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20 practical and innovative ways to introduce micropayments for newspapers

A couple of posts ago, while pondering micropayments, I wrote "If my time at the BBC has taught me anything, it’s that ideas are worthless ...

7 Comments. Posted by Dave on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 4:53 pm.

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Just one example of how a blog can help your career

I'd like to share with you a string of emails I sent and received recently. Dear [Editor], I would like to offer you this feature idea for ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 8:55 am.

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Is the BBC reporting on Twitter too much?

In the last six months, thanks to a certain Stephen Fry, Twitter has catapulted from being a past-time restricted to, mainly, geeks and journalists into ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 11:00 am.

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Not convinced? 10 things to change your mind about Twitter

Yesterday I went up to Birmingham to visit Paul Bradshaw and his online journalism class. Knowing Paul's area of expertise -- social media, web 2.0 and ...

16 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:51 pm.

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NUJ follow up: I’m still not convinced

I've been doing some thinking about this whole NUJ thing. My post the other night reads very ranty -- indeed, I guess it is very ...

11 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 4:54 pm.

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The new way to learn journalism

There's a very interesting piece in a Guardian supplement today about something they've labelled University 2.0. Annoyingly -- and surprisingly, considering it's the Guardian -- the ...

6 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 1:19 pm.

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Overheard in the Newsroom: My new favourite site!

Oh you just gotta love this. My favourite: “How much does it cost to cremate a horse?” “Lets call someone and find out.” “Who do we call for that?”

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 5:06 pm.

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The excitement of news

There's nothing quite like the excitement of getting a story. It's a feeling I'm missing a bit right now. But I read this post from ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 11:27 pm.

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Video Journalism will save newspapers in 2009

In the past twelve months we've seen the amount of people watching online video go through the roof. But, unlike the YouTube boom that potentially ...

4 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 9:05 am.

Filed under Blogs, Comment, Multimedia, My Work, New Zealand, Newspapers, Social Networking, TV, The BBC, The Future, The Web, video journalism, , , , , , .

The essence of good multimedia journalism

Journalism.co.uk's John Thompson writes: Multimedia for multimedia’s sake rarely works, and is often embarrassing. If you are going to do it, either do it well enough ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:11 pm.

Filed under Blogs, Multimedia, Newspapers, Social Networking, The Future, The Web.

Blogging gives you cancer

Not really. Don't panic. Here's a great new blog following cancer stories in the Daily Mail: "A blog following the Daily Mail’s ongoing mission to divide all ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 5:20 pm.

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Notdailymail_uk saga: Associated Newspapers step in

Mystery one has been solved. Associated Newspapers Limited have, according to the fake Daily Mail blogger, got Twitter by the short and curlies and demanded they ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 7:30 am.

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Extensive Panorama archive online

The new Panorama homepage launched yesterday -- well worth taking a look. It's a collection of blogs, audio/video content and trailers for upcoming programmes. But before you ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 9:25 am.

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BBC HD Test card: Link or be useless!

On the wall in front of me is a big sign that says 'LINK!'. Underneath, in brackets, it says "It's what we do". It really is. ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:48 pm.

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The mistakes that made 2008

The brilliant, marvellous, fantastic, sublimely wonderous Regret the Error blog has posted its round up of the year in errors. This may seem like a grumpy ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 5:27 pm.

Filed under Blogs, Newspapers, The Web.

BBC iPlayer Day — a lesson learned

Last Friday was iPlayer Day, an event on the BBC Internet Blog organised by myself, Nick Reynolds and Jonathan Richardson. It was my first major contribution ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 5:39 pm.

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D’oh! Facebook phishing protection needs some work

Have you seen the new Facebook phishing protection? It's an amicable effort to prevent the sorts of phishing attacks that I believe forced many MySpace ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 5:51 pm.

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Regionals given a lifeline. It’s up to them to use it

Today the BBC Trust pulled an absolutely stinking howler. With its decision to prevent the BBC from improving local journalism, the only people who are ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 1:40 am.

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From newsroom to mailroom

Redundancies are terrifying. Right now, all the news reports are focusing on statistics. 90 lost here, wage freezes there. Soon we can expect to learn of ...

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 1:49 pm.

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Patience is key to online networking

In the past year, I've had the pleasure of teaching lots of people about online journalism. First, a guest lecture at the University of Lincoln about ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 6:28 pm.

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Publisher wanted: The New Blogger’s Handbook

Here's something I've been thinking about a lot recently. The sort of thoughts that plonk themselves in your mind just before you're about to go ...

12 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, November 10, 2008 at 1:56 pm.

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Time-lapse video of NYTimes election night

This is marvellous. I might start doing something like this when I do my coverage round-up style posts. [via Martin Stabe]

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 9:55 pm.

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Simon Amstell takes on Davis Cup Tennis

Thank you to Media Monkey for this stunner from the archives. May I present to you, appearing on the brilliant GamesMaster, the one and only ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 1:19 am.

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BBC Internet Blog: How should we use our Twitter?

Making my debut on the BBC Internet Blog today. Would like feedback on how we are to use our Twitter feed. Read the post here!

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 1:48 pm.

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BBC Election night: Where it went wrong

Election night was great, wasn’t it? I managed to keep up ‘til about 3am, when Ohio officially came in. My choice of coverage was the BBC. ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 12:45 am.

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