Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Liveblogging: an ecosystem, not a product Paid Members Public
Daniel Bennet’s posted some thoughts about the art of liveblogging [http://mediatingconflict.blogspot.com/2010/09/all-eyes-on-ed-miliband-some-thoughts.html] . It’s an interesting read but I would like to suggest that there’s a false underlying assumption in the post. He seems to be assuming that a liveblog is, once
Law and the lone blogger Paid Members Public
Judith Townend [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/09/29/time-to-talk-about-legal/]: > As a lone blogger how much legal protection do you have? No more than anyone else, when it comes to libel, contempt of court law and so on, except that people are more likely to pay attention to large media
Persecuting your fans the Royal Opera House way Paid Members Public
From the “batshit insane” file: the Royal Opera House is busy sending appallingly typo-ridden legal threats to an opera blogger [http://intermezzo.typepad.com/intermezzo/2010/09/without-prejudice-why-all-the-royal-opera-house-posts-have-disappeared/comments/page/3/#comments] . > I have made not a penny from “images referenced to performances at the Royal Opera House”. The
Reasons for journalists to blog Paid Members Public
Paul Norman of [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/olympics/2010/09/olympics-exclusives-two-major-schemes-come-forward.html] Estates Gazette [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/olympics/2010/09/olympics-exclusives-two-major-schemes-come-forward.html] on his Olympics blog: [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/olympics/2010/09/olympics-exclusives-two-major-schemes-come-forward.html] > I have a couple of exclusives on the Olympics site
Lessons from the death of Vox Paid Members Public
Six Apart's attempt to create a blog platform that behaved like a social network is done.
The Dangers of Web Neophilia Paid Members Public
My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my experience, new social media tends to
Buttoning Up Our Blogs Paid Members Public
The observant might have noticed the arrival of the new, official, Tweet button [http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton] and a more compact Facebook Like button on this here blog a few days ago. I tend to use OM&HB as a testing ground for things we could roll out
Science Online: Bloggers, Commenters and the Reputation Game Paid Members Public
This slideshow requires JavaScript. I dropped into one of the unconference sessions, looking at engaging with your readers (of obvious interest to me). The panel did a sterling job of giving a beginner’s guide to managing comments and commenters, from different scales (personal blogs to Ars Technica). I thought