A recent study from Facebook into the personal pages of journalists has shown how to get the most click-throughs and interaction on the links you post. And yes, it's about putting in more time and personalising them more. Facebook analysed the public pages of journalists on Facebook - open pages, not profiles - places where…

It's rough-terrain ready and has an eco-friendly fuel system but one thing the whizzy futuristic gadget couldn't do was make way for a dog without sending its rider plummeting backwards over a cliff. Sounds like a dog-walker was the inadvertent cause of the Segway accident that took the life of their British owner: Jimi Heselden.…

It has been top of the news agenda in the UK for the past week, but News of The World hasn't been trending on Twitter, since well, the scandal properly broke last Thursday. Tweeters watching the flood of tweets on the #NOTW hashtag have questioned why it hasn't appeared in the list of UK trending…

The Sunday Times tried to hack the emails of anonymous sex bloggers Belle de Jour and Girl with A One Track Mind claimed Zoe Margolis (of Girl With A One Track Mind) on Twitter today. If true, we can add anonymous female sex bloggers to the list of people targeted by the News International papers.…

Ever caught yourself wondering what timepiece Fox Mulder from X-Files was wearing in episode 4, series 2? Even if the answer is no - you may find yourself entranced by the blog foxmulderswristwatch.com that lovingly tracks the wristwatches of Mulder in. The bloggers screengrab scenes where his watch pops out, then post them and identify…

Twitter sure knows how to get the most out of a media scandal. Tweeters have been at the forefront of the effort to punish News International for using the social network to organise protests against it and to pressurize advertisers into withdrawing. The Guardian uncovered the scandal, but it has been Twitter that got the…

UM - forget the Arizona police and the music industry, Apple is the new target of the hacking movement #AntiSec. Hackers loosely allied with hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous have thieved some data from Apple - the names and passwords of users in their business intelligence unit, according The AnonymousIRC Twitter account linked to a…

An artist has stuck a giant plume of orange silk on top of the Statue of Liberty's torch - but you can only see it when looking through your mobile phone. It's an Augmented Reality artwork - which means it doesn't actually exist. Or it does - but only on your phone. Or in your…

Blackberry still have a big customer base and great brand-name, but dark clouds are gathering over the smartphone makers and the RIM leadership refuse to acknowledge it. So it's down to an anonymous disgruntled employee to voice some of the problems those higher up haven't. And s/he has - by sending an unsigned open letter…

Did playing the guy from Napster in The Social Network film make Justin think he really is a web 2.0 entrepreneur? Well anyway, he's one of several stake holders who has bought MySpace from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp at a massive reduction from what it sold for 2006. News Corp sold MySpace last night for…