NUJ is wrong
I’m still ferverish and grumpy so if this turns into a rant you’ll know why! The Guardian columnist and former Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade is leaving the National Union of Journalists because he...
View ArticleAnswers: Sly Bailey
Well! I didn’t get an interview with Her Slyness after all. But we were introduced and I did have a short chat with her (without my notebook). We chatted about Web 2.0 and my recent rant about Roy...
View ArticleNUJ is wrong (2)
Another blog post from Greenslade on the NUJ’s attitude towards Web 2.0. Again, I find myself agreeing with him. He describes the frustrations of X, a journalist on a regional weekly. I predict that X...
View ArticleBedtime reading for the NUJ…
…and for any journlist who wants to get to grips with the future of journalism. I’ve been following Paul Bradshaw‘s recent posts about blogging and investigative journalism with great interest....
View ArticleTalking to Donnacha
It may be noticeable that, since I commented on Greenslade’s departure from the NUJ last month, this blog has lurched into a discussion on the future journalism and online content. To my surprise,...
View ArticleWhat I’m going to do with the Flickr feedback
As the flow of comments has started to slow on the Flickr post, I thought I’d let you all know what I plan to do next! Over the next few weeks (after I’ve finished my first assignment), I’ll start...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
I remember being shown this video by Pete Ashton, about the same time as I first dipped my toe into the blogging pool. I watched it again today in amazement at how much more I understood about social...
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Interaction on business news websites
I’m writing an essay at the moment for my Editorial Leaders course I’m doing at UCLAN. I’m trying to figure out how people get news from websites, what tools they want and what might make them stick...
View Article“The Collaborator”? Naming Newspapers 2.0
This evening I had that very rare and precious of things: time on my hands. But, unfortunately, it appears that when given space to think I don’t always use it that wisely. As I was pounding on the...
View ArticleHow to approach social media like a grown up
I have just come across this presentation made by Sacha Chua for IBM called “Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work”: The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work It was linked to from a Read Write Web article called...
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