I've been involved in helping CNNi, a client, organise a panel discussion on the role of mobile phones in news gathering, journalism and the consumption of news. The event, which has Journalism.co.uk as an online media partner, will take place… Continue Reading
I've been looking at the new design for the BBC News website and noticed, at the bottom of one of the pages, a hint that users will be able to integrate the site with their Facebook account. At the bottom… Continue Reading
In a couple of weeks I'll be giving a lecture at City University, where I'm a Visiting Journalism Fellow, on Entrepreneurial Journalism. My intention isn't to offer any answers, just point out some opportunities to a group of 100 MA… Continue Reading
The Daily Mirror has joined a growing number of newspapers who block a news aggregator, NewsNow, from crawling it's site. The Sun and Times Online had already made similar moves. Having worked in the media industry myself for nearly ten… Continue Reading
Just came across this interesting presentation, from October last year, by Neil Perkin, "Director of Marketing & Strategy for the commercial functions of IPC Media, the well known UK publisher of consumer magazines and associated websites": Content And Community View… Continue Reading
I came across this really clever use of twitter this morning as London got it's first snow flurries of the season. #uksnow Map 2.0 monitors twitter for mentions of snowfall, then plots the snow on a google map. To make… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift Blog last week where it got a lot of attention and some useful comments. It was also re-blogged on Social Media Today where it has now been read nearly 2500 times.] User generated… Continue Reading
[I originally posted this on the Headshift blog last Thursday] Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about finding, aggregating and curating content from third party sources, including blogs and social media services, comes word of the Twitter Times… Continue Reading
[Originally posted to the Headshift blog last Friday] Most owners of social software systems use the data generated through usage in their reporting of metrics. So, alongside the standard metrics such as unique users, page impressions, time spent, etc, social… Continue Reading
London is, suggests an article by the Telegraph's Emma Barnett, the social media capital of the World. Here's her evidence: 10% of traffic to Digg, the link recommendation service, comes from London London is the largest geographical network on Facebook… Continue Reading