In a surprise move, RCR Wireless announced March 3rd it is shutting down, after 25 years of covering the wireless segment. I’ve read the trade mag on and off over the last 15 years and in many ways I’m not surprised.First, it reflects the...
Topics: Content, Messaging, Mobile Advertising, News

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While it might be rather tongue in cheek, over on my personal blog I’ve built on the idea that having good tools is all well and good for reporting news and passing around information, but it’s how those tools are used that makes a...
Topics: filofax, humour, media, Mobile messaging 2.0, News, paper, Twitter

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With the Israeli-Hamas conflict entering its third week and the war zone still off-limits to the world’s major media organisations, it’s increasingly difficult to get balanced reporting.Whether balanced coverage is even possible or desirable,.
Topics: Activism, Al Jazeera, Gaza, Israel, Location, Locative, Mashup, Mobile messaging 2.0, Politics, SMS, Twitter, Ushahidi

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A wise man once said that “predicting the future is the art of seeing the present logically extended”. As 2009 begins, there’s no doubt that for many, it will be a tough year especially given the difficult economic crisis we find...
Topics: Mobile messaging 2.0

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I’m intrigued by Dave Winer’s use of Twitter to leverage the RSS feeds of his friends into his personal version of Friend-Feed.By taking the RSS of his friends blogs, pushing them through some scripts, he has created an alert service on a Twitter...
Topics: Acquisitions/Mergers, Communication, Social Networking, Software, Twitter

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