Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 I’ve posted before on the usefulness of blogging as a tool for journalism graduates, and journalists trying to make the move from print to online. But a key challenge is how to keep going, day after day, week after week, month after grinding month. As […]
Midgets, hookers, wrestling: seriously – what more could a sub ask for?
It strikes me there’s a kind of assumption around journalism that it somehow needs bespoke tools to do its job in the new digital media world. But actually I think it should stick to its existing strengths. In the spirit of research, I’ve just visited the Royal College of Art summer graduation show to check out […]
So – no sign of the post I was expecting on my Twitter account, but Twitterfeed managed to pull out my previous post about the Yemeni air crash. Something’s working – I’m just not sure what it is. [Twitterfeed update UPDATE: Of course, this post has made it in. Which looks silly…]
The Online Journalism Blog says RSS is dead and newspapers should abandon their useless RSS news feeds for Twitter. As the OJB is such an authority, when it says “jump”, I obviously ask “how high?”. And then, sheeplike, I swap my no-doubt useless RSS feed for a link to my Twitter account. How easy will this be? […]
History is rewritten by the internet, as yesterday’s five-year-old boy survivor of the Yemeni air crash off the Cormoros islands today morphs strangely into a 14-year-old girl. I’m sure it’s nice that the incorrect official statements have been corrected. But I’ve noticed that sometimes this has happened without much acknowledgement of the change. So Google […]
Today I’ve invited another blogger to join me in a discussion about the future of web journalism and the economics of publishing in a rapidly digitising world. Blogging about the world of amateur horticulture under the name Soilman (well, it’s nice to have a hobby), he also has wide experience in journalism and editorial training. […]