Scoopt, the “citizen journalist photo agency”, has launched ScooptWords, a service that will help bloggers sell their content. “We strongly believe that many bloggers produce content as good as or better than what already appears in newspapers and magazines. But… Continue Reading
From tonight’s RSS feeds: The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public. A deal with a South Korean news website, OhmyNews International, could see so-called… Continue Reading
According to the Guardian (01 June p. 12), more than two thirds of people don’t take part in any “community activity” and over half say they “would never even pass the time of day with a stranger in a local… Continue Reading
A while back I had a visit at work from Greg, Doug and Major – three students from the New Media Program at the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. They’d come to London in the hopes of… Continue Reading
I was looking at inbound links this evening and came across one originating behind the firewall of a company called NetVocates which is a "blog intelligence and advocacy service". The website blurb says, reasonably enough: "…blogs frequently impact an organization… Continue Reading
The Web 2.0 Group has created a comprehensive, some would say almost sickenly obsessive, list of “web 2.0” sites and services. Almost every day they add a few which makes it a bit hard to follow which is where this… Continue Reading
mapping flickrs growth Originally uploaded by lynetter. Lynette Webb has used various publicly available statistics to map flickr’s growth [see image]. She’s requested help finding more stats to fill in the already interesting picture and I know that a few… Continue Reading
News International has permanent, full-time jobs for overnight content moderators / discussion hosts. The jobs, advertised here, are office based in London and pay is £17-23k. It looks like whatever News Corp’s new thing (it’s not a myspace job although… Continue Reading
I knew that a lot of people were meeting on internet dating sites but, in all honesty, I had no idea exactly how huge the numbers have become. EHarmony, but one of the main US dating sites, reckons that “over… Continue Reading
Georgina Henry, editor of the Guardian’s Comment is Free, writes in today’s print edition about getting out there and engaging with the audience: “On good days I think this is the most exciting new frontier for journalism – the immediacy… Continue Reading