Archives for “The Web”

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.

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The passion press: a business model?

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.

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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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Why micropayments won’t corrupt journalism

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="158" caption="Small change guv'nor?"][/caption] I'm quite bemused at the reaction to the micropayments idea from many big names. Clay Shirky says: The threat from micropayments ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm.

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Let’s make love, not walls

The ugliest phrase in journalism at the moment is 'pay wall'. Isn't it just the worst possible way of describing what we want to achieve? ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 9:28 am.

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Three ideas to make newspaper pay walls work

When Murdoch says it's happening -- it's happening. No two ways about it. So when he says paid-for online news content is coming, then I think ...

5 Comments. Posted by Dave on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 11:07 am.

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Huff Post UK: Piers Morgan, can you hear me?

Right then, I'll get straight to it:  The UK needs its own Huffington Post, and Piers Morgan is the only man for the job. Is there ...

3 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 4:24 pm.

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The depressing but inevitable demise of Press Gazette

Today, Wilmington Media announced that Press Gazette, the UK's journalism trade mag, will be closing. It's a sad day -- Press Gazette has been a part ...

10 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 2:07 pm.

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Twitter to introduce paid pro accounts

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.

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Tipping point: The Big Journalism Bail Out

There was always going to be a tipping point. A moment when a cut back meant no newspaper -- rather than just less subs. Or ...

11 Comments. Posted by Dave on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 9:23 am.

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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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Twitter Tales: Euston’s choir

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.

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Cuttings: Social media money, Project Canvas, Al-Jazeera brilliance and brandjackers ahoy

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.

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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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Video: The end of the Rocky Mountain News

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

1 Comment. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 5:51 pm.

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The benefit of hindsight: Saving New Zealand’s newspapers

They say hindsight is a glorious thing. When looking back, everyone can be an expert. Should have done this, shouldn't have done that. If you could ...

5 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 11:01 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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Join the NUJ? Why?

A colleague suggested to me today that I renew my NUJ membership. I've let mine lapse since my student days -- the £10 or so ...

26 Comments. Posted by Dave on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 9:31 am.

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When webcams go bad: Priceless abuse of BBC Nottingham

Major props to @paul_fernley for spotting this gem: (click to enlarge if you need to!) In other news, Paul also mentions that today marks the relaunch of ...

2 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, February 2, 2009 at 9:25 am.

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Reports of her death are greatly exaggerated

Without wanting to seem flippant over this tragic story, I couldn't help notice something very strange on on the Daily Mail site today. Headline: Miss World ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 9:47 am.

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New York Times on advances in video journalism

Nice clip here of Ann Derry, the New York Times’ head of television editorial operations -- a title so long-winded I've just had to copy ...

0 Comments. Posted by Dave on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 11:03 am.

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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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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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