Google steps up investment in radio industry A few days ago they announced they’d sell newspaper ads, now Google says Its efforts in radio advertising could grow to include 1,000 employees–and not just in ad sales. (tags: googleadsense google googleads… Continue Reading
Le Web – Les Blogs Originally uploaded by robinhamman. I’m going to Le Web 3, the Third Les Blogs Conference, in Paris on the 11th and 12th of December. Programme here. If anyone else is planning on going and wants… Continue Reading
Reporters Without Borders publishes list of 13 countries that are “enemies of the internet” Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam all make it onto the list (tags: freespeech censorship internetlaw… Continue Reading
In Saturday’s Weekend supplement, The Guardian’s John Lanchester tried to get to grips with “web 2.0” and met with some of it’s movers and shakers. Some of those interviews have been published as podcasts but, sadly, there isn’t a full… Continue Reading
Rethinking Objectivity (Columbia Journalism Review) (tags: journalismtraining journalisttraining Journalism newsbusiness objectivity) BBC School of Journalism reckons comment in the papers is dead Blogs on the really contentious stuff are already better written, more timely, more authentic, more argumentative, more partial… Continue Reading
Blog stats aren’t, of course, everything. Although I use statcounter on cybersoc.com, I’m a lot more interested in seeing where people came from, and where they go once they’re here, than I am in knowing the shere numbers of visitors.… Continue Reading
Roland Piquepaille who authors the blogs technology trends and blogging for companies, as well as posting to the zdnet emerging technology trends blog and smartmobs, has published his top five guidelines for writing blog posts: Choose an interesting subject Find… Continue Reading
The American mid-term elections are today (Tuesday 07 Nov) and lots of bloggers – and I’m not just talking about the BBC, Daily Kos and Instapundit – are likely to be providing coverage of the elections, last minute campaigning and… Continue Reading
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll probably have noticed that I’ve recently been auto-publishing my del.icio.us links. Lots of other sites do this and I’ve often found good tid-bits of information through links posts. I try to… Continue Reading
Gannett Newspapers to “crowdsource news” (tags: participatorymedia citizenjournalism citizenmedia usergeneratedcontent smartmob newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites) Gannett Newspapers to launch “information centers” It’s not just a newspaper anymore says the Des Moines Register… (tags: Journalism newspapers news2.0 newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites participatorymedia citizenjournalism networkedjournalism networkmedia)… Continue Reading