Media
In his post on how Local news is changing - but not fast enough, Paul Bradshaw effectively and poignantly pinpoints what mainstream media is struggling to catch up with. To me, the quote below, is the perefect illustration that this is not new media - to my my mind, new
Ukategorisert
Here's two excellent and through-provoking arguments on how social media changes the rules of engagement (yes, I know, I talk about this again and again, but this touches on another aspect of it). "It's a Transparent Society, So Get Naked", says Ben Casnocha, arguing
Pictures
I'm not going to stay awake to watch this wonder tonight, nor do I currently have the photo equipment to do it justice if I had, but here's a great composition of the phases of a Total Lunar Eclipse from Fort Ephemara's Flickr-stream (published
Media
It seems we have a new measure for media bias: Did someone just remove the Twingly link to the blog post in which you commented on one of the news site's articles? In the old days we spoke of all those issues that simply fell off the agenda,
Journalism
Now, here's a big, heavy question to grapple with early a Saturday morning (at least it's early to me, Saturdays are just about the only day of the week I don't get up at the break of dawn or earlier): As we examine what
Blogging
It's been months since I revisited the value of linking out, so it was great to stumble across this post by Publishing 2.0 (via Martin Stabe), which contained too many eloquent lines on the power of the hyperlink to include them all on del.icio.us. My
Blogging
On Tuesday this week, Politiken.dk, the news site of one of Denmark's leading newspapers, started using Twingly to show blog links to the sites' articles (I covered the news here, in Norwegian. More about Politiken's reasons for doing so here, in Danish). As it
Media
Yesterday, Bonnier's announcement of its full-year results for 2007, earnings had improved by roughly £7,6m (9bn SEK) to roughly £24,5m (29bn SEK), was so brief that journalists complained about the lack of more numbers. But the full-year results were soon forgotten when one of the media
Libel
The peculiar case of the Icelandic bank who brought a libel suit against a Danish tabloid in London was finally settled today. Icelandic bank Kaupthing said in a press release that Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet had agreed to pay the bank "very substantial damages", and cover "reasonable
Free speech
Today several Danish newspapers carry pictures of a controversial Mohammed cartoon, depicting the prophet as a suicide bomber, in sympathy with cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Many editors were shocked when a plot to murder Westergaard, for drawing caricatures satirising Mohammed, was unveiled yesterday. Editors at Politiken and Berlingske Tidende - along
Media
From a comment thread on Steven Smith's News is a Conversation blog: USA Today: WE'RE DEAD. Wall Street Journal: Dow Jones Plummets as World Ends National Enquirer: Britney Parties While Millions Die Rolling Stone: The Grateful Dead Reunion Tour Sports Illustrated: Game Over Playboy: Girls of
Citizen journalism
Some see it as cheap or free labour lowering the standards of journalism; others as a vital tool to reengage a disengaged audience, levelling the playing field in the process. Citizen journalism may have been a bit off the mainstream radar in Norway's online media town in 2007.