Free Post drawnalism Open Data Camp 5: looking back A few weeks ago, I did a weekend’s liveblogging at Open Data Camp 5 in Belfast, alongside the team from Drawnalism. Matt has written the event up on the
Free Post city university Fake News - and how to fix it: a journalism debate at City University, London Liveblogged notes from the “Fake News” event at City University, co-organised by The Media Society and the Student Publication Association. Prone to error, inaccuracy, horrible typos and screaming crimes against
Free Post Brilliant Noise Joining the Dots I’m spending today liveblogging Brilliant Noise’s Dots conference, as curated by the lovely Neil Perkin. The posts will be going up on the Dots conference site, not here. I’ll add links to the posts here, as and when I get the
Free Post academic research Journalistic liveblogging analysed: a Polis report Some time ago I was interviewed by Karin O’Mahony about liveblogging and its use in a journalistic context. The report was published a little over a month ago, and I’ve finally had the chance to dive in. First of all – a caveat.
Free Post Blue Light Camp Unconference liveblogging at BlueLightCamp Liveblogging from Blue Light Camp 2014 with Matt Buck and Drawnalism
Free Post journalism Reddit as a journalistic liveblogging platform This is a really interesting development: Reddit is working to facilitate journalistic liveblogging activity on the site. [Reddit has…] become a place where new forms of journalism occur, such as the reporting on breaking news events like a shooting or the war in Syria.
Free Post city university Liveblogging commuter misery Ah, synchronicity. Today, I’m working with the newspaper and interactive MA students at City University on liveblogging. And there’s a tube strike. So, of course, some of them are liveblogging the tube strike…
Free Post blogging Lightweight blogging and heavyweight beer Nice to see that someone else has found my lightweight mobile blogging kit suggestsions useful. Billy Abbot will be live beer blogging with a very similar setup – and what could be more satisfying than that?
Free Post cameras Lightweight Liveblogging Kit Monday’s Hacks/Hackers Brighton was my opportunity to test-drive a lightweight liveblogging kit. I’m used to lugging around a MacBook Pro and a Canon DSLR with a few lenses for liveblogging – two bodies, if it’s a paid gig. It’s overkill
Free Post leweb LeWeb London Day Two Day two of LeWeb London is kicking off today. Freed of the nursery run, I’m here for the whole day. Liveblogging ahead…
Free Post Le Web London: liveblogging the sharing economy Gosh, Le Web time already? Yup – it’s now held twice a year. Summer’s Le Web is held in the UK. While it’s smaller than the main Parisian event, it still brings together an inetresting mix of European and intercontinental digerati for
Free Post cities #RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal‘s talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he’s going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible? Tha answer’s grim: no. But there is a bright side… He’s been
Free Post Rethinking Conference Content Capture - tomorrow's experiment Tomorrow, I’m trying a New Thing. This New Thing will involve Matt Buck of Drawnalism and myself working together to capture content from a conference. I do the words, he does the graphics. If you want to know more about what we’ve
Free Post journalism How the media covered Thatcher's death: liveblogging Patrick Smith Storified the traditional media coverage of Thatcher’s death. The key take-away? Liveblogging is the main way the nationals are covering events like this. It’s odd, because a majority of journalisms still seem to regard liveblogging as a niche activity, whereas
Free Post Paris: the city of the internet of things? It seems slightly unbelieveable that, in just over a week’s time, I’ll be in Paris for Le Web. This year has gone unbelieveably fast, but I’m looking forward to attending for the first time entirely on my own behalf – no agonising
