On Sunday, I’m heading to Ghent to take part in Blog Boat 1.0 – Citizen Journalism. As the name suggests, it’s an event about blogging and journalism which will take place on a boat but, rest assured, the organisers tell… Continue Reading
The Press Gazette picked up on my recent post where I quoted research suggesting that bloggers earn more (£21k) than journalists but significantly less than holders of Bachelors degress (£29.6k). In response, Guido Fawkes, the most high profile political blogger… Continue Reading
My interview with Howard Rheingold appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs last night. You can listen to it online. The programme is here and the interview, which lasts about 10 minutes, starts at 26:30. (While listening, do… Continue Reading
For some reason, my del.icio.us is absolutely overflowing with "bloggers vs mainstream media" links: Niel McIntosh at CompleteTosh thought he had almost recovered from the debate which, not long ago, made him contemplate chewing his arm off in frustration. Then… Continue Reading
Georgina Henry, editor of the Guardian’s Comment is Free, writes in today’s print edition about getting out there and engaging with the audience: “On good days I think this is the most exciting new frontier for journalism – the immediacy… Continue Reading
We media fringe event Originally uploaded by cubicgarden. It’s been a few weeks and I forgot (which is somewhat typical of me) to pass on the stats for the wemedia fringe. * We had 150 on the guest list and… Continue Reading
With the potential to start earning as much as $5 (£2.68 / EU 3.92) per article TODAY, I bet they’ll have queues of "citizen reporters" waiting to sign up for their Out2 Press Pass. Now we can all be like… Continue Reading
I’m tired of talking about the we media forum already. I guess the idea of the event was to bring together two spheres that need and feed off each other so that they could argue about who was going to… Continue Reading
I’ll continually update this page with links to stuff created by people who attended and/or covered the we media fringe. Let me know if you’ve published something: robin at cybersoc dot com Photos: "wemediafringe" is the #2 tag#1 tag of… Continue Reading
Well, we did it. We managed to hold an interesting, well attended, productive and provocative fringe event alongside the We Media Forum. I hope, and think, that it was much more than just a social event for the conference –… Continue Reading