As previously mentioned here, I’m taking part in a Readers’ Revolution panel discussion, organised by Journalism.co.uk, and taking place on Monday, 04 December, at Imperial College, London. Tickets for the event ran dry almost as soon as it was announced… Continue Reading
The first BBC Manchester Blogging Workshop, part of the BBC Manchester Blog Project, will take place on 6pm on Thursday the 18th of January, 2007. This free two hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about blogging… Continue Reading
Under the hood of the Guardian’s new travel site It’s all about tagging, categorisation, RSS and user friendlyness (tags: guardian tagging SocialSoftware newspaperwebsites web2.0 recommendation) Do journalists need to become “community interaction coordinators”? 52% of producers working on established news… Continue Reading
If a dispute between The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia and the publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News isn’t settled by midnight tonight, the union has announced that instead of simply manning picket lines, members will immediately… Continue Reading
BBC Good Food Magazine – you cook it, then submit it to our flickr group Graham from Noodlepie points out how BBC Worldwide is using flickr groups to bring a sense of shared experience, and community, to it’s magazines. Nicely… Continue Reading
A few months ago I went on holiday and left my blog at home. This presented a dilemma for me and I sought, and received, advice from a number of regular readers. I’m not, of course, the first blogger to… Continue Reading
Press Gazette Closes it’s doors (a nice Obit by Neil McIntosh) The press gazette has closed it’s doors. Shame someone has figured out a way to keep the website, which had many more readers than the print title, up and… Continue Reading
ABC News teams up with Now Public to provide “citizen journalism” Everybody is else doing it, so why shouldn’t they… (via Pods and Blogs) (tags: ABC news2.0 blogs blogging citizenjournalism citizensnappers networkedjournalism networkjournalism) Newscounter an alternative to ‘ineffective’ Press Complaints… Continue Reading
When audience members take content from mainstream media organisations and post it elsewhere, for example a video clip of a program posted on YouTube, they aren’t (leaving aside for the moment that they’re fairly obviously breaking copyright laws) doing something… Continue Reading
NewspaperRX: What would you do if you ran a newspaper? A good 10-point prescription for ailing newspapers… or any content led product (tags: newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites news2.0 local hyperlocal journalismtraining journalism) ‘Social network’ for newspapers to launch next month (via journalism.co.uk)… Continue Reading