Given that Roy Greenslade has beaten me to blogging about my own event, I thought I’d better go ahead and blog about it here. I’m talking about JEEcamp of course – a conference-cum-unconference about journalism experimentation and enterprise. Put another way, if you read this blog, the sort of stuff I talk about. It’s on May 21st at The Bond
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On Monday I attended The Big Debate, an event organised by Birmingham City University with The NEC Group and the Birmingham Post that tasked itself with the question “Can the Midlands’ creative industries revolutionise the UK economy?” The question itself became less interesting to me than the reaction to the debate from the social media scene in Birmingham. That Twitter stream
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Paid content online is a dead end, say the founders of Rue89 and Demotix.
-If you want people to buy your content, you need to provide a lot of added value and that is very expensive. The paid content will never cover you expenses, says Pierre Haski, one of the founder of the French online-only news site Rue89.
Last week I spoke at the BBC College of Journalism’s Future of Journalism conference about the future newsroom, and the News Diamond specifically. Chair Louise Minchin asked the following question: did these new production processes mean journalists would become more passive? It is a great question. On the surface that’s what would appear to be happening: in posting alerts and blog
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I’ll be at the Society of Editors conference in Bristol on Monday. I’m promised wifi so I’ll try to Twitter away and Qik too if a suitable opportunity arises. If you’ll be there too, let me know in the comments below, or on Twitter.
On Friday I’m on a panel at Blog08, an international bloggers’ conference in Amsterdam. The topic is blogs and journalism. The conference will be taking questions posted on De Nieuwe Reporter (the new reporter), an online platform for Dutch journalists, but they’d also like to take questions from the panellists’ blog readers. So… got a question you’d like to pose?
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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