Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Today is a good day; I have successfully built a working Yahoo Pipe.It's not especially pretty but it is, I think, quite clever; it filters all the latest news, photos and quality blog posts from the world of Fashion for the Girls Behaving Stylishly team to place on their blog as a widget, and to... Continue Reading →
Honestly... sometimes I do think that I should just follow the Daily Mail and write blog posts that tell how Britney Spears is launching a new line in panties which Paris Hilton is going to model.Yes, in the wonderful world of SEO the three above phrases picked out in bold would almost guarantee a good... Continue Reading →
Mobile post sent by Alison using Utterz. Replies. mp3
This took a couple of hours and I had hundreds of stories and photos to choose from. I've just used an intro and then linked back to the story on wwww.liverpooldailypost.co.ukI've blogged about how much I liked the idea of using Dipity to tell stories before, so I figured I ought to put my money... Continue Reading →
I can't really contribute much to the raging debate on Twitter and UK SMS withdrawal on a personal level as I'm probably one of the few that doesn't mind paying something towards receiving update tweets on my phone. I have only a handful of people on SMS alert updates to the phone anyway - I... Continue Reading →
How does a newspaper define an Exclusive? Is it a story it has to itself; a story it publishes before anyone else, or - on occasions - a story the publisher is sole owner of because, frankly, no other media outlet cares?The Online Dictionary defines exclusive as: * Not divided or shared with others *... Continue Reading →
UPDATE 2013: SpinVox subsequently closed down I've got another option for updating my status on various social networks now.I've been using SpinVox as a way of turning my phone voicemail into text alerts for a long time - it's so much more convenient to read my message as a text than have endles voicemails to... Continue Reading →
That's the question I've been asking people on a nifty website Nath from Travel Weekly discovered and shared on Plurk today. It's called ask500people.com and allows you to pose questions - multiple choice, comment-enabled, photos etc - which visitors to the site can respond to. I've not got 500 people yet and don't expect to... Continue Reading →
Timelines have been used by newspapers for years to help lead readers through the twists and turns of a complicated, long-running saga. This, for me, is just another way of doing the same thing.I've used Dipity and the Daily Post's Flickr group photos of Capital of Culture events to tell the story-so-far of Liverpool's Culture... Continue Reading →
Just a quick example of why I like Plurk. I took this photo when I was trapped in stationary traffic on my morning commute. The whole package - rain, cones and queues - summed up what a great start to the day I was having. The Shozu app on my N95 automatically sent the photo... Continue Reading →
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