I’m often astonished to come across – still – the occasional journalist or editor who thinks that linking out from a news story or other page to third party content is counterproductive because, in their minds, it simply sends traffic… Continue Reading
According to BBC News, buyers and sellers on ebay will no longer, from May, be able to leave neutral or negative feedback. EBay claims that negative comments were slowing down trade and leading to other problems because those given negative… Continue Reading
I’ve been invited to do an hour long session on blogging and social media – paying particular attention to turning existing processes into content and integrating blogs into programmes – at the DNA 2008 conference in Brussels, 3-4 March 2008.… Continue Reading
Flickr has recently released a feature allowing users to see the usage statistics for their photos. It took a couple of days from when I signed up for the system to churn out my stats but it was well worth… Continue Reading
posh wash Originally uploaded by robinhamman For a long time I’ve been using my cameraphone to take and upload photos, via zonetag or shozu, to flickr where I’m just days away from posting my 2000th photo. Many of… Continue Reading
I’m a long term, and fairly heavy, user of the photo-sharing site flickr although, over time, my usage of the site has changed from being a place where I primarily shared my best and most interesting photos to one where… Continue Reading
One of the bigger stories today in the blogosphere is that Robert Scoble has had his facebook account blocked after running a script to scrape the data out of his account so that he could take it, and one assumes… Continue Reading
At last October’s Networked Journalism Summit, organised by Jeff Jarvis, I had the pleasure of meeting Micah Sifry of the Personal Democracy Forum which is described on their website as a "hub for the conversation already underway between political practitioners… Continue Reading
Every so often I come across a tool that will be useful for journalists and others looking for first hand accounts and viewpoints on breaking news stories. Today I came across David Sterry’s Tweet Scan which allows you to search… Continue Reading
bbc advertises job on facebook Originally uploaded by robinhamman This morning I noticed a BBC job listed within Facebook’s Marketplace. I don’t know if doing this was the idea of an individual or if it’s a new strategy… Continue Reading