And yea, it is written that when four or more editorial execs are gathered together to forward plan the coverage of an impending Happening, one among them will, at some point, spake thusly: "We should do a liveblog". And everyone else nods while secretly wishing they had suggested it, and the suggestee gains immense Multimedia... Continue Reading →
A brief surge of interest FriendFeed
FriendFeed is back on the radar, although not necessarily mine. I've had an account since it launched and never really been able to sustain the enthusiasm. The other problem is that it's intermittently blocked on my work internet, so simply logging on can be a small triumph. Anyway, recently the site has had an overhaul... Continue Reading →
Using Slideshare for a blog post
A while ago I wrote a blog post on the lifecycle of a news story, that our editorial training editor suggested I turn into slides, as a potential teaching tool.I messed around with the idea and then showed my attempt to an old mate, Glyn Mottershead, Professional Tutor in Newspaper Journalism at Cardiff University and... Continue Reading →
Why protect your Twitter updates?
I've found my Twitter followers are growing quite rapidly recently, probably as connectors such as Mr Tweet and Twellow become more widely used.I follow quite of lot of them back (unless they only update via an automatic feed telling Twitter they've blogged) as I like having a widening conversation circle - but there are a... Continue Reading →
Why are users leaving Plurk?
I signed up to Plurk, the quirky microblog that allows threaded conversations, shared photos, links and videos, more or less at its launch and I've been a staunch supporter ever since, despite the fact that it's a rather odd looking beast.But lately Plurk has gone into a decline, and now it seems as though it's... Continue Reading →
Flickr group widget
Can't think why I haven't done a widget of the Daily Post's Flickr group before but I had two minutes spare and so I made one up quickly. And it did, literally, take two minutes. It's one of the easiest ways of sharing content and it also brightens up my iGoogle. Good old Widgetbox...I think... Continue Reading →
Testing BubblePLY on video news stories
When I was a young reporter on a paper Down South a colleague once revealed, in hushed tones, that: "Our IT system puts the 'IT' in shit". Not necessarily fair, but very funny... and sometimes trying to work with new web apps on internal system set-ups designed to be suspicious can lead to exasperations. This... Continue Reading →
Achieving a more transparent newsroom
Sometimes it's easy to forget how far away the ethos of Web 2.0 is from traditional journalism.As a trainee I learned I had to always protect my sources of information; there's an unwritten rule that a journalist should generally imply the story on the front page has been obtained purely through painstaking, journalistic endeavour.This is... Continue Reading →
Sharing videos on Twitter with Ffwd
My heart sank when I opened up the Google Reader after a busy few days; more than 1,500 items is way too many to be able to keep on top of with a quick scan through. So I weighed up the work/life balance and MAAR-ed without a backward glance - apart from Mashable's feed, which... Continue Reading →
Testing FineTuna
I've been playing around with a new web app that lets you upload, comment on and share photos easily. It's called FineTuna and it is such a simple way of telling a story. I've tried it out on a photo of the Yellow Submarine outside Liverpool John Lennon Airport (which was taken by Neil Shenton... Continue Reading →
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