From September I will be running an MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University. I hope it’s going to be different from any other journalism MA. That’s because in putting it together I’ve had the luxury of a largely blank canvas, which means I’ve not had to work within the strictures and structures of linear production based courses. The
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That’s the question posed by David Naylor, who says he was told by a “UK Search Marketer” that “they’d been offered (and had paid for) links from the website of a major UK newspaper. At £15,000 it was an expensive buy, but with the national newspaper sites being such huge authority hubs they felt it was worth the money.” Naylor’s post
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Thanks to a prompt from Jemima Kiss, I realised it’s Ada Lovelace day today. Thanks to Suw Charman-Anderson, I’ve signed a pledge to blog about a woman in technology I admire. Well in that sentence alone I’ve already mentioned two. I’ve already blogged about two other women in technology I admire: Jo Geary and danah boyd. So that makes 4. How about
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2 weeks ago the Scottish Sunday Express led with this cover story (PDF) on how the survivors of the Dunblane massacre were turning 18 and – shock, horror – drinking and making rude gestures. Reporter Paula Murray, it seemed, had “managed to inveigle her way into a Facebook friendship with teenagers from the town and write a salacious piece about their “antics”, based on information
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Many of the services that are being developed as part of the ‘semantic web’ are necessarily works in progress, but they all contribute to extending the success of this burgeoning area of technology. There are plenty more popping up all the time, but for the purposes of this post I have loosely grouped some prominent sites into specialities – social
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There are billions of pages of unsorted and unclassified information online, which make up millions of terabytes of data with almost no organisation. It is not necessarily true that some of this information is valuable whilst some is worthless, that’s just a judgement for who desires it. At the moment, the most common way to access any information is through
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On Friday May 8 2009 I’ll be hosting JEEcamp09 – an unconference (or barcamp) for journalism experimenters. Last year’s JEEcamp was great. This year we’re doing it all again, but with some cute ideas to stir things up. These include: Open mic for business models for news: Attendees are invited to explain how they think news can support itself online. 5
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Following on from the previous Something for the Weekend, Twickie, which allows you to collect responses to a question posted on Twitter, this tool allows you to present a conversation – with impressive control. QuoteURL allows you to drag and drop (or copy and paste) Twitter tweet URLs to reconstruct a conversation.
That was the question I posed to the Twittersphere earlier today. And here are the very helpful answers:
Do blogs make reporting restrictions pointless?
Big problem with reporting restrictions & blogs: there’s nothing to stop blogs repeating the information unless they know about the court order. But there’s no way to find out about the court orders.
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