Blogging
If you've followed this blog for a while you will have heard me muse on many of these issues before, but these are my notes, in a more coherent form than I had them jotted down, for the talk I gave on Saturday, which was just to set
Blogging
I'm so happy to see so many find their way to #socialweb so early a Saturday morning (see previous post for twitter feed). Using Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 tools for investigative and in-depth research Colin Meek: Web 2.0 tools fantastic tools for journalists to
Blogging
Follow the tweets from our bilingual seminar in Oslo on using the social web here: Update 28 October 2018: This mash-up was powered by Twemes, a service apparently long defunct by now - hence the now missing tweets. https://twemes.com/socialweb.json?variable=tweme_data&count=10https://twemes.
Blogging
Can social media play a role in a time of life crisis? The answer is a resounding yes, says blogger who abruptly lost his 35-year-old wife and was comforted by the massive show of support from Twitter- and Facebook friends. I've been meaning to blog about this issue
Blogging
Here's a great video clip from a conference I wish I'd found the time and opportunity to attend this week, the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2039518&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=
Blogging
No, I'm not leading up to rant, rather I'm going to invite bloggers, journalists - and everyone interested - to share in whatever competitive advantage I get from tapping into the social webBetter still, I've put together a seminar on using the social web
Blogging
So it's official: blogging does change journalists. It takes these swaggering, macho creatures, unencumbered by community ties, political or moral persuasions, friendships or other obligations and affiliations which might compromise a journalist's independence, and makes them... eh... ...human... This might of course be taken as evidence
Current Affairs
"Newspapers have already lost one of their key selling points: Social currency. In 2008, all meaningful political discourse — the essential element of social currency — takes place on the Web." Dan at Xark in "10 reasons why newspapers won't reinvent news", via Mindy McAdams, who
Freesheets
Baugur-backed Frettabladid is to merge with Posthusid Arvakri, the company responsible for Morgunbladid, it emerged this weekend. "Under the deal, Frettabladid (see Wikipedia for proper Icelandic spelling) will become the freely distributed sister paper of Morgunbladid, and 24 Stundir (the current holder of that title) will be merged into
Media
It seems Schibsted is not one to put its money on a quick economic recovery, at least not if we're to judge from the announcement the media company made this week recommendending the IPO of Media Norge is postponed. It should take place within seven years after the
Current Affairs
As a blogger and journalist I must admit, as I've mentioned before, I fluctuate between Attention Deficit Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Order (to use Arianna Huffington's brilliant description of the two), and the scat... butterfly mind of the latter can't quite pinpoint when I
Blogging
Last year, I put together a team of bloggers who live blogged the Norwegian Editor's Association's Spring Conference. But after the event, the blog we set up for the Association, www.redaktorene.no (translates as editors.no) was largely abandoned - a fact I bemoaned when