• Now, Turkey Is Trying To Block YouTube
    Following the ban of social media site Twitter in Turkey last week, yesterday Youtube had also been blocked in the country. The ban came after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted by Reuters at a rally last week saying: 'I don't understand how people of good sense could defend this Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. There are all kinds of lies there.'
  • Crackle Caves To Netflix, Amazon Competition
    Looks like the video services war in the U.K. just produced its first casualty: Sony is closing down the U.K. edition its Crackle video service on April 1 (hat tip to Broadband TV News). Crackle is offering viewers free, ad-supported video content, including full-length movies and TV show episodes. The service also operates in the U.S. as well as Canada, Australia and close to 20 countries across Latin America, and those operations aren't affected by this closure.
  • Europeans Concerned About Sharing With Brands
    A study by Loudhouse for Orange discovered that consumer trust was falling in every sector monitored within a 12 month period, with social media experiencing the biggest dip. A total of 46% of mobile phone users in France, Poland, Spain and the UK said they trusted social networks less.
  • Physician Warns Against 'WhatsAppitis'
    The case, described by the doctor in the Lancet, said the patient was suffering sudden pain in both wrists after waking up in the morning. Ins Fernandez-Guerrero, of Granada's General University hospital, wrote that the patient "had no history of trauma and had not engaged in any excessive physical activity in previous days". She ruled out carpal tunnel syndrome and nerve damage.
  • Trinity Mirror Regionals Out With 'Newsroom 3.1'
    Trinity Mirror is to restructure all of its regional news operations - with a renewed focus on digital content and a "specialist print publishing unit" at each base responsible for turning the day's online news output into a newspaper. The publisher's operations in the north-east have been announced as the first to switch to the new system, where journalists' "working day will no longer be built around print products".
  • Court Rules Out Government Ban On Twitter
    A court in Ankara has ruled that the Turkish government cannot ban Twitter, and ordered the country's telecommunications authority to restore access to the service, which the authorities sought to block five days ago. It was not immediately clear whether the ruling would be appealed, or would be overtaken by a new court order.
  • The Sun Prints Dedicated Hashtags Alongside Stories
    The move is designed to encourage readers of the tabloid newspaper to share their thoughts online and extend the digital reach of Sun stories. It is part of a concerted push by News UK to develop more of a significant presence for The Sun since it placed all its digital content behind a paywall in August 2013. The publisher has recruited a dedicated Sun social media team led by former Daily Telegraph journalist James Manning.
  • BuzzFeed Reveals Reasons People Share Content
    Social sharing has put the "power" into the hands of readers, BuzzFeed's Jonathan Perelman told a conference in Birmingham yesterday. Perelman, general manager of video and vice president of agency strategy at BuzzFeed, said sharing has allowed readers to go "up the economic value chain" to the point where they are in charge. As a result, he explained that it was more important then ever for content to appeal to readers on an emotional level.
  • BBC Three Online To Make 'Far Fewer' Shows
    BBC Three will make "far fewer" shows when it shifts online, channel controller Zai Bennett has admitted. In autumn 2015, BBC Three will close as a broadcast TV channel, with its most popular programs heading to iPlayer. Speaking March 24 at a BAFTA TV Question Time panel, Bennett said that the shift will affect the quantity but not the quality of the channel's output.
  • UK Trolls May Get Longer Prison Sentences
    As it stands, trolling or harassing people over the internet or the phone can earn the abuser a jail term of up to six months, under the Malicious Communications Act. On Monday, Member of Parliament (MP) Angie Bray tabled an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill that would make it possible for such offenses to be tried at a crown court rather than a magistrates' court, with sentences having a new maximum of two years.
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