Archive for May, 2010

An experiment tonight in joining up politics #onlinepolitics

Tonight I’m doing an experiment to create a conversation about politics across several different niches, with the idea of trying to broaden political debate.

My aim is to help pull together different aspects of politics and media – including campaigning, technology skills, scrutiny, how to report to a high standard, and local reporting – as a way of helping build participation online.

That’s a big subject, so I’m starting with one aspect that I can grab hold of and which should be of wide interest – making some income from political or other blogs – and a twitter chat on the hashtag #onlinepolitics from 9pm to 10pm, which will be captured on my blog using Cover It Live.

There is an introductory article for this chat published earlier today here, as a “starter for ten”.

Anyone is welcome to watch or join in.

I am @mattwardman on twitter.

Crowdsourcing an investigation: interview with The Faster Times’ Nathan Hegedus

The Faster Times have been experimenting with crowdsourcing as with their users they investigate the backgrounds of own brand foods (that is, foods which are sold under the brand of a supermarket, e.g. ‘Tesco cornflakes’). I spoke to Nathan Hegedus who is overseeing the investigation: Listen!

Do users really want to pay for separate Times and Sunday Times sites?

The Times and Sunday Times have launched their new paywalled sites at  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/ and http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/. But while the sites have some good features, which I was shown at a preview last night, I still can’t work out why users would want to pay for two different websites covering the same subjects … What’s on offer? The plan is to replace
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Hyperlocal news in Denmark: one editor’s experiences

For a guest post for the Online Journalism Blog, I invited Henriette Pilegaard, Editor (citizen journalism and social media) for JydskeVestkysten to talk about her experiences of setting up a hyperlocal news network in Denmark. 2008: Citizen Journalism In January 2008, while changing the techical platform behind JV.DK to one with web 2.0 possibilities, JydskeVestkysten moved into citizen journalism. In an
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Zoe Margolis wins Libel Damages for a headline on her own article

The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday that Zoe Margolis, who as Abby Lee wrote the “Girl with a One-Track Mind” sex blog and book, will receive damages from the Independent on Sunday over a headline attached to an article she had written herself. I can only find a printed version of the article:

Her Lawyer, Lucy Moorman, told the High Court in London that on March 7th the newspaper published an article by Miss Margolis, who writes under the pen name Abby Lee, but added to it was the headline, “I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”.

Miss Moorman said: “This headline was written by the newspaper not by the claimant.” The headline featured in the newspaper and on the website, she said.

#Jeecamp 2010: Closing keynote: Stewart Kirkpatrick, founder, Caledonian Mercury

#Jeecamp 2010: Panel: What does the election result mean for publishers and startups?

#Jeecamp 2010: (fringe) Nigel Barlow on InsidetheM60

Jeecamp 2010: (fringe) The MA’s at Birmingham City University

#Jeecamp 2010: (breakout) Newsgathering and Production