A collection of 7 posts
Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes: But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic…
I’ve written before about the need for journalists to get on top of the new methods of reaching readers – most especially use of social media. If you want another stark example of what failing to do so looks like,…
What happens when you have a video go seriously viral? A media frenzy ensued and ultimately Kim’s video was seen by tens of millions of people around the world. A slew of news organisations sought Kim’s permission to…
Paul Bradshaw does an interesting thing in sharing his answers to student questionnaires on his site. It’s interesting, because sometimes the questions are as indicative of the mindset amongst students as the answers are about the rest of us.…
Interesting column from John Gapper in the FT today. Here he’s talking about Jonah Peretti, founder of Buzzfeed: His insight was that sharing works differently from search. Search is a way to discover information, whereas sharing is prompted by…
