I’ve long enjoyed reading the CommonCraft blog, an excellent source of information aimed primarily at online community builders. Their recent focus has been a series of short videos that explain potentially complex and confusing web tools into plain English. The… Continue Reading
House panel approves legal shield for bloggers | CNET News.com A congressional panel on Wednesday voted, against the Bush administration’s wishes, to shield journalists including advertising-supported bloggers from having to reveal their confidential sources in many situations. (tags: advertising law… Continue Reading
Good blogging from Nick Robinson who continues his difficult relationship with George Bush At the end of today’s briefing, the president looked at me, sweating in the swampy conditions, and said, “next time you should cover your bald head”. I… Continue Reading
Six Month Blogging Progress Review @ chrisg.com Yet another of those how to be a successful blogger blogs but this guy’s managed a technorati rank of 2000 ish and over 3000 RSS subs in just six months – that’s meteoric.… Continue Reading
NowPublic nixes takeover bids, lands $10m+ in financing NowPublic, which has an existing content-sharing arrangement with Associated Press, also announced that it is expanding that relationship. (tags: associatedpress nowpublic citizenjournalism citizensnappers usergeneratedcontent funding) Press Gazette – Guardian investigators share BAE… Continue Reading
A few days ago, I posted about BBC Berkshire’s google maps mash-up showing areas affected by flood warnings, the location of council emergency centres, places where BBC Radio Berkshire has reported from (called outside broadcasts or OB’s), videos of the… Continue Reading
Shane Richmond: What’s on your blogshelf Shane lists some of the most memorable blog posts from Journo blogs and asks the rest of us to do the same (tags: journalism journalisttraining bloggingtechniques shanerichmond dailytelegraph blogging links) 10 Things I’ve Learnt… Continue Reading
The BBC’s Ben Hammersley, who recently returned from Turkey where he was using various social media tools and blogging techniques to give greater depth and insight into his coverage of the Turkish Parliamentary elections, will be talking about the experiment… Continue Reading
BBC College of Journalism’s Kevin Marsh on CNN/YouTube video debates ‘Big media’s’ monopoly of communication in the democratic process is over. Good. But hopes for ‘citizen media’ need to be realistic; as does any assessment of the enduring merits of… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, I came across an ad for what would probably be the dream job for a reader of this blog. I thought I’d lost the details but yesterday found the ad in my wallet. You’ve still got… Continue Reading