A Canadian court case [R. v. LeBlanc, 2006 NBPC 37 (CanLII)] appears to have created two important legal precedents: that blogging can be an occupation and that bloggers are reporters (and have the same responsibility to follow the law as… Continue Reading
‘Mid West Mafia’ and the Readers’ Revolution Finally, I’ve made it onto youtube… (tags: youtube journalism journalisttraining bbcblogs) Swedish Internet Libel Cases Increase Dramatically in Number The number of people making libel claims against those writing and/or publishing comments, discusisons… Continue Reading
Manchester City Council is consulting the public about a bid they hope to make for Government funding to build Europe’s largest wifi hotspot – a whopping 400 square miles worth of wire free internet access. Sounds great to me but… Continue Reading
Scoopt is after your Flickr photos – just tag ’em Taking a leaf from the BBC Manchester blog and other projects where users are told not to submit content, but to tag it, Scoopt wants your flickr photos… it just… Continue Reading
Jarvis blogs re: BBC Manchester Blogging Workshops (tags: bbcblogs bbcmanchesterblog bbcblog blogging bloggingtechniques jeffjarvis) The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist (Dan Gillmor) Nice historical piece that suggests “The pros have a problem. They can’t possibly compete in the media-sphere of… Continue Reading
Back in February I found myself wondering outloud when flickr would position itself as a photo agency. Today the NY Times reports (Thanks Joe!) that Yahoo and Reuters have joined forces to launch a new “citizen journalism” service tomorrow, with… Continue Reading
RSS – the newspapers revenge? (Mark Cuban via Martin Stabe) “In the last couple days, I have read, or had people in the newspaper industry email saying that their papers were going to extend their newsgathering to all platforms. Rather… Continue Reading
Should Bloggers Boycott Technorati? Bivings explores the issued raised by Technorati’s deal with Edelman (tags: edelman astroturfing bivings technorati transparency trust activism) Ewan McIntosh Presentation: just because you can blog in one click, doesn’t mean you should He makes seven… Continue Reading
I was just updating this blog, which is hosted on typepad, when I came across a promotion for blogblurb. It’s a new service that takes the contents of your typepad blog and turns them into a book. The first 250… Continue Reading