A few weeks back I wrote about my ‘network infrastructure’ – the combination of social networks, an RSS reader and social bookmarking that can underpin a person’s journalism work. As I said there, the social bookmarking element is the one that people often fail to get, so I wanted to further illustrate how I use Delicious specifically, with a case
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For some years now, I have started every online journalism course I teach with an introduction to three key tools: RSS readers, social networks, and social bookmarking. These are, I believe, the basis of a network infrastructure which few modern journalists – whatever their platform – can do without. The word ‘network’ is key here – because I believe one
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Despite the incredible work done on the spreadsheet comparing social bookmarking services I am yet to find one that does everything that I use Delicious for (background here). One service I have been using, however, is Trunk.ly. Once you’ve imported your existing bookmarks from Delicious Trunk.ly stores any new ones you bookmark on Delicious, keeping the backup up to date. In
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UPDATE: I’ve created a spreadsheet where you can add information about the various services and requirements. Please add what you can. Delicious, it appears, is going to be closed down. I am hugely sad about this – Delicious is possibly the most useful tool I use as a journalist, academic and writer. Not just because of the way it makes
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In January I made the following presentation to the Association for Journalism Education, talking about how digital technologies can be used to facilitate research. Let me know if you have had any similar experiences with using digital technologies in research yourself. New approaches to research in a digital age View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: paulbradshaw wikis)
The Sun has had more submissions to Fark, the social news site, than any other UK newspaper. The Guardian is second.
The Guardian has had more stories submitted to Reddit.com than any other major newspaper site.
The Daily Telegraph has more stories submitted to Digg, the social news website, than any other daily newspaper site.
All self-respecting newspaper sites have share and social-bookmarking functionality, such as links to Digg, Reddit, Fark etc. But if the results of StumbleUpon are typical then: Times Online is miles ahead of its rivals when it comes to users sharing / bookmarking its pages. The FT has a lot of work to do. Adding icons for an individual service makes
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