Today’s first year Farnham blogging workshop almost collapsed under the weight of UCA’s unspeakably terrible IT infrastructure. Note to the college – SORT IT OUT. None of the students’ Macs could actually launch software, and took about ten minutes to log in. If they could at all. That’s how bad it was. But, after dealing […]
Via Richard Kendall: From Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog comes this quite useful slideshow on producing web content. He can’t spell scanability, mind, and forgets that when quick is used as an adverb it needs an “ly” at the end. But some useful pointers on the need for clarity, brevity and, crucially, interactivity.
Joshua Benton at the NiemanJournalismLab believes journalism is, effectively, screwed because no one these days will pay for anything online, especially the young who have grown up with the free online content. If you’ve grown up in a free online environment, paying for digital content isn’t just a pain — it’s unthinkable. This is absolutely […]
Regional magazine Leeds Guide flags up a “major investigation” into the death of print newspapers. Well – it’s 1,250 words, which is hardly the Sunday Times Insight exposé of Israel’s secret nuclear programme we saw in 1986 (around 3,250 – and, you know, I think it probably took longer to research). Also, while it’s nice […]
A challenge from Twitter Just up on the online journalism Twitter feed from Kari Rippetoe: What advice would you give a print journalism vet to transition into web content editing? Pls twt your advice & feel free to blog about it. It’s an interesting question, and one I’m pretty much in the middle of, so OK […]
I posted here about the government report that finds young people leave school or college without being able to write in real English rather than SMS speak. As an old sub, of course, I find poor spelling and grammar are like nails down a blackboard to my delicate sensibilities. But maybe – just maybe – I’m wrong. […]
Yes – just as I’ve sorted a Twitter feed, it is revealed in Revolution magazine that Twitter is, like, so five minutes ago. Jeez, guys – can’t you give me a break here and let me catch up with the zeitgeist? Now I’ve got to start Yammering or Spotifying, or maybe get all Seesmic on […]
The Twitter feed seems to have settled down and be updating regularly, thankfully. It’s interesting being able to get these two technologies to talk to each other. Whether the content of the Tweets is actually worth anything is another matter of course. But I’ve already clicked through to an interesting piece on how an item […]
Well, after a bit of random copying and pasting of RSS links, I have got some kind of feed visible in the sidebar column. But bizarrely, it bears no relation to the Tweetfeed I copied it from, and if you click through to the RSS feed itself, it bears no relation to that either. In […]
The nice folk at BlogCatalog sent me a link to use their new Tweetfeed service, which allows you to create a custom Twitter feed on the topic of your choice (say, journalism, just to pluck something out of the air) and then stick the feed on your blog via a widget. Typically, of course, I […]