Having worked for the BBC News Entertainment website for a decade, Darryl Chamberlain took voluntary redundancy and set up the widely successful 853 Blog. As part of the Hyperlocal Voices series he shares some of the secrets of his success. 1) Who where the people behind the blog, and what where their backgrounds? 853’s all mine. My background’s actually in
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Tonight I had the pleasure of chairing an extremely informative panel discussion on data and the future of journalism at the first London Linked Data Meetup. On the panel were: Martin Belam (Information Architect, The Guardian; blogger, Currybet) John O’Donovan (Chief Architect, BBC News Online) Dan Brickley (Friend of a Friend project; VU University, Amsterdam; SpyPixel Ltd; ex-W3C) Leigh Dodds (Talis) What
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I’ve very quickly created a Yahoo! Pipes mashup for today’s council and London mayor elections in the UK. All it does at the moment is take the RSS feed for Tweetscan searches for ‘election’, ‘voted’, ‘voting’, ‘vote’, ‘Ken Livingstone‘ and ‘Boris Johnson‘, gets rid of duplicate results, and spits out a feed. UPDATE: Now it also takes feeds from Google
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On the evening of Thursday May 29th I’ll be at ‘Power Your Business with Web 2.0′, on a discussion panel. That’s at the Technology Innovation Centre in Birmingham B4 7XG from 6pm till 10pm. Email creative.networks@tic.ac.uk or register online at www.creativenetworksonline.com On Friday June 13th I’ll be in London at the Investigative Journalism Goes Global conference at Westminster University. The
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