Journalism, leadership and the realities of change
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 →
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 →
I've been agonising over how newspapers can build successful online communities in a couple recent posts, notably here. And while I don't want to drone on, I'm returning to the subject as I forgot about one flourishing website/newspaper/audience collaboration that's doing just fine, thanks very much. The Liverpool Daily Post's Flickr 08 group was set... Continue Reading →
This is a great tool! It's Dipity's TimeTube, which basically lets you search for keyword tags on YouTube and displays the findings on a timeline, a la Plurk (but left to right this time).The Liverpool FC one works particularly well (lots of great goals for fan bloggers, for example) but I've plumped for Mathew Street... Continue Reading →
A while ago I got an invite to a social bookmarking site called Mento by egrommet, who gives new meaning to the phrase 'early adopter'. It's still in beta (isn't everything nowadays?) but I've been using it for just over a month and I have to say, it's taken over from Digg and Del.icio.us as... Continue Reading →
At around 7.30am on June 2 I read a tweet by Chris Brogan saying he'd joined Plurk. Now he is a seriously switched-on person so by 7.35am on June 2 I was attempting my first PlurkBy 8am today I was a little more familiar with the whole concept... and I have spent a day gradually... Continue Reading →
It was a beautiful day at West Kirby - sun, sea, people's dogs hurling themselves into the marine lake after balls, perfect for streaming on Qik in fact. Erm no. It sounds like an excerpt from that Twister film where cows get picked up and hurled around by tornados. So, today I learned: Streaming without... Continue Reading →
This is a reply to Alison Gows´utter on newspapers building communitieshttp://www.utterz.com/…Mw/utt.phpmarkmedia's Mobile post sent by Alison using Utterz. Replies. mp3I posted Markmedia's reply to my Utterz here because it's actually a far more lucid and interesting answer than my ramble deserved. Mark makes an excellent point about newspapers having to become a hub; I was talking to... Continue Reading →
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