‘Mid West Mafia’ and the Readers’ Revolution Finally, I’ve made it onto youtube… (tags: youtube journalism journalisttraining bbcblogs) Swedish Internet Libel Cases Increase Dramatically in Number The number of people making libel claims against those writing and/or publishing comments, discusisons… Continue Reading
Scoopt is after your Flickr photos – just tag ’em Taking a leaf from the BBC Manchester blog and other projects where users are told not to submit content, but to tag it, Scoopt wants your flickr photos… it just… Continue Reading
Jarvis blogs re: BBC Manchester Blogging Workshops (tags: bbcblogs bbcmanchesterblog bbcblog blogging bloggingtechniques jeffjarvis) The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist (Dan Gillmor) Nice historical piece that suggests “The pros have a problem. They can’t possibly compete in the media-sphere of… Continue Reading
RSS – the newspapers revenge? (Mark Cuban via Martin Stabe) “In the last couple days, I have read, or had people in the newspaper industry email saying that their papers were going to extend their newsgathering to all platforms. Rather… Continue Reading
Should Bloggers Boycott Technorati? Bivings explores the issued raised by Technorati’s deal with Edelman (tags: edelman astroturfing bivings technorati transparency trust activism) Ewan McIntosh Presentation: just because you can blog in one click, doesn’t mean you should He makes seven… Continue Reading
Richard wonders if he’ll start glowing after flying on contaminated plane He feels it’s “slightly disconcerting to find I was a passenger on one of the radioactive contaminated BA planes” identified by detectives looking into the “mysterious death” of ex-KGB… Continue Reading
With Christmas just four weeks and a bit away, I reckon at least a few of you will be buying presents for your family and friends online. Doing so using the links below can help you help me pay my… Continue Reading
Under the hood of the Guardian’s new travel site It’s all about tagging, categorisation, RSS and user friendlyness (tags: guardian tagging SocialSoftware newspaperwebsites web2.0 recommendation) Do journalists need to become “community interaction coordinators”? 52% of producers working on established news… Continue Reading
BBC Good Food Magazine – you cook it, then submit it to our flickr group Graham from Noodlepie points out how BBC Worldwide is using flickr groups to bring a sense of shared experience, and community, to it’s magazines. Nicely… Continue Reading