Feb 9, 2010
February 9th, 2010 by Paul Bradshaw
I’m kicking off the second semester of my MA in Online Journalism this week with a session on audio. As part of the preparation for that I’ve been looking at ‘micropodcasting‘, speaking to Mark Rock, the founder of Audioboo, and Christian Payne – better known as Documentally - who is a great user of the micropodcasting form. I thought it might be useful to post their thoughts here:
I asked Mark Rock what sort of boos (recordings) proved popular on the site. He listed the following: [Read more]
Jan 28, 2009
January 28th, 2009 by Paul Bradshaw
UPDATE: From the comments: similar lists now available for Norway and Sweden.
I will soon begin teaching my annual module in Online Journalism and one of the first things I get the students to do is set up a Twitter account. It’s often a struggle to demonstrate the usefulness of Twitter, so this time around, in addition to following each other, I’m going to give them 10 people to start following from the off. This is the list I’ve come up with – would welcome your suggestions for others:
- @davelee - former journalism student and excellent blogger who landed a plum job at the BBC after graduating. Get the point?
- @channel4news - example of how a news organisation can use Twitter in a personal, conversational way, rather than simply republishing its RSS feed (see also: @r4news, @mashable) [Read more]
Micropodcasting – an overview through the eyes of two practitioners