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16 Ways The News Media Can Use Blogs » The Bivings Report Bivings has some good ideas about how to make good use of blogs. (tags: bivings news2.0 newspaperblogs newspaperwebsites blogs bloggingtechniques blogging)

How to use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and filter RSS feeds John Thompson, publisher of journalism.co.uk told me he was working on this soon after he did the journalism blogs mash-up for his site. Finally, it’s arrived. Useful stuff. (tags:… Continue Reading →

Community Is Key to Participation in Citizen Media “When I asked you what would motivate you to submit stories, photos or video to a particular citizen media site, your answers followed one theme: give us community, give us a sense… Continue Reading →

Blog Consultant Explains why she tells clients to avoid Movable Type Suw Charman doesn’t much like movable type and spends a post countering a recent marketing email she got from Six Apart the vendors behind MT (tags: mov movabletype sixapart… Continue Reading →

Google takes more ad revenue in UK than anyone but ITV Google now makes more in advertising revenue in the UK than everyone besides ITV, which it could catch soon… (link thanks to Virtual Economics) (tags: google googleads advertising search… Continue Reading →

Kristine Lowe does a good round up of thoughts on proposed French “anti citizen journalism” law (tags: freespeech citizenjournalism usergeneratedcontent france law internetlaw journalism) Why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online? Uses the bloglines subscription numbers for… Continue Reading →

Guardian to plow £15 million into their websites over next 18 months Expect lots of web 2.0 goodness and forays into video (tags: web2.0 newspaperwebsites newspaperbusiness guardian innovation news2.0) Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement News Organizations Forge New Relationships… Continue Reading →

Bush Administration wants anyone offering community or publishing platform to keep records “The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the… Continue Reading →

Interview with Rob Curley: vice president of product dev for Washingtonpost/Newsweek Interactive Includes a good bullet point list of what news orgs need to do to adapt to the online world (tags: journalism journalisttraining news2.0 washingtonpost newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites) A charity… Continue Reading →

WashingtonPost: Police Turn to YouTube to Catch Suspects Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department used YouTube to post a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot… (tags: washingtonpost youtube crime… Continue Reading →