Journalism.co.uk is hosting the Readers’ Revolution panel discussion on Monday, 04 December, at Imperial College, London. The panelists are: * Kevin Anderson, who recently left the BBC to become Blogs Editor at The Guardian. He’s been an online journalist since… Continue Reading
The audio interviews I did at the Manchester Blog Awards last week are going to be broadcast on BBC 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs tonight between 2-3am British Summer Time. Technically speaking, that’s really really early Tuesday morning. [Update: the… Continue Reading
This evening I went along to the Manchester Blog Awards. [update: ickleweb has a photo of me live blogging ] If you happen to be awake and conscious at 2 am British Summer Time (9pm EST) you can listen to… Continue Reading
You know those times when you read a blog post and realise in the first paragraph, or maybe a bit further along, that the author has really missed or misinterpreted a basic point along the way? I’m not, I promise,… Continue Reading
It wasn’t quite the point I was trying to make when I posted yesterday about Guido scoffing at the idea of getting out of bed for £21,000, reportedly the average being offered for professional bloggers as based on a large… Continue Reading
It’s a rare day when I embed a youtube video into a post here but this one, from the dailyshow, discusses CNN’s citizen journalism project (which is more about gathering audience contributed images and video rather than proper “citizen journalism”)… Continue Reading
The Press Gazette picked up on my recent post where I quoted research suggesting that bloggers earn more (£21k) than journalists but significantly less than holders of Bachelors degress (£29.6k). In response, Guido Fawkes, the most high profile political blogger… Continue Reading
According to a new salary search tool, people employed to blog can now earn more than journalists. I figured that the research was based on one or two job ads for bloggers compared to thousands of jobs for bloggers but… Continue Reading
I’ve just come across popurls, an aggregator of – what else – aggregators and social bookmarking sites. So you get the most popular items on digg, del.icio.us, reddit, newsvine, metafilter, tailrank, google news, yahoo news, netscape, shoutwire, slashdot, wired, fark,… Continue Reading
Yesterday’s New York Times carried a front page article about the evidence that has been compiled on the "London terror plot" suspects. Anyone trying to view the article from a UK IP address is redirected to the page at left… Continue Reading