The 5 Stages of Disruption Denial Disruption is an apellation that's flung around a great deal. Music is a disrupted industry... media is a disrupted industry... But handles get in the way of actually stopping and understanding what that means. Newspapers are in a state of disruption - the dictionary defninition is To throw into confusion... Continue Reading →

How being consistent helped a hyperlocal news site to finally get Facebook Friend and colleague Ed Walker has posted about his decision to get serious with Blog Preston's Facebook page. Although this is about his hyperlocal site, it's good advice for anyone who has a Facebook page for their brand or themselves, and gives detailed... Continue Reading →

Could the great commenting free for all actually make it harder for journalists to do their jobs? | David Higgerson David Higgerson considers some of the (myriad) ways online comments cause difficulties, including giving those characters who prefer not to be held to account by journalists a way to avoid them....  "Unlike a residents association... Continue Reading →

An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Broken The Financial Brand loves its Google Alerts, and it is Not Happy that they are broken with no fix in sight. In this information packed post, it sets out why we should all be concerned about the latest Google glitch "Google has lost touch with its core... Continue Reading →

When People Write for Free, Who Pays? This Gawker article deals with the Nate Thayer/Atlantic fallout but also poses a number of questions that pertain more towards the 'free interns' debate. When does work experience become free labour, and how far should you go to prove yourself in your chosen profession before that profession thinks... Continue Reading →

10 Newspapers that Do It Right 2013 "If the industry has come to learn anything from the Great Recession, it’s that we produce a product, a product that needs to be marketed just as well as — if not better than — any other product. This year’s 10 Newspapers That Do It Right are all... Continue Reading →

Facebook Workers Try to Spend Less Than 1 Second Determining Whether Content Is 'Appropriate' From The Atlantic's piece on an article by Emily Bazelon' - a good glimpse inside the beast that is Facebook "Sullivan cycled through the complaints with striking speed, deciding with very little deliberation which posts and pictures came down, which stayed... Continue Reading →

John Paton: “There will always be a bigger advertising pie than a subscription pie, always” A while ago, someone who shall remain nameless said to be, about a colleague, "he'll never change". It seems to me that is about the most insulting statement you can make about another person - and also the most inaccurate.... Continue Reading →

Should journalists quote from your Twitter, Facebook posts without permission? This is an interesting question from the Post and Courier, Charleston. Do you notify someone if you're going to use their tweet? Industry sites sometimes embed my tweets and I get a surprise when I see them - but I take the view that I've... Continue Reading →

Commenters, We Want You Back - TechCrunch dumps Facebook sign-in for comments The Daily Post website is getting Facebook sign-in later this year for comments. So... this , from TechCrunch, was an interesting read:  " The bullies and asshats left our comments sections, but so did everyone else. Now, several years later, after dozens of... Continue Reading →