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I came across two posts today that brilliantly spell out how web 2.0 is a blessing for journalists Of course, those of you who've spent a lot of time using social media might be familiar with a lot of this, but the posts summarise the headlines of
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Adam Tinworth, the blogging supremo of Reed Business Information (RBI) England, reports how Flightblogger, one of RBIs bloggers, broke the Obama running mate story. This ties in nicely with that quote I let hang in the air Monday on how beat bloggers pose a serious threat to the newspaper industry
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Yes, it's that kind of day: just recovering from what felt like a flu on Saturday, which today is more like a really nasty cold, and trying to catch up with work as well as all the writing I planned to do over the weekend I mostly spent
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I know I write a lot about the wonders of the web, but it does of course have its pitfalls as well, and here's one of the best parodies of web evangelism I've come across in a while. Now, even though I read the Cluetrain earlyish
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Sunday Herald has a really interesting piece on how some of Scotland's leading journalists are coping with reader comments, which makes for interesting and revealing reading (via Martin Stabe). Most can't abide or be bothered with them for more or less obvious reasons; it's
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This is one of the key questions in a survey two master students are conducting for a thesis on blogs and trust (you can find a link to it here, in Norwegian). Trouble is, it’s a bit like asking “Do you trust people who talk?” or “Do you trust
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If you only read one blog post today, make it Adam's musings on why media gets community wrong, I think he's spot on here: ...most media people don't realise that blogging is a community strategy. They think of it as a publishing process and,
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This graph from The World of Information Access' 2008 report (via Sambrook), speaks volumes (click on the image for a full size version). More on the report from BBC here.
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I was struck by this sentiment from a British newspaper executive that Adrian reported under Chatham Rules a while back: This person had "no interest in UK blog content... didn’t rate UK blogosphere - UK newspapers have already occupied that opinion territory and run the best blogs."
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I was going to say that if how journalists and bloggers treat information is anything to go by, I'd much rather marry a blogger than a journalist. Because in this respect, journalists are conditioned to be the worst control-freaks imaginable: the kind of person who'd lock
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The sentiment belongs to the Lebanese artist Zena el-Kahlil. During a seminar on how free the internet really is earlier this month, she spoke for the first about what happened during the July Warin Beirut in the summer of 2006 That summer she penned Beirut Update, a blog that became
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Just as I was putting together that post on Blondinbella and product placement, I came across Natalie's wonderful Blogging 101 for Publicists: an excellent tutorial in blogger relations for PRs from my favourite mixologist (who as far as I know blog for ... eh.. love and public spirit) I