September 2010
1 post
Spot on from Andy Dickinson
“It’s easy to dismiss putting time in to getting your multimedia on twitter as a waste of time. Like the ipad, it’s easy to dismiss things like twitters new features as gadgets and technology that get in the way of proper journalism.
But experimenting with getting a video on to twitter is not about video on twitter. That’s the easy (now easier bit). It’s about exploring if you have the...
July 2010
10 posts
“I think the greatest realisation at the end of the evening though was agreeing...”
– Future of News bootcamp: make money in travel journalism « Adam Westbrook
good points about collaboration....
Trust the Crowd; Its Smarter than You — The sooner you trust the group and empower it, the sooner it can produce high quality results. The group can make up for any weaknesses you may have as an individual. The idea is to bring out the strongest skills and downplay the weakest in each person.
Diversity and Creativity Are Intrinsically Connected — Creative brainstorming is...
“Why is social media so powerful? Two reasons. Trust: we don’t send our friends...”
– SimsBlog: If Newspapers Cease to Be, There Will be Two Causes of Death
“If you consider mass media to be important, by which I mean the kind of news,...”
– Free content isn’t a right but David Mitchell is still wrong about paywalls – Telegraph Blogs
pretty much sums up what makes me uncomfortable about paywalls…
Challenges of the Social Technology Industry →
“Perspective is lost when we over focus on the disruptions from such simple technologies. ”
A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions: →
very handy reference via @RobmurrayUk
How much to launch a new media brand or project? →
clutter: On "hyperlocal" blogging and reasonable... →
Some of the TBD people have been talking about David Rothman’s suggestions for their business today. I found the post interesting, not just because of the TBD angle, but because of what it seems to say about Rothman’s understanding about the local blog scene.
Rothman suggests that TBD needs…
June 2010
13 posts
Postcards from Hell - By Elizabeth Dickinson |... →
Woah.
“Here is the deepest and, to many serious journalists, most disturbing truth...”
– Nieman Reports | Feeling the Heat: The Brain Holds Clues for Journalism
Watchbrilliant
“People will not want to buy a newspaper every day to find out about (normally)...”
– Nieman Reports | Aaron Chum
There’s a whole world of assumptions in this 14-year-old’s essay about the future of news that are completely contradictory to the way most of our industry thinks.
Will he have changed his mind by the time he’s 20, or 40? Or should we be thinking about...
“The countries where online newspaper website consumption is highest – Korea,...”
– Japan and Korea have kept their newspaper readers, so why can’t Fleet Street? | Media | The Observer
“Newspapers that view the website as a place for reverse-publishing articles are...”
– Headlines and Deadlines: Why it’s time to throw away the dummy (or whatever it’s called in your newsroom)
“It seems vaguely appropriate that Coren should be spitting teeth for an...”
– What makes Coren so cross? - Press, Media - The Independent (via Jon Slattery)
No Rock And Roll Fun: hair adverts fine,... →
All very true, but why pick on Cheryl? The same applies to every single beauty product advert there is. (but especially mascara)
“Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not...”
– Teaching Online Journalism » Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
Out of curiousity, does anyone know how many UK journalism courses teach CSS?
May 2010
25 posts
“Well this answers that question:
“Everyone” Information. Information set to...”
– and be imported, exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and others without privacy limitations.
so that means newspapers CAN just steal pictures from Facebook. Interesting.
Facebook | Privacy policy
“When you publish content or information using the “everyone”...”
– Facebook | Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
Journos: does this means that if a picture is public you can “use” it for your publication?
“Adams’s creation also went intergalactic in October last year. As...”
– Towel day: Douglas Adams remembered across the globe | Books | guardian.co.uk
“The people who buy the advertising, that pays for journalism to be made, want to...”
– My analogue #jeecamp doodle - Martin Belam’s currybetdotnet blog - 25 May, 2010
“I asked AP Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier about this, and he told me...”
– The Plum Line - Who woulda thunk it: Fact-checking is popular!
“Anyone who imagines they can leave the classroom for a well-paid job on a...”
– Richard Burton weighs into the “national media is the only place worth working” debate
“The parties agree to the establishment of five year fixed-term parliaments… legislation will be brought forward to make provision for fixed term parliaments of five years. This legislation will also provide for dissolution if 55% or more of the House votes in favour.”
It’s currently 50 per cent plus one vote.
Our commenters are brilliant. no, really. →
In reference to Clegg and Cameron’s first press conference:
Oversixty, Bournemouth says… I have just heard someone being interviewed on the BBC news channel who said this looked like a gay wedding in California!
a gay wedding. in california.
benjamin, hamworthy says… Even that is preferable to Brown.
“That’s a £4bn Labour tax rise spent on a £4bn Lib Dem tax cut, enacted by a Tory...”
– Snowblog
Portsmouth - "worse than Birmingham OR Manchester"... →
Poor Portsmouth. Even Adam Ant has had enough of you.
He said: ‘I’m a bit upset. I liked this place but I don’t like this place any more. ‘When I get back to London I’m telling everyone this place is worse than Birmingham or Manchester. ‘I came here to see Victory and Warrior because I’m proud to be English. I didn’t come here for this.’
“@glinner on #twitterjoketrial
To those people who put forward the view that...”
– Prague, 1965 « Why, That’s Delightful!
“Joy is it to be alive and to be allowed the role of reporter in these amazing...”
– Snowblog - Looked like a pig, flew like one – did it really fly?
Jon Snow, still excited about his job - and the new things that blogging brings to it. Brilliant.
This Is Twitter, There Are Rules: How AFP Stole a... →
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook →
good graphic, worrying trend!
“I decided ages ago not to vote for the 3 main parties.Nothing they have said has...”
– My new favourite comment of the day. He’s anti-animal cruelty but also anti- single mothers and lazy people.
Has Bournemouth had its fill of Tories?
“But what the interest in Mrs Stroud’s story on Twitter shows, is that the...”
– Benjamin Cohen on Technology - Twitter asks why have the mainstream media ignored the Philippa Stroud story?
“As the gleeful camera pointed live at Mrs Duffy’s door while the PM held...”
– Armando Iannucci: The Duffy affair turned the media into a pack of shrieking gibbons - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
“The press held up Brown’s Bigotgate outburst as evidence that he’s...”
– Charlie Brooker | Election 2010: Which leader’s public persona do you prefer? | Comment is free | The Guardian
April 2010
15 posts
#bigotgate: Would BBC rules have prevented... →