Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
Given that curation is the new black*, or at least a popular, effective way to tell stories, the number of tools caluclated to help with gathering and presenting information rises every week.Since I have accounts with any number of them of them, albeit mostly unused, and happened to be using Storify for work today, I... Continue Reading →
I saw an update on Twitter today that read: Editors: 'Traditional skills more important than new media' with a link that I clicked, and it took me to this Press Gazette story. (I appreciate the above isn't an award-winning opening sentence but bear with me, all will become clear I hope...)So once I'd clicked my link and visited... Continue Reading →
Hashtags give me headaches.Not the #somethinghasjusthappenedandIamtweetingit hashtag or the #iamaddingahashtaginanironicwayhere or even #myfootballteamisplayingandIwanttofeelpartofthetribe - it’s the interesting hashtags that are being shouted into a void that perplex me.Curation is an important word for journalism at the moment; we’re all about the curating of content and adding context around it. But hashtags often do little add... Continue Reading →
How do you moderate a community on Facebook? Should the same policy exist as for a title's website moderation or do the disparate fans and friends it has there require different handling?I use Facebook for content, for sharing information, for instant polls, news gathering and just taking the temperature of the public mood on an... Continue Reading →
I was thinking about the importance of attribution today after reading Mike Glover's take on the issue in his post on the coverage of Bin Laden's death and the "outrageous gullibility of the media in the wake of the Bin Laden incident".It's a thought-provoking piece of writing and well worth a read. (Also, incident is a great word,... Continue Reading →
Explosion at an industrial site off Rover Way in Cardiff. Locals said a gas pipe blew up about 8.30am, but it was still blazing away when I drove round there. Lots of smoke - and lots of people watching it burn.UPDATE... (6/3/11)Nipped out to buy the papers this morning and saw a black plume of... Continue Reading →
Pearltrees could be an interesting take on curated and collaborative storytelling. I discovered the site via Mo Krochmal, who hade made a paella tree using the Flash tool, and I liked the idea so much I wanted to try it out.Basically, Pearltrees allows users to collaborate on just about anything that exists online. I've found... Continue Reading →
This is not so much of a new post as a republishing of something that already exists on a third party site but there is a reason for it beyond lazy blogging.Yesterday, I found myself rummaging through Delicious as I needed to use various Twitter tools I've either used or which have featured on, for... Continue Reading →
Back in October I wrote a guest blog post for Glyn Mottishead's online and mobile journalism blog for his students, about how site searches could be a useful tool for journalists, I found the draft post again in my Google Docs the other day and thought, since some things had moved on since that was... Continue Reading →
I think this little Xtranormal skit has gone around the world twice now but it did make me Laugh Out Loud twice. Much as I like Xtranormal, I hadn't used it in a while because it was pretty limited but when I logged in again today I see there are a host of new character... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 