BBC “drops Action Network”: time for a new campaigning model? “The closure … is in favour of a more news driven service which has a greater emphasis on aggregation of bottom-up content, including issue related blogs. BBC Action Network …changed… Continue Reading
Britain’s ’11 minutes a day’ Facebook habit – Times Online Britons spend an average of 5.8 hours a month on social networking sites — nearly twice that of any other European country (tags: MySpace bebo socialnetworking statistics socialmedia web2.0 facebook… Continue Reading
At the Networked Journalism Summit last week I was interviewed by NPR’s Bob Garfield. That interview, or at least about three seconds of it, appeared yesterday in On The Media. But don’t listen to hear me – you’ll learn a… Continue Reading
Tracking the Influence of Conversations and Social Media (tags: research statistics socialmedia socialsoftware web2.0)
In March 2007, Jay Rosen helped launch Assignment Zero, a networked journalism experiment that got a bit of help from Wired.com. He posted his review of that project last night on his blog PressThink and has just walked the audience… Continue Reading
Jeff Jarvis kicked off the Networked Journalism Summit by walking us through the hectic schedule of the day. The event should be well covered as there is free wifi and the Times Center Auditorium is a sea of bloggers feverishly… Continue Reading
Google: making big social media moves « Scobleizer Google has bought Jaiku. Shame – I quite liked Jaiku… (tags: google jaiku socialmedia socialnetworking microblogging acquisitions) Guardian’s Readers’ Editor on Ghost Written Blogs “the Guardian’s readers’ editor (read: ombudsman), examines the… Continue Reading
In my preparation for the Networked Journalism Summit tomorrow, I came across a thoughtful post by Jeff Jarvis who asks, "So if news is conversation, then the question is, how do we teach the conversation?" It’s a good question, and… Continue Reading
The Google Monster has swooped again, this time devouring Jaiku, a social networking / microblogging service that’s a bit like twitter with a nicer interface. You’ll be able to see for yourself once the initial interest dies off a bit… Continue Reading
I’m in New York City for the Networked Journalism Summit that’s been organised by Jeff Jarvis to bring together the best practices and practitioners in collaborative, pro-am journalism. I’m hoping to meet up with Neil McIntosh from the Guardian later… Continue Reading