Social browsing with Flock

Posted: April 8, 2008 in internet, Technology
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If you’re into social networking sites, blogging and sharing stuff you find on the web, you know it can get crazy trying to keep track of it all. Which is why you might want to take a look at a browser you may not have heard of, called Flock. What makes Flock stand out from other browsers is that you can build direct links to things like your Facebook account, MyGoogle, My Yahoo, your blogs, Twitter, Flickr and so on – and makes sharing between them as easy and drag and drop right from a web page. You can also run news feeds and media from YouTube right in the browser as well as keep track of your networked buddies in handy sidebars. Importing bookmarks, cookies and other preferences from other browsers was a snap. If I have one criticism is that there seem to be so many bells and whistles that it can seem a little overwhelming and busy but once you’ve got the hang of it, it might just become your favourite browser. The much improved 1.1 version is out now.

Bryan bows out in style

Posted: April 4, 2008 in Bermuda, football, media
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I missed it but I hear veteran newsman Bryan Darby bowed out of the local media in style last week. Signing off, he assured VSB listeners that Bermuda’s soccer team were out of the World Cup, having drawn 0-0 in Cayman. Unfortunately, Bryan had been taking the news from the ESPN site which didn’t update the score until the end of the game. Bermuda won 3-1 to win 4-2 on aggregate and earn a tie with the Soca Warriors of Trinidad & Tobago.

Enjoy your retirement in Canada, Darbs – we will miss you. The last of a generation of legendary journo rogues and gentleman.

Righting online errors

Posted: April 4, 2008 in Bermuda, media
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The local media are pretty good these days about running corrections – at least in print. But what about the online version of the copy. I had occasion to ask The Royal Gazette to run a correction this week, which they duly did – but the incorrect version lives on online, as I suspect many others do. The result is that this incorrect fact will no doubt be taken as gospel by subsequent readers and continue to be repeated, requiring another printed correction and so on. Surely the advantage of the web is that things can be changed quickly – so why, when an error has been acknowledged can at least the online version of a story be edited? Many other online news sites either insert clearly marked corrections, have clearly-designated correction areas on the home page or add the correction at the foot of the story. Some media sites are touchy about changing “archived copy” but this is nonsense in this day and age. If something is wrong, it’s wrong – and surely no newspaper worth its ink wants to print errors. Correct the online copy and be done with it. We all make mistakes.

For more on this subject, I recommend visiting Regret The Error, a whole site devoted to the topic of media corrections – humourous and otherwise – by Canadian author and freelancer Craig Silverman.

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