Red Herring Of The Day: Social Media Are Like A Train Station
The starring role of social media services like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger in the recent riots in England has been much-debated: today… Read more »
England Riots Boost Local Newspaper Sales And Traffic
photo: Getty Images / Dan Kitwood
As civil unrest engulfed the streets of English cities from Birmingham to Manchester, news-hungry readers flocked to the websites of local n… Read more »
What I Learned Mapping The London Riots
photo: Getty Images / Dan Istitene
“Wouldn’t it be interesting”, I thought, “if I did a little map of where the riots are?” So, at 6 o’clock or so last night, I started to put… Read more »
UK Riots: BlackBerry Hacked, Sony Burned, eBay On Alert
Four days in, and more tech company fallout from the riots in the UK: RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), which has found itself in the story because rioters… Read more »
In London Riots, Content Burns, Twitter Heaves
Sony DADC disc distribution warehouse burned down: “(It) housed the entire inventory of PIAS UK, the primary distribution hub for more than… Read more »
As Riots Spread In London, RIM Will ‘Assist Police’. PS3 Also Playing Role?
As the sun goes down on London, the riots that started in the north of the city a few days ago in response to a shooting have spread to a nu… Read more »
The Role Of BlackBerry In London’s Street Riots
photo: Flickr / lilivanili
In October 1985, on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham where the death of Cynthia Jarrett sparked riots that culminated in the brutal m… Read more »
