Keyword: blogging. “Need to link to a New York Times article from your weblog? Enter your link here, and we’ll give you the weblog-safe link”
Keyword: Online Journalism. The Education Guardian reports on the SpinWatch website, what looks like an excellent resource for journalists. Written by researchers, journalists, and, now, anyone who wants to post, it aims to expose “hitherto unknown – or undeclared – links between organisations.” There is some editorial control: the founder, David Miller, professor of sociology at the University of Strathclyde,
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Keyword: Online Journalism. Cautionary – but quite amusing – tale of how two rappers from Scunthorpe duped the Sun and femail.co.uk into running a piece saying they’d been signed to Eminem’s record label. All they had to do was create a fake website.
Keyword: Design. The New York Times reports on how a wave of design-oriented blogs are influencing the design world – and gives a good selection of examples.
Keyword: Blogs. Academics increasingly using blogs for teaching, says the BBC. Tell us something we don’t know.
Keyword: Online Journalism. The BBC reports accusations from Iran that the US government ordered an American internet service provider to stop hosting the website of an official Iranian news agency, The Iranian Student News Agency (the site’s in non-roman characters, presumably Arabic, so will take some time to display on Western browsers).
Keyword: Technology. Rumours abound that Google are planning to launch a VoIP (Internet telephony) service. Here’s the post that led me to those rumours, with some interesting comments. On a related subject, the company has also confirmed that it is introducing a TV search facility that allows user to search the text of the show. There are plans to eventually
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Two great articles from Chris Sherman – the first is a good overview of reference websites, the second his New Year’s search resolutions, including stopping using the Google toolbar (and instead using Firefox’s excellent search plugins) and seeking multiple ‘opinions’ (search results). With the latter point he points out two great sites: Thumbshots’s ranking tool allows you to compare sites’
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Special report in today’s Media Guardian about what non-journalists think about journalism, the upshot being pretty negative. Responses include an op-piece from John Lloyd – sample quote: “The charges … include a belief that standards of veracity and even simple comprehension are lacking; that factual reporting has given way to tendentiousness within reportage itself; that the demands of complex issues
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Given the amount of design theft that goes on in web design, it’s good to see this site providing a number of open source design templates for people to use for their webpages – and there’s general web design info here too.
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