The LDP Live day is winding down now - unless there's some breaking news - and I've had two minutes to catch my breath. So I thought I'd just jot down my thoughts on the live blog while they're fresh. I know some of those who took part followed Francois Nel's suggestion of noting how... Continue Reading →
Taking the LDP live for a day
Tuesday May 13 will be the day I go grey, bite off all my nails, and possibly take up smoking again.For Tuesday is the day the LDP goes live for a day. From 7am when the first stories are uploaded to http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk until 1am when the last page is sent down to the press room,... Continue Reading →
So much to think about…
The week at the Editorial Leaders course in Preston always requires some Thought Downloading afterwards, and I'm going to probably use Bambuser to (semi)articulate them after I've had a good night's kip.But for me there have been some real standout moments this week - for various reasons. Here are, in no particular order, mine: 1.... Continue Reading →
Too much information?
I am spreading over the web like mould. I am on, among others, Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, Jaiku, and Bambuser and that's just a part of it. My 'social networks' folder is growing at an alarming rate.I embarked on this to learn more about the internet and interact with people online because I thought it would... Continue Reading →
Using Utterz more often
UPDATE 2013: Utterz became Utterli and then closed. Try Ipadio or Audioboo instead. I love Utterz - I think it's a great website and I want to start using it more often than the once-a-week I've been stuck at recently. It's very interactive, you get to hear the tone of someone's voice as they make... Continue Reading →
Befriending FriendFeed
A couple of days ago I tweeted to the world in general that Friendfeed - which I joined several weeks ago in a flush of enthusiasm - was "more complicated than a social network had any right to be".And I was picked up on my gripe by Trinity Mirror's digital supremo David Black, who pointed... Continue Reading →
Exploring YouTube
I've never really bothered much with YouTube. Clips get sent to my Facebook superwall which I may or may not watch, and that's about it. But the Liverpool Daily Post site is hugely popular, and I figured that I ought to at least try and understand how YouTube works - and why it works. So... Continue Reading →
Words and pictures
I started this blog with the aim of testing out different ways of telling news stories but I wasn't sure what that would entail. Looking at it now, it's got so much mad furniture going on around the actual words it's more like a small child's attempt at communication than anything else. But you know... Continue Reading →
Fire alarm via SpinVox
UPDATE 2013: SpinVox subsequently closed downWell we had a fire alarm in the office today which nobody knew anything about but it was the prefect opportunity to practice streaming via qik on my mobile phone and it worked really well. I just need to work out now how to embed it the blog site because... Continue Reading →
Speaking Freely
"This is my first post to the blog from my mobile phone. My colleague Toby Chapman told me about SpinVox Service which apparently should allow this to be relayed onto blog directly. If it doesn't then it just means that I've buggered up the mobile phone and I have to start again from scratch but... Continue Reading →
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