, Free considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being challenged by a growing flood of free goods – newspapers, DVDs, T-shirts, phones, even holiday flights.

Associated Digital Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail, launches hyper-local play

"It shows that – once we get beyond the classic journalistic question of “why is this lying bastard lying to me?” – once the data is in the public domain – that this information can be used to model the big questions of our time – turned into interfaces that allow us to explore and model problems."

Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.

"Not only did we get some great enthusiastic reactions on Twitter from the people we got in contact with, but we got great coverage in the blogosphere, with 60 blogs in five languages linking to the microsite, and at least another 24 discussing the stunt with Dunlop branding associated - amongst them blogs such as Gizmodo who had initially reported the leak were more than happy to set the record straight, strengthening the Dunlop brand association. And it wasn’t just about the sentiment - the total reach of the blogs involved was 8m unique users/month and 420k RSS subscribers, far outstripping the reach of the initial misinformed coverage from the leak - and almost all of the coverage was positive to boot."

"2morro 09 will be the biggest ever festival in the UK for young people interested in changing the world and getting heard. Learn how to use technology and media to run your campaigns better, showcase and share your plans for a better future, and join us for a packed day where you can debate, explore and celebrate new possibilities."

"2morro 09 will be the biggest ever festival in the UK for young people interested in changing the world and getting heard. Learn how to use technology and media to run your campaigns better, showcase and share your plans for a better future, and join us for a packed day where you can debate, explore and celebrate new possibilities."

Huffington Post crowdsources information on low wages...

In light of the explosion of citizen journalism in Iran, Jeremy Paxman asks Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Anne McElvoy of the Evening Standard if internet journalism has come of age. Story Tools

Paul Bradshaw argues that using twitter, rather than RSS, is the way forward for newspapers...

America’s top CEOs appear to be mostly absent from the social media community, according to an analysis by UberCEO, which discovered that only two of 2009’s Fortune-100 CEOs have Twitter accounts, none have personal blogs, 13 have LinkedIn profiles and only 19 have a personal Facebook page.

The Frontline Club, the London-based media club that combines 'eating, drinking and thinking' has recently re-vamped its site and gone for a brand new look. Journalism.co.uk asked Graham Holliday, Frontline Club digital media editor, to tell us more.

NPR tries to use flickr notes to crowdsource the names of lobbyists appearing in a photo taken at a senate session...

First Light Movies funds and inspires young people, throughout the UK, to make films reflecting the diversity of their lives.

Social banking, an emerging banking distribution model, has the potential to displace banks from the center of customers' financial services relationships. The growth of social networking and the emergence of social-banking models will drive fundamental change in the ways that consumers manage their financial lives.

nature set to reclaim half finished, and now abandoned, developments in Florida...