Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
I follow Amy Gahran on Twitter, and she's a constant source of information and humour. I'm a fan of the way she operates and thinks, and so I subscribe to her Contentious.com feed in my Google Reader. Last month she brought me tales of naked Trick or Treaters, this week I learn, courtesy of her... Continue Reading →
Gary Vaynerchuk, of Wine Library, gave a talk on Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape at the recent Web 2.0 Expo NY. He's a bit shrill at times but it's worth presevering I think.Here are some of his points: Becoming a brand"The place where we play is very real and it is a... Continue Reading →
While I was in New York my invite to preview the upcoming incarnation of Dipity dropped in the inbox. Which sorta killed me, as I wanted to start playing with it immediately - but I had Manhattan's shops all around me. In the end Manhattan (and my marriage) won but now I'm back home I've... Continue Reading →
I'd love to know how many of the UK's regional newspapers have run liveblogs this year; it seems as though real-time coverage and participation in almost everything (public spectacles, event TV, sports, political rallies to name a few) is on the increase when it was hardly in evidence 12 months ago.I've been pondering this as... Continue Reading →
It started, as so many things do nowadays, with a tweet. Mark Commerford suggested to me there was a blog post in social networks and the different ways a journalist might use them - and keep track of them.So I sat down and started thinking about what network tools I use most often, and what... Continue Reading →
The nice thing about my Tweet Cloud - as far as I'm concerned - is that my friends are in the biggest type, which makes them my most frequent and important tweets. That's how it should be...
La Princess left the Echo Arena on Friday night and moved through the crowds to the Pier Head - walking straight past me. It was an amazing experience...... but what made it even more brilliant was that reporting the event on the hoof was so simple. Along with VJs for the Post&Echo at the event,... Continue Reading →
I rediscovered a link on my Delicious recently, called the Lifecycle of a Blog, from Wired, which traces how a post goes from the author's keyboard through the system into a subscriber's RSS reader. It's here if you're interested.Anyway, that sent me off on a bit of a tangent; I started wondering about the lifecycle... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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