Last week I introduced the ‘Something for the weekend’ feature where I post a link to an online tool which has potential journalistic applications. This week’s tool is Comiqs, “a service that lets our users create and share their comic-style stories with the community. We aim to provide our users with easy to use tools that transforms their most cherished
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If you’re not one of the 3,000-plus people to have viewed Dave Lee’s video of the BBC’s “shambolic” coverage (or lack of) the UK earthquake this week, I’ve embedded it below. This deserves to be watched by everyone at the BBC (although interestingly, only Sky, who come out of this quite well, appear to be linking to it). For everyone
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It’s two weeks till JEEcamp – the ‘unconference’ around journalism enterprise and entrepreneurship. There are now over 40 people signed up across the JEEcamp wiki and Facebook event page, representing the national and regional press, tabloid and broadsheet, magazines, bloggers, freelancers, academics and journo startups. So if you still want to come but haven’t signed up, please add your name
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As you have probably worked out, this year’s Online Journalism students have been building up towards launching an environmental news website. This week the site went public, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned so far… The Background The site is the final year project of two final year journalism degree students – Azeem
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The ‘Birmingham: It’s Not Shit’ blog (“Mildly sarcastic since 2002″) has started a game of “blog tig” (others might call it blog tag) in an effort to find out who else is blogging in the UK’s second city. Bounder, who writes the blog, sets up the following rules: “Each player starts with an odd, but fun, fact about Brum and
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If you read the final part of my model for the 21st century newsroom concerning new media business models, I strongly recommend ‘Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business‘, an article by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail. Have you not clicked yet? Here are some quotes to persuade you: “To follow the money, you have to shift from
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In December I used Twitterfeed to send posts and comments from my blog to my Twitter page at http://twitter.com/paulbradshaw. I’ve never been entirely comfortable with this, branding it “twitter shovelware“, so today I’ve reclaimed my feed. From today http://twitter.com/paulbradshaw will only carry my personal tweets – what I’m doing, thinking, saying. The updates on blog posts, comments and bookmarks are now fed
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In an attempt to reconnect with its readers, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) introduced a thematic and participatory website a few weeks ago. The translation of The Kindly Ones, a blockbuster book wherever it’s been released, landed in German bookstores last Saturday, February 23. Its controversial content (sex, Nazis and sadism) makes it a favorite conversation topic among the
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I’ve been teaching my student journalists how to use the content management system for our new news website (more about that in a later post). We’re using Joomla – it does a lot, but it’s not exactly user-friendly, which ironically makes it a very good experience for anyone who’ll have to use newspaper CMS’s. And this begs the question: what
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Student journalists cover the UK earthquake
Kudos to two of my student journalists who had the nous to report on last night’s earthquake as soon as it happened, using Twitter, blogs and the website, and sourcing from forums, Twitter, blogs, and Flickr. Quickest off the draw was Stephen Nunes, who posted a tweet complete with link to the U.S. Geological Survey (journalistic quandary: to twitter immediately
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