Press Gazette Closes it’s doors (a nice Obit by Neil McIntosh) The press gazette has closed it’s doors. Shame someone has figured out a way to keep the website, which had many more readers than the print title, up and… Continue Reading
ABC News teams up with Now Public to provide “citizen journalism” Everybody is else doing it, so why shouldn’t they… (via Pods and Blogs) (tags: ABC news2.0 blogs blogging citizenjournalism citizensnappers networkedjournalism networkjournalism) Newscounter an alternative to ‘ineffective’ Press Complaints… Continue Reading
NewspaperRX: What would you do if you ran a newspaper? A good 10-point prescription for ailing newspapers… or any content led product (tags: newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites news2.0 local hyperlocal journalismtraining journalism) ‘Social network’ for newspapers to launch next month (via journalism.co.uk)… Continue Reading
BBC’s Today Programme uses it’s blog to explain changes to it’s message board community A good example of how a corporate blog can make it easier to engage with audiences, even if they are disgruntled ones (tags: bbc bbcblogs onlinecommunitymanagement… Continue Reading
Two very different views of future for newspapers: from the Observer and the Independent (tags: independent guardian newspapers newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites news2.0) Is myspace the next marketing frontier for magazines? Dozens of magazines have set up profiles on myspace in an… Continue Reading
My blogs got me a job at BBC Originally uploaded by robinhamman. No, not me. I already had a job at the BBC before I had a blog. The London freesheet Metro carried a short snippet on Friday the 17th… Continue Reading
Biving’s take on the ‘What is the Value of Newspaper Blogs?’ debate Includes a link to Malcolm Gladwell and suggests he has a model for blogging where page impressions and unique users aren’t the only measurements of success (tags: bivings… Continue Reading
Like most bloggers, I use technorati to keep track of the cross-blog conversations I’m part of. I’ve always found it a really useful tool and even once wrote a post with 8 suggestions on how to improve technorati. Recently, however,… Continue Reading
Sun man says local broadcasters fail to embrace communities and give them a forum As opposed, of course, to the Sun which kicks off all sorts of wholesome debates about topics ranging from the breast sizes of various glamour models,… Continue Reading
Visualising Crowds Using Tag Maps The good people at Yahoo research have posted the slides for a presentation about using flickr tags to visualise crowds – Stanley Milgram would be proud (tags: crowds flickr tags tagging maps mashup research yahoo)… Continue Reading