Another Twitter lead led me to this one: “Going Solo is a chance to learn how to do things like set your rates, make yourself known, close deals, find clients or let them find you, explain what you do to the world, find a life-work balance, or deal with administrivia in the networked world we web people work in. “Who’s
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The EJC filmed three videos during the day at JEEcamp – here they are:
Thanks to Shawn Smith for leading me to Twitter Quotient.
This week’s Something for the Weekend is a little different, as it’s a tool for newsgathering rather than publishing. But what a tool. iMacro is a plugin for Firefox, with paid versions for Internet Explorer or standalone use. There’s a lot of corporate/technical jargon on the website (“create solutions for web automation”), because, like some of the best web tools
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I’m not the only one to have noticed an unusual surge of people signing up to Twitter recently. But today, Downing Street started using it. And when the UK government signs up to Twitter, you know it’s hit the mainstream. Oh, and where did I hear this? On Twitter. Anyway, turns out it’s just Twitter shovelware using Twitterfeed, though that’s
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All the information you need to know can be found on the webcamp wiki. With the login ‘mobiel’ and the password ‘devcamp’ you can add your name, and a presentation you want to give. More details on Dorien Aerts’ blog. I’ve asked Dorien to report on what happens…
Someone recently posted on my Facebook wall: “Paul, I don’t understand, and fear I may be too old for all this already… but… what exactly is the point of twitter?” I can come up with at least nine answers. I’m sure you can come up with more: It’s a great way to publish to mobile devices; it’s a social networking
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Charlotte Dunckley is a final year journalism degree students who has already launched a fanzine and is in the process of turning it into a commercially viable magazine – Things. She recently popped in for an ad hoc tutorial and I asked her about her web strategy. “I don’t have a website,” she replied. “But you have a blog?” “Yes.”
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What is a publisher’s “duty of care” to bloggers?
Amidst the recent furore over Max Gogarty’s unblog-like/allegedly nepotistic travel blog entry on the Guardian website, a phrase caught my eye: Director of Digital Content Emily Bell’s reference to their “duty of care” to blogger Max. It particularly interested me because I had a similar experience recently with a student blogger, who was on the receiving end of ferocious (and
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