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 →
Tweet Cloud
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...
Giant spider in liverpool
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 →
The Lifecycle of a News Story
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 →
Everton FC’s stadium plan for Kirkby on Dipity
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 →
Using Dipity to tell a news story
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 →
Learning social media on YouTube
This is one of the most amazing videos I've found on YouTube, created by Professor Mike Wesch, assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology and Kansas State University, I stumbled across it a while ago, saved it to Del.icio.us and then, well, it filed it away in the back of my brain. But happily I rediscovered it... Continue Reading →
Just why are Flickr’s online communities so good?
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 →
Networks and Journalism
It's six months this week since I started spreading myself over the internet's social sites in an attempt to shift my analogue brain up a gear.I came home from a TM Leaders course last January shocked by my ignorance of Web 2.0 opportunities, and determined to do something about it. It started as a mild... Continue Reading →
Plurk is the new Twitter? Maybe
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 →
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