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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Above is an image representing how journalism has traditionally been done: You went and gathered your information You put it all together in an attractive package: the article, the broadcast package And someone else took that to the readers or viewers That linear process is pretty much redundant online. See the diagram below. I’ve found myself drawing this so often
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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
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This was originally published in Press Gazette as Del.icio.us social bookmarking explained and Need some background info? Just follow the electronic trail. How journalists can use web bookmarking services to manage, find and publish documents. Every newspaper has a library, and most journalists have kept some sort of cuttings file for reference. But what if you could search that cuttings
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The Guardian has brought its typical idiosyncratic approach to social bookmarking with the launch of ‘Clippings’. But for once I think they’ve missed the mark. By clicking on the scissors icon () next to a story users can now ‘clip’ an article to their own account. They could do this before anyway – but importantly, the revamped service means they
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