Archives for “Social Networking”
I've been all about micropayments lately -- but here's another idea to chew over. I'm going to call it the "got any spare change guv'nor?" approach. ...
3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 9:44 pm.
Filed under Comment, Social Networking, The Future, The Web, donations, magazines, simon owens, wikipedia.
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.
Filed under Blogs, Comment, Newspapers, Social Networking, Sport, The Future, The Web, ideas, micropayments, oyster card, subscriptions.
Dug away in an article about Twitter in the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Stone says Twitter recently hired a product manager to oversee the development of ...
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 4:10 pm.
Filed under Comment, Social Networking, The BBC, The Future, The Web, pro accounts, tweetgrid, twitter, wall street journal.
I didn't think much of it at the time. In fact, all I thought was that it was shame I couldn't record it happening -- ...
3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 11:36 pm.
Filed under Social Networking, The Future, The Web, euston, one voice community choir, twitter.
Number one sign you've been doing this journalism malarky for a while is that you don't post "LOOK AT ME!!" posts every time something is ...
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, March 9, 2009 at 1:46 pm.
Filed under My Work, Social Networking, The BBC, The Future, The Web, bbc, facebook, journalism.co.uk, project canvas.
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.
Filed under Blogs, Comment, My Work, Social Networking, The BBC, The Future, The Web, bbc, darren waters, dot.life, technology, 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.
Filed under Blogs, Comment, Social Networking, Student Journalism, The Web, main, BCE, breakingnewson, lunch, mc hammer, paul bradshaw, tom watson, tweetminster, twitter.
Look at that graph. It's so steep it reminds me of the mountain range the yodeling man had to run up on 'The Price is ...
4 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 6:04 pm.
Filed under Social Networking, The Future, The Web, account, money, Tfl, transport for london, twitter, Wood Lane.
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.
Filed under Blogs, Comment, Ethics, My Work, New Zealand, Social Networking, Student Journalism, The Web, adrian monck, andrew devigal, education, greg linch, mindy mcadams, new york times, paul bradshaw, richard keeble, university of lincoln, university of miami.
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, 4od, BBC iPlayer, david dunkley gyimah, guardian, NYTimes, video 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.
This is a really neat service: Crisiswire. It doesn't do anything too fancy -- just has events-based pages (here's Gaza) filled with various social media sources.
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 9:01 am.
Filed under Social Networking, The Web, work, crisiswire, emergency, gaza.
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.
Filed under Blogs, Comment, Newspapers, Social Networking, Tabloids, The Web, associated newspapers, daily mail, notdailymail_uk, twitter.
The fake Daily Mail Twitter account has been causing a few laughs lately. Status messages like: "Tomorrow's front page "COULD CURRY GIVE YOU CANCER?" Also ...
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 12:16 am.
Filed under Newspapers, Social Networking, Tabloids, The Web, daily mail, dailymail_uk, fake, john travolta, notdailymail_uk, slandr, twitter.
Barely a moment goes by when I'm not defending the usefulness of Twitter. If I was given a shiny tenner each time someone asked me ...
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 2:46 pm.
Filed under Social Networking, The Web, andy reed, government, jonathan djanogly, tom watson, tweetminster, twitter.
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.
Filed under Blogs, General, Multimedia, My Work, Social Networking, TV, The BBC, The Web, bbc, bbc internet blog, iplayer.
It's projects like this that make me sure that the Guardian is indeed the best newspaper in the UK. On November 5 we started a photographic ...
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 7:23 pm.
Filed under Newspapers, Social Networking, The Web, book, flickr, guardian, obama.
As part of my little experiment monitoring the improvements that need to be made to regional news, I'm going to take a few moments here ...
0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 7:02 pm.
Filed under Regional, Social Networking, The BBC, The Web, ireland, johnston press, limerick leader, memorial, sunderland.
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.
Filed under Blogs, Social Networking, The BBC, The Web, facebook, phishing, redirection, url.
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.
Filed under Blogs, My Work, New Zealand, Social Networking, Student Journalism, The Web, facebook, students, twitter, westminster.
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.
Filed under Blogs, My Work, Social Networking, Student Journalism, The BBC, The Future, The Web, book, publishing, the new blogger's handbook.
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.
Filed under Blogs, My Work, Social Networking, The BBC, The Future, The Web, bbc internet blog, twitter.
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.
Filed under Blogs, New Zealand, Newspapers, Social Networking, TV, The BBC, The Web, america, bbc, blog, bloggers, dimbleby, election, huffington, jeremy vine, mccain, obama, ohio, sky, voting.
NOTE: This page will be updating regularly from now until God-knows-when. Send me your suggestions here or leave a comment on this post. Exciting times, folks. ...
3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 11:33 am.
Filed under Blogs, Debate, General, Multimedia, Newspapers, Social Networking, TV, The BBC, The Future, The Web, bbc, Blogs, cnn, elections, fox, huffington post, live, mccain, obama, opinion, results, sky, USA.

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The greatness of social media (with the help of 8 Minute Abs)
If you read media blogs in order to learn something new, or find the next big thing, then I'd advise you skip this post. It ...
1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Monday, June 1, 2009 at 6:40 pm.
Filed under Comment, Social Networking, The Web, 8 minute abs, combichrist, jaime brenkus, workout, youtube.