Even Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s Director of New Media and Technology, is a citizen journalist now – I spotted his photo of the queues at Heathrow in a BBC News Online gallery today (click through to the third photo).
Barb Palser suggests, in an article for the American Journalism Review, that "news sites should make better use of the material provided by YouTube and other Internet resources". Her main point is that news and media organisations don’t need to… Continue Reading
Almost since the day the current conflict involving Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon began, people have been writing that it’s likely to be the most blogged about war. The mainstream media was, I think, initially surprised by the amount of quality coverage being provided… Continue Reading
Last week, the Bivings Report released an analysis of the Top 100 newspapers in America and their use of the web. Others have since done the same analysis on the top newspaper sites in other countries, including Brazil, Denmark and… Continue Reading
As some readers will know, in addition to working full-time I’ve also been working on a part-time law degree ("PgDip CPE Law") at the University of Hertfordshire for the past two years and I’m presently one equity and trusts exam… Continue Reading
When Gina Ford instructed her solicitors to send a letter to the ISP hosting mumsnet, threatening to sue them for libel if they didn’t cease hosting the community site for moms and expectant moms, she probably had no idea how… Continue Reading
Technorati’s Dave Sifry has issued his State of the Blogosphere for August 2006. It’s the usual story of the number of blogs growing at an incredible pace – a new one every two seconds (about 8% of those are spam… Continue Reading
Mumsnet is a site offering advice to expectant parents, support for those suffering bereavement following miscarriage, answers to obscure pregnancy questions, pushchair reviews and much much more. Sadly, it’s also a site that could find itself closed following legal threats… Continue Reading
Some of the more old school mainstream media types spend a lot of time worrying about the "blogger lynchmob" and if they keep making mistakes like this one, they’ve got every reason to be. The photo at left, taken by… Continue Reading
According to multiple sources, AOL is planning to make around 5000 employees – half a quarter of it’s workforce – redundant (that’s "laid-off" in American). I can’t say I’m really surprised. AOL, which reportedly once had 30 million subscribers but… Continue Reading