Reuters recent investment of USD $7 million in blog syndication service Pluck is already bearing fruit, with the launch of “related postings” from blogs appearing alongside (actually at the bottom of) Reuters own Health, Technology and Entertainment content. Dean Wright,… Continue Reading
In a recent interview, Martin Fewell, the assistant editor of Channel 4 News, told Journalism.co.uk’s Oliver Luft that: Blogs by journalistic organisations are an opportunity to add value to our core products, television news. We gather a lot more information… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago Andrew Grant-Adamson, who teaches journalism at the University of Westminster, kicked off an interesting debate when he asked “What’s the Purpose of Newspaper Blogs?“. That debate drew comment from The Guardian’s Neil Mcintosh, The Telegraph’s… Continue Reading
In Saturday’s Weekend supplement, The Guardian’s John Lanchester tried to get to grips with “web 2.0” and met with some of it’s movers and shakers. Some of those interviews have been published as podcasts but, sadly, there isn’t a full… Continue Reading
Blog stats aren’t, of course, everything. Although I use statcounter on cybersoc.com, I’m a lot more interested in seeing where people came from, and where they go once they’re here, than I am in knowing the shere numbers of visitors.… Continue Reading
Roland Piquepaille who authors the blogs technology trends and blogging for companies, as well as posting to the zdnet emerging technology trends blog and smartmobs, has published his top five guidelines for writing blog posts: Choose an interesting subject Find… Continue Reading
The American mid-term elections are today (Tuesday 07 Nov) and lots of bloggers – and I’m not just talking about the BBC, Daily Kos and Instapundit – are likely to be providing coverage of the elections, last minute campaigning and… Continue Reading
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll probably have noticed that I’ve recently been auto-publishing my del.icio.us links. Lots of other sites do this and I’ve often found good tid-bits of information through links posts. I try to… Continue Reading
London’s annual podcasting conference, PodcastConUk, will take place on Saturday 18 November. In preparation, Citizen Scoop has published podcasts with Chris Vallance (BBC) and Neil McIntosh (The Guardian) who will be participating in the panel on Podcasting & The Citizen… Continue Reading
Facebook, the #2 social networking website in the US, has announced a new product called “share“. The feature allows facebook users, predominately American university students, to collect content from partner websites and publish it on their profile pages. Initial partners… Continue Reading