Eyes down it's quiz time!

1. What is an RSS link?

RSS (an abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feeds formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blogs entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

2. Name three BBC journalists whose blog sites cover economics, arts and sport.

Stephanie Flanders runs an economics blog as she is the economics editor.
Razia Iqbal is the BBC's arts correspondant and has an art and culture blog.
There isn't a specific blogger for sports, it's a collaborated effort by the editors.

3. Which social networking sites have recently signed up to an EU code of practice on Child Safety?

There are seven in total including:
Facebook
Bebo
My Space

4. Which campaign's successful use of social networking has won it PR Week's campaign of the year award?

Barack Obama's campaign.

5. What is a podcast?

An audio programme in a compressed digital format, delivered via an RSS feed over the Internet to a subscriber and designed for playback.

6. Define 'Twitter' in no more than 140 characters.

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read other users' updates.

7. What four letter work could you use to describe how most web users read copy online?

Scan

8. What is social bookmarking?

A method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the internet.

9. Name five of the most popular sites.

Digg, Reddit, Blinklist, Wikink, Scuttle.

10. What is Plain English? Describe in no more than 50 words.

Basically means plain language that is simple and easy for others to understand.

11. Find an original example of a sentence or paragraph in gobbledygook. Then transform using the principles of Plain English.

Gobbledygook example=
It is a tricky problem to find the particular calibration in timing that would be appropriate to stem the acceleration in risk premiums created by falling incomes without prematurely aborting the decline in the inflation-generated risk premiums.

Plain English=
It is a problem to find the right timing that is suitable to stop the speed up risk created by falling wages without quickly stopping the fall in price rises generated by risk of first-rates.

12. Name three recent international news stories 'broken' by twitter users?

The Hudson River plane crash
Earthquake 2008
Schiphol Plane crash.