Twitter and Blog

Today we were all introduced to Twitter. We had to make an account and follow our classmates and teacher, and is from now on going to use also this website to communicate with each other. Twitter is an American internet community and a micro-blogging service where you can upload your own, and read others updates (also called tweets). To see peoples tweets you just push the button "follow" and then every update they are posting is shown on your homepage. Actually I think Twitter is no bad idea, you can chose which updates you would see, have direct contact with someone and  link other people in your update so they get a notification  on their Twitter and e-mail and are able to tweet you back!

We have also worked with our blog today and have checked for instance how many people who have read our blogs these past few months. My statistics at the moment is like this:

• Page Views Today: 33
• Page Views Yesterday: 5

• Page Views Last Month: 148

• Page Views Overall: 285

There is an ongoing competition in class of who gets the most visitors on their blog and from most foreign countries. At the moment I have had visitors from several corners around the world. Norway and USA are highly represented, but among these two, I also have visitors from Germany, Britain, France, India, Russia, Australia, Brazil and Chile.

I think it is fun to read other blogs, and enjoys the Twitter updates from my friends! I recommend everyone to go and create a Twitter account!

My Edublog Nominations

Every year it is difficult to find the best blogs, but this year I have decided to nominate in the following categories:

- Best student blog

    - Sara Ismars blog

- Best teacher blog

    - My English teacher Ann Michaelsens blog

- Best group blog

    - The Powerful Learning Practice groupblog

So here is my nominations. Take a look at the different blogs!

The News of the World scandale

Earlier this year the famous British newspaper "News of the World" was put down because of their continuously use of phone hacking and police bribery to get the most juicy stories and the information no one else had. Investigations were started when prince William read stories about him which he couldn't understand why anyone would know. He started everything by having investigators checking if anyone was phone hacking him. The result was concluded with the fact that the phone hacking was limited to celebrities, politicians and the British Royal Family. This, however, was not the whole truth.

After several investigation there has been found other serious incidents regarding the New of the World. To make a short summary I have listed a few main incidents that made the News of the World  to end their 168 years of bringing news to the people every Sunday.

• November 2005: People of prince Williams crew asked the police to investigate the newspaper for possible phone hacking.

• January 2007: The newspapers king editor Clive Goodman was imprisoned for four months for monitoring the royal answering machines. It was known that also other famous people were monitored. The News of the World editor in chief retired and denied any knowledge to the case.

• July 2009: The newspaper The Guardian claimed that almost 3000 celebrities, politicians and sport stars was monitored.

• February 2010: The Parliament doubted the fact that no leaders of the newspaper new about the monitoring and everything that was going on, but they didn't find direct evidence against Coulson himself.

• September 2010: A former reporter in the paper claimed that Coulson himself personally were behind the use of phone hacking. A new parliament investigation were started.

• 21th of January: Coulson dropped out from his position as the Prime ministers leader of the media. A few  days later the police started just another investigation.

• 10th of April: The newspaper published an apology to everyone who were monitored.

• July 2011: It was known that the newspaper hacked phones who belonged to victims of crime and their  relatives. They had also done the same with relatives of killed soldiers of the Afghanistan and Iraq war. News of the World had also hacked Milly Dowlers phone after she was murdered in 2002. They listened to her voicemail from after she were dead and deleted the voicemails one by one so it were room for more. Police thinks it can be serious evidence deleted from the phone because of the newspaper.

• 7th of July: News of the Worlds owner company News International reviled that the paper was closing down because of the new revelations.