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I thought as a writer you could just get paid to write
I heard that phrase in the cafe to day as I was working on lectures for next week. It was a small group trying to get [...]
The new CNN homepage
CNN have updated their website. I like the layout although I think the boxed content and the ad on the right are a little to similar and the movement of the ad is very distracting. But [...]
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I’m doing a lot more video this year as part of my digital teaching. One reason for that is we have bought a boat load of Flip video recorders [...]
I’m very taken with the general move towards more data from primary sources. Councils, government orgs etc. putting stats, facts, figures and information online for us to use and mashup. Those orgs who are savvy enough to drive this stuff through RSS make it even easier for [...]
Are related stories the cart before the comment horse (Image via Wikipedia)
I was browsing around the coverage of the postal strike today and came across a story on my local paper (well, local to uni) the LEP. One of the comments [...]
I recently posted about how to add a quick form using Google docs. Kasper Sorenson left a comment asking if it was possible to update an image dynamically
Sometime ago, I wanted to create a dynamic chart based on values that were being entered into a [...]
Most of my teaching today has been about the basics of online presentation – online writing etc. As an exercise I pulled some council news from the web to give us something to work with. It was a simple story, a local council by-election. But it [...]
These are my links for August 25th through September 20th:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Red Kayaks and Hidden Gold (copy 1) – This is an astute and balanced survey of how public participation is reforming journalism. Kelly sets out clearly and calmly the big questions [...]
There is a future for news – a sustainable and once-again profitable future with the prospect of expanding and improving journalism by taking it deeper into our communities with increased relevance, engagement, accountability and efficiency.
That’s the view of uber J-blogger Jeff Jarvis who, when not asking [...]
Last week I posted about a little wordpress plugin I wrote called FancyCatlist. It made a nice little category menu similar to the kind of thing you would see on Everyblock. I wrote it as part of the process of putting together one of [...]
These are my links for July 27th through August 6th:
How blogs became part of BBC News « Reportr.net – "The story of how blogging is changing journalism at the BBC is told in my research paper, The Blogging BBC: Journalism blogs at “the world’s most trusted [...]An updated version of the plugin is now available with the links fixed
I’m in the process of putting together websites for the students to use this coming academic year and one of the things I wanted to try was a beatblog similar to the Everyblock style of site. [...]
I know, I know. I’m supposed to be taking a rest from blogging. Well, it’s getting close to term time again (I had that in my mind as a time to revist the blog) and with a bit of space behind me to clear my head I wanted to dip [...]
These are my links for June 5th through July 27th:
Journalism should look to collaboration, not charity – Jeff Jarvis is pretty free with the word charity here. Is it the charity that supports the organisation? Is the work of unpaid bloggers, citizen journos and UGC charity work? Why does [...]These are my links for May 8th through June 5th:
OUP Dictionary Team monitors Twitterer’s tweets – Ahh. Metamediajournalism. Apparently " A recent study out of Harvard confirms Twitter is all vanity" erm. Yes. and…. The Birmingham Mail’s Gareth Barry letter: why so late on the web? – A lot [...]I know, I know I said I had closed down the blog (apart from the results of the video survey. Which are still coming by the way) but I though the blog was the best place to plant a flag for this.
Myself and long term partner in crime Paul Egglestone [...]
These are my links for April 22nd through May 8th:
Digital Inclusion: The Evidence — Digital Engagement – A cracking presentation with a huge range of stats on digital inclusion – are we really talking to all our audience when we go online? Teaching Online Journalism » Multimedia journalism teaching: [...]These are my links for April 14th through April 22nd:
The blurring of journalist career paths – What journalists need to do (and how they need to think) in this new digital economy Some SXSW-inspired thoughts about online communities, affinity, and the rules of engagement. – I've been thinking a [...]These are my links for March 23rd through April 13th:
Print is still king – "The fact remains, of course, that not only is online revenue alone insufficient to sustain news operations, but the print operations of our larger newspapers, having lost most monopoly pricing power, are not sustainable either, [...]It’s been three years since I started this blog. The first (on topic) post was back in 2006 and it was a short post blogging Katie Couric’s move to NBC which prompted Newsweek to ponder if “the real action in TV news may be happening on the [...]
CNN’s ireport has posed an interesting question
Faced with declining readership and a worsening economy, many newspapers are grappling with whether to stop the presses. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News recently closed its doors, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online-only format.
How does this affect you? Do you read [...]
Here is what I’ve been scanning today whilst getting my head around validation paperwork
The FT newsroom in 2009 - The FT release a document outlining what they are going to do next in their newsroom I predict a lot of newspaper execs getting their assistants to download this.Yes, the iphone gets version 3.0 and some new features with it.
I wouldn’t normally post about this, but it’s a chance to try the BBC’s embedded video again. I’m so glad that I can embed this rather than the full presentation video where, I swear, the presentation ‘jazz-hands’ of [...]
The big read today, for everyone, has been Clay Shirky’s essay on thinking the unthinkable . A more cogent discussion of the issues around newspapers would be hard to find. Lots chimed with me and to pick one part to quote kind-of defeats the structure of the piece. So [...]
Adam Westbrook is a radio journalists who has been experimenting with video. He has a great post on his blog about how tricky juggling the needs of different mediums can be and, as the picture above proves, he wasn’t just trying this out at the [...]
Here isa lost of things that have caught my eye over the last week or so:
Digital Diversity: bloggers and polymaths « Running, jumping, climbing trees… - Peter Moor offers his “five attributes that I think an ambitious blogger would do well to have” MediaPost Publications Moving From Interruption To [...]
Thanks to @ourman for the tiwtter tip off for this great post at AfriGadget about Alfred Sirleaf, Liberia’s Blackboard Blogger.
Alfred serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that simple is often better, just because it works. The lack of electricity never throws [...]
oooh pretty colours...
It seems that everyone is in the mood for sharing at the moment. The BBC is allowing embedded video and now the Guardian is sharing its data.
It’s been on the cards for a while but it’s still great to see the [...]
Jim’s fellow students always took the piss out of him when he read the daily mail (Image via Wikipedia)
Given that this is a post about newspapers I suppose that could have been “students slammed for not reading” or “students blast [...]
I’m getting back to my roots this week with lots of video stuff including my Newspaper video survey. So it was nice to get an email from James Cuff at the South Wales Echo who gave me the heads up for a video he produced as [...]
A twitter tag cloud of newspaper video (generated using cloud.li)
It’s grim times out there for video at the moment. The tag cloud above, generated from twitter, tells a familiar story.
As Colin Mulvany recently put it
Newspaper produced [...]
How’s about that for an offer?
As part of their Meld initiative we are working on a project called InFuze. It is offering freelance journalists and content producers looking to update their skills for a multiplatform world a FREE six week course.
InFUZE is looking for talented professional [...]
One or two of you may have had an email with a link to this site. The link then redirects to a porn site. This has now been fixed - a little injection hacking I think. But I’m sorry if the anyone was upset by the content.
A big thanks to [...]
Here is what made it past the ‘mark all as read’ of the weekend:
Swedish newspaper trials article on Pirate Bay - Interesting, Very Interesting The 10 questions I ask myself before I publish any blog post « These Digital Times - ” used to publish my blog posts immediately [...]
It might be an iceberg but it's a minor in a court case so we ignore it.(picture from Ludovic Hirlimann on Flickr )
I’ve spent the day in the pleasent' [...]
Here is what I’ve been reading today
PLEASE STAND BY: There’s nothing worse than a reformed smoker - except Twitter evangelists - Another angle on the whole twitter thing from Iain Hepburn. “with the amount of almost over-enthusiastic shilling of the service going on, it’s tempting to rename it Bleater.” [...]I’m holed up in the Middlesbrough Central Travelodge and getting some kind of insight in to what living in halls must be like. To say the room is basic is,well, to give it more credit then it deserves. But hey, at least I have great stuff like this to look [...]
I do like a nice mashup and they are not just the preserve of techies as an ever increasing range of tools means the humble journo can mash with the best of them.
In that spirit I wanted to share [...]
Today I have mostly been reading
Motorway camera map - JP’s deal with the highways agency produces a neat little map. The next step is to make it mobile friendly and I think this could attract quite a bit of ad revenue. New York Times lets users build things with [...]Here is what I cast my eye over at the weekend:
Five barriers to journalists using Twitter - Sarah Hartley has a great list of barriers - and rebuttals - to the twitter question. My personal fave is number 3. “I don’t have the time. Your competitors have found time.” [...]I’m trying to whean myself of too much weekend posting - work life balance and all that. But I thought it was worth giving a bit more visibility to a comment on my recent post about The Plymouth Heralds new social networking site.
The Herald’s web editor Neil Shaw responded [...]
This is what’s been turning my head today:
Special mention to a series of posts by Sam Shepherd responding to Roy Greenslade’s “no reason for subs” thoughts
Subs v Greenslade (part one) « Subbed Out? - “to write off every sub outside London (and every sub that doesn’t work for [...]
Superman, Clarke Kent or drunk traffic cone molester - what does your facebook profile. Picture by shaun wong (flickr)
Okay, that has to be the worst English I have written (even by my standards) [...]
I’ve been chatting with my undergraduate students about their experience with digital whilst on work placement. They went to a mix of magazines, regional newspapers(weekly and daily) and some to websites. As you can imagine their experience was a mixed bag from no digital at all to shooting video for [...]
This is what I’ve been looking at today:
BBC uses copyright image from Flickr for News 24 | BitterWallet - Oops. Maybe it’s creative commons rather than open source that the BBC need help with Five open source ideas to inspire a meeting - The [...]
iHerald - it’s facebook for local people
Going through my feeds today I can across news, via Press Gazette, that The Plymouth Herald had launched its own social networking site called iHerald
Thisisplymouth and Herald web editor Neil Shaw said: “The response [...]
What I’ve been reading today:
Multimédia : le NYT sait emballer ! - Fabrice Gontier see’s the NYTimes latest slideshow offering and wonders why the French are so far behind A local Twitter tool for local journalists - A heads-up of a nice new tool for journos from John Thompson [...]Here’s what I’ve been reading today:
Free Sheet Newspapers versus Traditional Daily Newspapers: Competing or Complementary? An Empirical Comparison of their Gratifications to Readers - “The free sheets’ strength lies especially in fulfilling an entertaining function” and “readers receive a higher gratification by traditional daily newspapers in the information/orientation dimension” [...]
Videographers flocked to catch a glimpse of a running story - picture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentish/67087395/
Tracy Boyer has an interesting post about the ethics of staging and directing contributors when shooting video. She sets out [...]
These are some interesting things I’ve been reading
Writing about Twitter? Ten pointers to prevent you looking a twit « Sarah Hartley - A cracking round-up of twitter do’s and don’ts for journos from Sarah Hartley Follow 50 recommended journalists on one screen - A great set up by Kevin [...]I’ve been catching up with some reading (that “mark all as read” option only kept things at bay for a while).
I started with Alison Gows take on the an event at my Uni last week. Mark Skipworth, executive editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, came in to talk [...]
Where's Andy - Image by Nick.Garrod on Flickr
I’m taking a break and dissapearing to the other side of the world for a rest. Normal service will be resumed in a few weeks time.
[...]The third of my recent new year convictions was Point-and-shoot, mojo video is the predominant form for newspaper video but organisations will still need to develop a quality video strategy
Not sure what point-and shoot is here’s my not so serious definition
Looking back over the year I’ve realised that I haven’t [...]
Cookie cut or good business? Network template CMS's - Picture from Flickr by Toucanradio
The second of my new year convictions is Print organisations will need to open source some or all of' [...]
I thought I would start with a “guess the object” comp. Answer at the end.
Wendy Parker has some good advice about getting started with blogging -Beginning blogging for journalists: Get started, already!
On the geek side of things JVC Pro debuts solid state camcorders for Final Cut [...]
Not that TV model! Image from Flickr by C-Monster
Yesterday I set out four new year convictions. Things that I thought where going to be important this year because, well, they had to be.
First was Broadcast thinking will be [...]
More marking today and I’m finding interesting things about Preston and the people there. I’m also learning a lot about what I need to teach people before they leave us for the uncertain “real-world”. We all learn from assignments in ivorytowerville.
So, whilst I digest tails of dogging (no, I’m not [...]
Here is today’s collection of links and things that have come my way in between marking.
First off is something that makes me feel less guilty about giving you lots of links to work with. Gina Chen at Save the Media notes that linking was missing from list [...]
Much as I hate my first post for the new year to be a link list I’m elbow deep in marking at the moment. So here is what I’ve found interesting today.
Business Models for news online - Paul Bradshaw shares a recent presentation and jolly good it is to.
Amani [...]
It’s Carnival of journalism time again and having sat out the last one (sorry Adam) I thought I better get my hand in again. This month’s ringmaster is Spot.us guru David Cohn and his topic - Positive new media predictions for the year 2009.
Now there’s a challenge [...]
Fellow UClaner Louise Thomas has published the findings of her research that looked at the use of social bookmarking. Plenty of interesting stuff
The type of bookmarks used also distinguishes the two groups, with links to sites such as Fark, NewsVine, MySpace and NowPublic proving much more popular among [...]
Fench newspapers. Picture by Phil Moore from Flickr
Continuing a Francophile tone to the blog I thought you might find Alain Giraudo’s post on a report of the state of the internet interesting.
He picks up on an article on [...]
A very neat timeline of International Journalism: media freedom around the world from the journalism.co.uk team.
Definitely worth a look.
These are my links for November 12th through December 16th:
Eric Scherer at AFP newsnet has an interesting roundup of the French media’s reaction to the head of Google News, Josh Cohen as he asks what role will Google play in the news ecosystem?.
He’s got this nifty video of the twitter coverage as well as some very juicy [...]
The journo, originally uploaded by digitaldickinson.
A nice Steve Bell Cartoon from the NUJ’s Journalist magazine.
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In my own life I’ve seen it a thousand times, where there was the old rock’n'roll establishment beating up the punks, which I was part of, or it was the Aid establishment beating up [...]
A map of Norwegian papers using Youtube
Christoph Schmitz has created a map of Norwegian newspapers using Youtube. Â With mine and Mark Luckie’s we could be on our way to a world atlas!
Update: Just checked my trackbacks and found [...]
The disposable medium - Picture by Pete Ashton via Flickr
I was on the train back from London last week and found myself sat behind a guy with a huge pile of newspapers. For the duration of the trip from London to Manchester he systematically [...]
Liverpool Daily Post used democracy site "what do they know" for this story
Update: Alison has a great post on her blog about this story with some insight in to what a big cultural shift this has [...]
I’ve been doing a bit of ‘multimedia’ with students including maps and the wonders of Dipity timelines. Whilst picking through the backlog of posts in my reader I came across a few posts with defining moments for online journalism. So, as a bit of fun, I thought I would [...]
Inspired by Mark S. Luckie and his fantastic map of US newspapers using youtube I thought I would give it a go for the UK. The result (nowhere near as nice as Marks) is a real mix of pipes, maps and google docs. So it isn’t neat but it [...]
Michael Rosenblum @ Society of Editors 08 from Paul Bradshaw on Vimeo.
Michael Rosenblum has been doing his ’sky is falling in’ schtick again this time at the recent society of editors do. Thanks to some spiffing video from Paul Bradhaw Rosenblum’s view has been stirring [...]
As a brief reason (excuse) as to my lack of posting over [...]
These are my links for October 23rd through November 4th:
I found myself on the Belfast Telegraph website yesterday looking at their rather nice crime map. A nice mashup but the ability to compare years visually would have really made it for me.
The Belfast Telegraph Crime map
Still, whilst exploring I noticed a [...]
Kristene Lowe left a comment on my post about getting out of the office, even it’s just in a virtual way, saying that one of the reasons that journalists get out of the office less is that “online journalism has become centered around traffic, best achieved by volume, [...]
The Washington Post
There is so much great multimedia coverage of the US election out there. But The Washington Post’s TimeSpace beta caught my eye. Fun to navigate and explore and it includes tweets.
[...]I‘ve been pondering that titular mantra for while now. I’ve got to the point where I’m wondering whether my focus on the idea that the web will not just simply cough up a story is really about a broader shift in mindset that journalists need to make or more [...]
I’ve been spending a lot of time doing prep for teaching and training that I’m doing at the moment. So expect the slow appearance of a backlog of posts on video and other related issues. But I thought I would share something that has been in my radar for a [...]
Some interesting links that have made it to my delicious account today:
The journalism carnival is back in town and, as has become the tradition, the ringmaster suggests a topic. This month Will Sullivan posed this question
What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization? (Yes, we’d all like to swing in our newsroom, [...]
I’m back in work after a stint of what’s known around here as freshers flu. (all the new students bring more than just eager minds to class)
I know I have a lot of things that I need to post to make good on stuff I started before a bit of [...]
An interesting challenge both in terms of the competition and what it says to the industry.
But a thought struck me. Do we need a competition for this? Who is the validation for?
If the mainstream media had its reationship with the audience right then it would be highlighting the good stuff [...]
A few tweets from Sarah Hartley gave me an idea for an iphone app:
My mock up of iwall
I’m going to call it iwall and it’s specially designed to give you a portable bit of wall to bang your head against when you [...]
Lots of things have got in the way if finishing my little review of what the top regional papers are doing with video but, battling through, I’m at the end of the list. Last but by no means least is the Bradford Telegraph and Argus
The T&A [...]
