(This entry was originally posted by Dave Lee on jBlog) A few days ago on this blog, Paul Bradshaw wrote what he called one of the most important posts he’s ever made. Here it is. In it he describes how the era of the awkward, socially backward geek is nearly behind us. They’re not geeks, he says, they’re early adopters.
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Hope you enjoy this. Concept by Paul Bradshaw, drawings by the wonderful Alex Hughes: Here are some Twitter avatar-size versions too: .
I’ve been asked to join a panel of European journalism types at the BLOG08 conference in Amsterdam on October 24 (“Journalism versus/ heart blogging” at 11.45). If you’re going to be there – or just in the neighbourhood – let me know and I’ll shout you a coffee.
The second part of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere report is out, with more obvious headlines: the more you post, the better your blog does. Here’s the detail from TechCrunch: “Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the
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Writer’s Residence is a web service which thinks journalism students are stupid. “Student journalists worldwide can register for a free, one-year membership to an online writing portfolio Web site that they can use to show off their writing and demonstrate their web savvy to potential employers.” After that? “Membership costs only $8.29 US Dollars per month.”
Just go here. And discuss.
Thanks to James Thornett for pointing out this wonderful tool. MapTube allows you to select any two or maps and combine them, so: “For example, to see a map of the London Underground overlayed on top of a map of population, go to the search page and enter the keywords “tube” and “population”. Then click on the two relevant maps
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Following the Liverpool Post’s imaginative use of comics in its coverage of the 50-foot, 37-tonne mechanical spider La Princess, Toronto’s Globe and Mail has this great graphic explanation of the financial crisis: Here’s the Post’s graphic novel insert cover if you’re interested…
Last week I was at a magazine publishers talking about social media platforms, when it was put to me that the platform I was talking about was “mainly used by Valley types”, and why should journalists invest time in a platform when the majority of readers of more conservative titles don’t use it? It’s a recurring question – so much
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