Blogging
If my last post was a bit gloomy, as Ashok was quick to point out, then this solution to current and future media job culls is anything but: Sixapart, the company behind blog platforms Movable Type and Typepad (which this blog is hosted on), has created its own Typepad Journalist
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I was pleased to read this weekend that a Malaysian court had not only ordered blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, whose arrest I blogged about here, freed, but also ruled that the country's government had acted beyond its authority in invoking a threat to national security. The New York
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.
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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=
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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
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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
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
Blogging
Here's your chance to hear Eirik Solheim, one of the new media gurus at The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), talk about NRKs blogging efforts, media transparency and how to engage readers in the new media reality. I might be promising a bit too much here as this is
Blogging
Blogger and editor Raja Petra “RPK” Kamarudin is to be held in detention for two years under the country's draconian Internal security act (ISA). Petra, 58, has been held in Kuala Lumpur since 12 September under article 73 of the same law. He is charged with sewing confusion