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
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
The Bivings Report yesterday published the results of their study into ‘The Use of the Internet by America’s Newspapers’. They looked at the websites of the top 100 American newspapers (based on print circulation) and "evaluated them based on their… Continue Reading
Dr. Nora Barnes, Director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has recently published a paper about blogging based on interviews with 74 "authors and managers of blogs". Behind the Scenes in the Blogosphere: Advice… Continue Reading
The good people at CyberJournalist have been mining the Pew Internet and American Life project’s newest research findings. There’s little point in my stealing their thunder since they’ve done a good job of pulling out some tantalising tid-bits and have… Continue Reading
Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending much of the afternoon and evening in the company of Nancy White. She stopped by the BBC for an informal chat with a wide range of BBC people involved in building and managing… Continue Reading
A helpful email I just received from Martin Stabe at the Press Gazette points out that the "new" research I blogged about in the previous post was actually itself more than 36 hours old. Martin, by the way, blogged along… Continue Reading
NPR reports that "Physicists at the University of Notre Dame and in Hungary have figured out that the prime of life for a Web news story is the first 36 hours. After that, few people read it. The physicists say… Continue Reading
The current review of the BBC’s charter is set to end later this year, with a funding settlement following in March 2007. The BBC was created by a royal charter and is funded through a TV license fee, currently £131.50… Continue Reading
Jeff Jarvis has posted about “networked journalism” – his replacement for “citizen journalism”. Jeff says: “Networked journalism” takes into account the collaborative nature of journalism now: professionals and amateurs working together to get the real story, linking to each other… Continue Reading