Image via CrunchBase The BBC has made a draft of its revised editorial guidelines available online as a PDF for public consultation. This is first time the public have been consulted on the BBC guidelines, which are updated every five years. In the 190 page document includes a short paragraph on the use of material from social media services, such as Facebook or Twitter. Section 7.4.8 in the chapter on

On Saturday, I was part of a stimulating panel at the AEJMC annual conference in Chicago discussing the digital dilemmas raised by social media.  My contribution focused on how journalists use social networking sites as part of the newsgathering process and publish material which users may consider private. The text of my talk is available after the jump (or download as PDF). The presentation is on Slideshare

Lifehacker has put together a useful, but somewhat perturbing, guide on how to track people down online. Among the sites mentioned are Pipl which digs up information about a person Google often misses, Wink which searches social networking sites and ZoomInfo which aggregates professional information. Try it for yourself. You may be surprised by how much of your personal information is floating around on the Internet. What these tools do