Wired Digital, part of the Conde Nast group, has purchased the social bookmarking site Reddit for an undisclosed amount. Like Digg, Reddit is essentially a social recommendation tool for online news stories. Registered users add a story and other users… Continue Reading
OJR: Meet the new face of hyperlocal journalism A former NYT columnist explains how a local blog can challenge, and scoop, a local paper while making a business of small-town coverage. (tags: local Journalism citizenjournalism web2.0 newspaperbusiness news2.0 blogs blogging… Continue Reading
It seems everyone is jumping on the Second Life bandwagon. In the past few weeks, Wired and C-Net set up offices there, joining the BBC, who rented an Island to host a concert, and Reuters, who recently set up an… Continue Reading
BBC web 2.0 plans (??) (apparently) The BBC will not be expanding its existing blogs aggressively according to Clifton but he said he hopes to launch a new blog to be written by BBC foreign correspondents around the world. (tags:… Continue Reading
Why I shut down my blog The story of a writer who shut down her blog because it was getting in the way of her doing anything productive (tags: blog blogging bloggingtechniques blogs) What property rights do you have in… Continue Reading
Mark Briggs wants your help writing a book on “Journalism 2.0” He’s billing it as a survival guide for jouralists and journalism students navigating the changing landscape of journalism (tags: journalismtraining journalism newspaperbusiness news2.0 news) Guardian seeks to develop revenue… Continue Reading
Digg doesn’t dig NewsCorp’s acquisition offer, to seek 2nd round finance instead… San Francisco-based startup Digg has been in recent acquisition discussions with a number of companies, including News Corp., according to multiple sources close to the negotiations. However, the… Continue Reading
Last week I got an email from Maggie Stiefvater who had seen a photo I posted on flickr and wanted permission to use it as the basis for a painting. The photo, which is of a few pubs, including the… Continue Reading
Scoopt involved in ITV "user generated content" programme They want photos of any national (UK) or international story that was reported in the press during 2006. We already have members in over 90 countries so if you were witness to… Continue Reading
In past posts, I’ve written a lot about how journalists make use of blogs as a source of contacts, context and content. But how, I keep getting asked, can journalists – or anyone for that matter – go about finding… Continue Reading