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[Keyword: , ]. What’s happened to the Press Gazette /discuss section? I was just about to comment on the latest piece in the print paper (‘Mainstream media must show respect for the new kid on the blog’) only to find the link at Press Gazette now goes straight to the AOL homepage.

So, no copying and pasting, no linking, and because I have other stories to blog (and a bathroom to strip) Press Gazette (and AOL) lose the opportunity to get a few more hits.

The piece in a nutshell focuses on Daily Mail columnist Keith Waterhouse’s “distaste for bloggers” but that this changes “when it comes to photo bloggers. Citizen journalism suddenly becomes worthwhile, even respectable, if the blogger has a camera.”

Interestingly, given that the issue was debated at yesterday’s Citizen Journalism conference, Waterhouse is quoted as saying

“This Damascus U-turn took place in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s
execution, when the pictures began to come in.

“You will recall that the reports originally had it that the death sentence was carried out with as much decorum and dignity as such gruesome rituals allow.

“No Western reporters were present – the BBC’s John Simpson was asked along to the necktie party by the Iraqi leader himself, but was turned away.

“The bloggers were there, though, armed with picture-snatching mobile phone cameras. The official photo coverage, taken to convince the world that the monster had indeed paid the price, were grisly enough.

“The bloggers’ contribution – grabbed at the gallows either by a mini-mob of gleeful Shia interlopers or by the condemned prisoner’s guards themselves – shocked all right-thinking people.”

Thankfully, because Waterhouse’s piece is available online, I can quote at length.

Well, you may not be able to discuss it at Press Gazette, but feel free to discuss it here.

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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media

Sky and social networking?

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[Keyword: , , ]. Journalism.co.uk is reporting on plans by Sky for “a video-based social networking website with Google”:

“Asked if it will have a creative or news-based focus, Mr Wright said it could be a ‘combination of those things’. However, he added that the site would not follow either the MySpace or Bebo social network formulas – thus offering the possibility of something wholly unique.”

But possibly more interesting is the note that “Google also agreed to provide search and targeted search advertising, email, messenger and VoIP telephony.” While social networking is relatively new and difficult to get right, facilities such as these could make a difference to the user experience and, more importantly, advertisers.

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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media

Welcome to the Online Journalism Blog

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Well, I’ve been blogging for almost three years blogging about online journalism at http://ojournalism.blogspot.com/, but decided the time had come to move from Blogger to WordPress. If you’ve never seen the old Online Journalism Blog, I write about online journalism, citizen journalism, blogging, podcasts, vodcasts, interactive storytelling, publishing, Computer Assisted Reporting, searching and all things internet. For the most part this tends to be scrapbook-style quick links to relevant stories with (I hope informed) comment, but when I have the time I post more extensive analysis and reviews.

For a while I’ll be running both blogs together as I figure out how to make this one do what the other one did (all that time spent on email feeds, mailing lists, CSS styles, blogrolls…). In the meantime you might want to check out my sister site for a Citizen Journalism conference I organised at http://citizenjournalism.wordpress.com/

Citizen Journalism conference blog

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[Keyword: , , , ]. Well, the Citizen Journalism 2007 conference finally took place today. Michael Hill, Trinity Mirror’s Head of Multimedia, spoke of the group’s “garlic bread moment” in converting to the new media age, while blogger Tom Reynolds talked of the power of the blogosphere, as well as its self-regulating nature. Vicky Taylor, the BBC’s Head of Interactivity, outlined the organisation’s approach to user generated content, and the whole was riddled with extensive questioning and debate.

You’ll find some coverage already at Journalism.co.uk (Trinity Mirror launches ultra-local citizen journalism sites), but for more on the speeches take a look at the conference blog at http://citizenjournalism.wordpress.com/ – which I’ll be adding to later – and there’s a conference wiki at http://citizenjournalism.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome which anyone can contribute to.

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Journalism stories: A multimedia approach

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[Keyword: , , , ]. Great series of articles from Mindy McAdams on how to approach interactive storytelling – well worth spending some time on:
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List of guidelines for the BBC’s Web 2.0 project

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For some reason I am unable to log in to my Blogger account from work, and so am having to post this via email. So, forgive me if this doesn’t read as smoothly as it could:
 
Quick link for today: Tomski’s list of guidelines for the BBC’s Web 2.0 project. My favourite guideline: “5. Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don’t restrict your creativity to your own site.”
 

 

Web sites for citizen journalism techniques, tutorials

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[Keyword: , , , ]. A list of resources from Danny Sanchez that’s worth browsing if you’re interested in the CJ arena – particularly OurMedia Personal Media Learning Center: “A great resource containing interviews with citizen media pioneers, summaries of media law and more.”

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PCC to regulate newspaper audio and video

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[Keyword: , ]. Journalism.co.uk reports on the move by the PCC to extend its regulation to cover newspaper audio and video, with chairman Sir Christopher Meyer quoted as saying: “We have now persuaded the newspaper and magazine industry of the United Kingdom to agree also the principle of our regulating moving pictures and sound on newspaper’s websites […] we are going to make an announcement, I hope, pretty soon in the next few weeks about exactly what that entails – there are some definitions to be sorted out – but it’s a major step forward, and it’s the first time, I think, that newspapers have voluntarily agreed without outside pressure to extend the remit of regulation through the PCC.”

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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media

A glossary of online news terms

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[Keyword: , ]. The Online Journalism Review have started a potentially very useful glossary of online news terms on their site – and in admirable fashion, have made it a wiki that registered users can edit.

I’ve been in there and said my bit, adding user generated content, crowdsourcing, podcast, vodcast, vlogs, moblogs, photoblogs, CMS, and ‘wiki’ itself – and just to be a pedant, I’ve changed the headings from being simply bold (meaningless), to actually using heading tags (h3, if you must know). I’ll be claiming my percentage when the OJR’s search engine rankings improve.

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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media

The most popular news video clips online

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[Keyword: , , .] 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.

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Paul Bradshaw lectures on the Journalism degree at UCE Birmingham media department. He writes a number of blogs including the Online Journalism Blog, Interactive PR and Web and New Media