It does take the BBC a while to catch up with these things, but now they have, their article is one of the most readable and accessible introductions to the trend, including some useful links to How to Podcast, Podcast.net and Podcast Alley. Oh, and you’ll need an ipodder.
Bloggers could better protect themselves if they took a few pages out of the reporter’s notebook, says Steve Outing, as a follow-up to What journalists can learn from bloggers. While I’m at it I should mention his article on Alpha Bloggers, too.
The interactive timeline in particular is a wonderful representation of the trends of the last year. UPDATE (1.Jan.05): eBay pulse does the same thing for items being sold (thanks to rexblog.com for that one).
Quoting my own posting on another blog? How self-centred. Still, saves me typing it all over again…
Worth keeping an eye on for 2005: Backfence.com and Pegasus News. Now, I’m off to rest for the festive season and hopefully finally read We The Media…
Yet another review of 2004 (that year sounds old already) which mentions the impact of blogs – only this time it’s from the OJR’s Mark Glaser, and so worth reading. PS: Thanks to the posting on Micro Persuasion – a great site in itself – which pointed me to the article (which in turn was turfed up by a search
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Shame on me for not knowing about this sooner, but Findory.com is another personalised news service: this one looks at what you read and what you search for, and builds a customised news page for you (in a kind of Amazon Recommends sort of way). This does seem better than the more arbitrary RSS feeds that can overwhelm you with
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Thanks to Cursor.org for bringing left i on the news to my attention, a media monitoring blog whose posts include highlighting “an AFP story reporting that U.S. troops in Fallujah “had orders to shoot all males of fighting age seen on the streets, armed or unarmed,” a reader comments on “the fact that fighting-age males were prohibited from evacuating the
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This article from Editor and Publisher about news navigation makes the welcome point that “News sites should learn from other online publishers: Links navigation is becoming less important, and search capabilities must become much more intelligent.” Professional companies should devote a member of staff to search, and probably consider getting into a paid relationship with Google or Topix.net to use
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Quite a cute little article by TIME which lists gives a succinct overview of the blogging medium in 2004, including blog scoops, blogs keeping news alive (Instapundit.com, dailykos.com), titillating blogs (washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com, wonkette.com), fake blogs (plainlayne.dreamhost.com, billclintondailydiary.blogspot.com), blog gendering, political campaigning (blog.deanforamerica.com, spitzer2006.com) and those fired because of blogs.
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