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? […]
Ever since I got an email from social bookmark site StumbleUpon I’ve been trying to figure out how on earth the site works and where to find myself on it. Just for the hell of it, I tried emailing StumbleUpon’s technical support. I was pretty terse initially, as I was fairly ticked off with what […]
From the Twitter feed: do journ educators misunderstand level of students’ web skills?advanced online journalism module set up at Sunderland-only 4 signed up From my observations – yes, I think we do. As I’ve noted before, journalism (and other) students live their lives on Facebook, but when it comes to actually using the web more, […]
I recently reported a minor traffic spike from a bookmark on Reddit, which rekindled my interest in social bookmarking sites. So imagine my excitement when I got an inbound referring link from StumbleUpon, which is one step better at number three in the social bookmarking rankings. “One of our members added your page to the Writing […]
Back to the grind this week, but just time to wonder what’s up with “video sharing site” Livingscoop.com. Like other journos, perhaps, I received an email invitation to “register my interest” in the site a few days ago. In slightly strangled English, it claims to be: A very good place for training, improving and to promote […]
With one bound, this blog has gone viral. (Well, kind of). I’ve always been curious about social bookmarking, but never really explored it very much. Aside from signing up to StumbleUpon to see how it worked, I haven’t really used sites such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us to steer or filter my web use. […]
I just got into an interesting spat with Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism. Apparently he thinks only the phone is good enough for journalists to use to chase up stories. For contact with interviewees or sources of information the telephone is ALWAYS the right way to make the first […]
No, it’s not advice from me. It’s advice from hyperactive blogmeister John Scalzi, who has posted a handy video of a forum from the Tools of Change online media publishing conference thing in New York in February. I was aware of the event, and it looked very interesting. I would have liked to have gone […]
Or, why the web can sometimes seem so very meta I noted recently that “people don’t care half as much about news as people in old media think they do. What they care about is entertainment and connectivity”. Though it’s the sort of thing that has old-style news journalists weeping and tearing their hair out (well, […]