Archive for the 'Journalism' Category

Meet the Newspaperers:

Friday, April 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Click here for a fine series of posts on how some news is now being provided by people writing things called newspapers.  Hat tip NUJ Newmedia blog.

Newsvisual

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

If you missed this fine link on D’Log here it is.

Truth in journalism.

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

If I spent an hour on a story I would end up with a ‘truth’ that represented 60 minutes of effort. A week of effort would yield a 7 days of ‘truth’. What the facts mean is always subjective, regardless of the solidity of those facts.

Good journalism chases honesty, not truth. Honesty is a [...]

Homo Ludens - we evolve through play.

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

I didn’t understand this until I checked here. Now I do and I like it a lot. Homo Ludens suceeds through play.

Hat tip Jon Bounds. Original source Emergent Game.

UK Government starts live blogging summits:

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Simon has just started the first official live blog of a UK summit here. Now press accredit a bunch of other bloggers (if you haven’t already).

Read this please…

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »

The West Midlands leads the digital way, well our politicians seem to be up for it. Comment at Tom Watson:
today I am announcing the establishment of the Power of Information Taskforce. I’m pleased to say that Richard Allan has agreed to Chair the Taskforce. Richard has a vast breadth of knowledge in this field. He’s [...]

Quick, quick, slow media.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Paul Caplan responded to this comment I made yesterday on this blog post with this explanation of what he thinks slow media is and why it matters. Thanks Paul. For taking the time.

Downing Tweet: is this about the personal, celebrity or patronage?

Friday, March 28th, 2008 | 12 Comments »

There has been a lot of interest in Downing Street joining Twitter. But does it really mean much, or anything, that’s new?

At the moment number 10 is using it predominantly as a means to feed us links to press releases plus the odd Youtube film. Very good.

Within less than 24 hours 178 people [...]