It has recently come to light that Apple CEO Steve Jobs attempted to get a knighthood; however it was snubbed after he declined to speak at a Labour party conference. … [Read more...]
Egypt Protests & Social Media: Film Project Using Twitter & YouTube
February 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
Most people will be aware of the recent protests and demonstrations in Egypt which finally lead to President Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak standing down but some of you may not be aware of how much social media played a part in the uprising. Now a filmmaker, who noted what a huge part social media … [Read more...]
Libya Protests: Internet Access Shut Down as Unrest Grows
February 19, 2011 2 Comments
The world is a changing place at the moment and social media and its use is playing a very big part in that. Following on from the recent unrest in Tunisia and then also Egypt where the Internet was shut down to try to curb the spread of protests and demonstrations, now the people of Libya have … [Read more...]
Google’s $5 Million on Lobbyists: Privacy advocates worried
February 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
We have recently noted the growing impact of social media upon politics and two weeks ago reported on the fact that Google was protecting its interests by using lobbying in California to oppose a Social Network Privacy act. Now we’ve seen some news that illustrates exactly how seriously Google is … [Read more...]
Facebook Protects its Interests with Lobbying in California
January 13, 2011 2 Comments
Over recent years Facebook has gained more relevance and also influence over day-to-day life and earlier today we asked whether it was taking over our lives. Well, it seems that the popular social networking site is also increasingly influencing the political sphere as well. … [Read more...]
WikiLeaks and Twitter: Four supporters’ accounts subpoenaed by US
January 8, 2011 13 Comments
We’ve been following the WikiLeaks saga for many months and of course covered the most recent round of leaks and the story of its founder Julian Assange’s fight not to be extradited to face questioning in Sweden over sex crime allegations. We also told readers about how organizations such as … [Read more...]
Social Media and Politics: Future impact
January 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
Here at OSM we’ve noted the growing ties between social media and politics for some time. At the time of the Midterm Elections we noted the race using social media and also how many news organizations were now using social media for their coverage. We then also noted the links between the winners … [Read more...]
Wikileaks Not Banned From Facebook: No Violation
December 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
The whole Wikileaks saga does not want to go away, and for a site that thought that the world was against it would have been happy that Twitter was on its side. We do not know for how long, but we can also report that Facebook is not ready to ban their page just yet. … [Read more...]
Wikileaks website woes worsen: Now banned by PayPal
December 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
We’ve been bringing you news about Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website for some time now and know that it’s a controversial subject. While some feel the site goes too far and threatens U.S. national security, others feel that it’s a good thing that many of the leaks so far should have … [Read more...]
Wikileaks’ Assange wanted by Interpol: Persecution not prosecution?
December 1, 2010 1 Comment
Here at OSM we’ve been keeping you informed about the latest round of Wikileaks leaks. We told how the Wikileaks website was under a mass distributed denial of service attack, and then posted an article on some of the key points from the leaked cables. … [Read more...]
Wikileaks Update: Leaked cables key points
November 29, 2010 1 Comment
Last week we brought you the news that another major leak of documents was about to come from Wikileaks, the whistle blowing site, which it said would redefine global history. Then yesterday we brought more news to say the site was under a mass distributed service of denial attack, shortly before … [Read more...]
Facebook Live Event On Cyber Monday: George W. Bush
November 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
We’ve seen some novel new ways of marketing and promotion lately with news of a Coca-Cola promotion in conjunction with SCVNGR and Jay-Z promoting his book “Decoded” with a Bing campaign. Now it’s George W. Bush who has a book to promote and he’s making the usual rounds of promotional … [Read more...]
Wikileaks Website Down: Twitter Updates On Attack
November 28, 2010 11 Comments
Regular readers of OSM may remember we recently reported that Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website, had announced via Twitter that it would shortly publish more leaks, hundreds of thousands of them, in news that it said would redefine global history. … [Read more...]
Twitter and Facebook Help Election Candidates Win?
November 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
We’ve been noting the effect of social media on politics more and more lately and it really came into its own in the recent U.S. midterm elections with many news organizations covering events using social media. We also took a look at individual politicians’ use of sites such as Twitter and … [Read more...]
Facebook pages disappear before Egypt’s parliamentary election
November 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
Egypt is a country where political activism has been made very difficult since emergency laws were put in place in 1981, thus forming a credible and popular opposition is not easy to say the least. However one area that people are still able to have a public platform is on the Internet and … [Read more...]
Facebook and Google tracking NHS website users
November 24, 2010 2 Comments
There have long been privacy concerns with Facebook, Google and others and this story about information being given to companies about people accessing an NHS website, may well worry a lot of people. It has been disclosed that users of the NHS Choices website are having the ‘conditions’ pages … [Read more...]
Wikileaks announce more leaks on Twitter – Global history redefined
November 22, 2010 2 Comments
You’ve probably heard by now of Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website that publishes leaked documents from anonymous sources. A few months ago we brought you the news of the leak of thousands of military documents, the Afghan War diaries, and the subsequent fallout. There were then further … [Read more...]
Monster.Com and the White House: Your views on unemployment count
November 8, 2010 1 Comment
We’ve recently seen with the Midterm Elections 2010 how social media is being increasingly used in politics including how many news organizations offered coverage of the election through social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. … [Read more...]
Election Day 2010: Multiple news organizations using social media
November 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
Today, November 2, is mid-term Election Day 2010 in the U.S. and no doubt people across the country will be heading out to the polls soon to cast their votes. Yesterday we told how the use of social media is growing in political campaigning and it’s also true that social media news coverage of … [Read more...]
Spending Review 2010: Twitter reactions
October 21, 2010 Leave a Comment
Yesterday saw the government Spending Review 2010 from George Osborne and as expected some of the most severe cuts were announced for public spending in many years. It’s estimated that around 490,000 public sector jobs will be lost and departmental budgets face cuts that average 19% over the … [Read more...]
Facebook live stream from ABC for Midterm Elections in November
October 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
As the use of social media becomes increasingly important in the field of politics it appears that Facebook is proving its intent to get in on the live streaming market by teaming up with ABC to provide coverage on election night. … [Read more...]
Ed Miliband new Labour leader – Result sets Twitter alight
September 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
Earlier today we gave you news on how to follow the Labour Party Leadership results as it was announced at the Labour Conference in Manchester. The announcement was to be made late this afternoon and many people wanted to follow what was happening on live blogs, or on Twitter or Facebook. … [Read more...]
Labour Leadership Race Announcement – Follow with Twitter and Facebook
September 25, 2010 Leave a Comment
Today the long-awaited announcement of who has won the post as Labour Leader will take place after the Leadership Race comes to its conclusion at the party conference in Manchester. The frontrunners are brothers Ed and David Miliband although the other 3 candidates Diane Abbott, Ed Balls and Andy … [Read more...]
Online survey reveals unrest with Liberal Democrat supporters
September 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
As the Liberal Democrat conference is taking place in Liverpool this weekend there is some news of an online survey which shows deep unrest among Liberal Democrat supporters and the poll results are likely to be a real blow to Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg. … [Read more...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon Reaches 100,000 Twitter Followers
September 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming more and more popular in the world of politics nowadays. Many politicians and world leaders have jumped on the social networking bandwagon including the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. … [Read more...]
