A few weeks ago, John Thompson, the publisher of Journalism.co.uk (and a nice bloke) emailed to let me know that this blog would be included in a mash-up of journalism blogs he was creating using Yahoo Pipes. For those who… Continue Reading
Community Is Key to Participation in Citizen Media “When I asked you what would motivate you to submit stories, photos or video to a particular citizen media site, your answers followed one theme: give us community, give us a sense… Continue Reading
BBC Manchester’s Richard Fair and myself will be giving a presentation at the Multimedia Meets Radio conference (pdf) organised by the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Switzerland on the 29th and 30th of March. We’ll be talking about the BBC… Continue Reading
Toronto based fashion and shopping blog I want – I got picks up on a rather strange advertising campaign for Calvin Klein’s new in2u scent. “We have envisioned this as the first fragrance for the technosexual generation,” said Mr. Murry,… Continue Reading
For months I’ve been proactively trying to cut down on the number of RSS feeds I’m subscribed to because, these days, I rarely get a chance to check more than a dozen of them each day anyway. There’s something about… Continue Reading
Blog Consultant Explains why she tells clients to avoid Movable Type Suw Charman doesn’t much like movable type and spends a post countering a recent marketing email she got from Six Apart the vendors behind MT (tags: mov movabletype sixapart… Continue Reading
Google takes more ad revenue in UK than anyone but ITV Google now makes more in advertising revenue in the UK than everyone besides ITV, which it could catch soon… (link thanks to Virtual Economics) (tags: google googleads advertising search… Continue Reading
Kristine Lowe does a good round up of thoughts on proposed French “anti citizen journalism” law (tags: freespeech citizenjournalism usergeneratedcontent france law internetlaw journalism) Why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online? Uses the bloglines subscription numbers for… Continue Reading
The recent controversy over premium rate phone in votes to television programmes in the UK not being tallied properly underlines the point that audiences will eventually question, then turn against, participation for participation’s sake. The programmes in question, where audience… Continue Reading
Guardian to plow £15 million into their websites over next 18 months Expect lots of web 2.0 goodness and forays into video (tags: web2.0 newspaperwebsites newspaperbusiness guardian innovation news2.0) Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement News Organizations Forge New Relationships… Continue Reading