Archive for the viral Tag

Did The Guardian miss a viral opportunity with their Ultimate Summer Pop Quiz?

Last Friday the Guardian published it’s ‘Ultimate Summer Pop Quiz’ – a typically original take on the pop quiz format with a gloriously, insanely difficult set of over 100 questions such as “The opening lines of which post-punk song were inspired by the above passage from Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky?” Having only managed 31 answers (and 24
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A web presence without a website?

Charlotte Dunckley is a final year journalism degree students who has already launched a fanzine and is in the process of turning it into a commercially viable magazine – Things. She recently popped in for an ad hoc tutorial and I asked her about her web strategy. “I don’t have a website,” she replied. “But you have a blog?” “Yes.”
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JEEcamp – when the cottage news industry met mainstream media

What happens when you bring together local journalists, bloggers, web publishers, online journalism experts and new media startups – and get them talking? That was the question that JEEcamp sought to answer: an ‘unconference’ around journalism enterprise and entrepreneurship that looked to tackle some of the big questions facing news in 2008: how do you make money from news when
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Reading Evening Post – we generated more hits to their video than they did. In two days.

Two days ago I blogged about some bad newspaper video from the Reading Evening Post, and ended “Let’s see if I can generate more views from this blog than from their own site – at least it will prove the value of making your video embeddable.” As of today the video has received 145 visits via this blog compared to
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The most popular news video clips online

[Keyword: journalism, online journalism, video journalism.] How have I missed this before? The Guardian have been featuring a chart of viral news videos since November, with weekly commentary by Jemima Kiss. Well worth bookmarking. Save this story on del.icio.us / Digg this story Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of
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