Archive for February, 2009

Experiences in social media from the Birmingham Post’s Jo Geary

Insightful presentation from Development Editor Jo Geary on some of the lessons she’s learned while building the Birmingham Post’s presence in social media. You can also find it on her blog here. Birmingham Post: A Regional Newspaper Case Study View more presentations from joannageary. (tags: media journalism)

Guardian tops Reddit submissions list

The Guardian has had more stories submitted to Reddit.com than any other major newspaper site.

Twitterfall – a perfect Twitter interface for journalists?

Twitterfall has been around for a month now, and if you’re a journalist, this is a must-see – for about ten minutes. Then it becomes a must-use. Yes, this is Yet Another Twitter Interface. But.

What I see in my gmail this evening

My iPhone’s gmail is full of messages today.

Still on the NUJ new media debate

I hope the ‘lively debate’ is over by now.

NUJ new media debate

Currently, there is a debate going on the NUJ Newmedia email forum. I got inspired to do this Wordle chart. How do I make the word ‘Effing’ big’?

USA Today’s awesome jobs forecast interactive

  Here’s a hugely rich interactive from USA Today which does a number of things very well. Firstly, it’s an intelligent use of resources: the recession is likely to last for some time, and be the biggest ongoing story of our time. With everyone talking about it, you need something with that ‘wow’ factor, that will not only attract a great
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How to build an iPhone app

You may have seen this on Mashable, but equally, you may not, so I thought I’d pass it on. Demonstrating the value of being open about your processes (because this document will now be viewed by thousands of people), PhotoKast created this 37-page guide to how they developed their iPhone app. Very useful reading if you’re thinking of doing something for iPhones. Building
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The day-to-day activities of a web editor. In summary

After years writing for both print and web, I decided to express myself in a different way. I’ve done photojournalism for some time now, but I need another form of expression to convey humour in my narration. Photography is cool, but much too refined for lampoons (feel free to disagree with me). Paul pointed me to a few websites on
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Writing/producing for the web: BASIC principles of online journalism (Online journalism lesson #3)

Here’s the 3rd in my series of classes in online journalism. Having already set up an RSS readers and Delicious account, a Twitter account and a blog, this week they start the news website, and learn about writing and producing for the web: Writing/production for the web – BASIC principles View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: conversation bcu)