Epistemology
Food for thought on a Sunday
"Oh, I don't read HER. It's not that I don't like her, it's just that she makes me think too much," a journalist friend told me back when I had just graduated from City. He'd been in news
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Media
Could I have my RSS as I take my coffee, please? (or why I missed that Telegraph story)
I take my coffee straight: it's one of those instant fixes I'm rather dependent on having available whenever I need it, which, seeing that I work for clients in very different time zones, can be at any hour of the day or night. I do wish
Blogging
Using the social web: an introduction to distributed conversations and the benefits of beat 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
Using the social web, Oslo 25/10 - live notes
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
Media
Another news site moves to open software
Journalisten.se, the news site of Swedish trade publication Journalisten, published by Sweden's journalist union, unveiled its brand new website just after Christmas. The site is built in textpattern, an almost bloglike open software solution. Apart from the much improved layout, the new site is a joy for
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What would we do without internet?
It was Christmas day in a tiny village in a remote corner of the world. My mum wanted to go to church, yet the local paper didn't list at what the times the Christmas sermons were on. Abdicating local coverage? Now, we could talk of abdicating coverage and
Media
Swedish newsstands deprived of FHMs poster girls
The Bonnier-owned publishing house that publishes FHM in Scandinavia, announced this week that it had decided to close the Swedish edition of the male mag. 'The mag faced too much competition, not from the other Swedish male mags, but from the internet,' said editor-in-chief Tobias Wickström. Other commentators
Citizen journalism
Southern California fires coverage shows potential of internet facilitated reporting
With every new major disaster these days, we see evidence that mainstream media finally is waking up to the power of internet facilitated reporting: experimenting with Google Maps, You Tube, Twitter, Flickr, Technorati, Facebook and various other aggregation and social networking tools. A few weeks back it was Burma and
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Welcome back to Oslo (or the dangers of relying solely on your newsreader for news)
I arrived the city safely from my trip to the coast, although at the wrong bus stop (must have been a new driver). Then, just as I was boarding the underground train that would take me from the city centre and home, a pickpocket unzipped my backpack and stole my
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Celebrity scandals and the trouble with Bloglines
Now, I was planning to write the post on media's celebrity obsession last week, and gleefully report towards the end that getting minimal exposure to celebrity news is easier than ever in world where you can slice and dice content as you see fit with RSS and newsreaders.
Marketing and PR
Sun gets green light for web-first corporate news
As of next Monday, 30 July, Sun Microsystems will start releasing key corporate news over the Internet, via the company's website and RSS-feeds. It's thought to be the first time a US company has been allowed to use the web as it's main channel
RSS
The Power of RSS
I found this comment from Craig McGinty on Robin Hamman's blog, and I couldn't resist republishing it here, as the mind-boggling importance of RSS is one of my hobby horses: Something any online publication has to appreciate is that their audience is no longer at the