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On "Online" Blogs Paid Members Public
Print subs, print journalists and print editors: I have a plea for you. I know many of you don’t like technology, and assume that your readers don’t, too. But really, using the phrase “online blog” just makes you look stupid. How many offline blogs have you come across?
An Electoral Retreat From Twitter Paid Members Public
I am a perpetual floating voter. I have political opinions, but no strong party loyalty – and I’ve voted for all the main parties and some minority ones in the elections I’ve participated in over the last couple of decades. There’s a simple reason for this: I believe
3 Posts About The Future of Blogs & Comments Paid Members Public
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the evolution of blogging, its interaction with social networking, and the role of content-based community on the web in recent weeks. These three posts really chimed with some of my conclusions: - Stephanie takes on[ two evolutions of blogging she really
So, About That Journalistic Fact-Checking Thing... Paid Members Public
So, the thing that seperates journalists from the blogger pack is reliability, accuracy, research and fact-checking, right? So, how come [this happens](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45155)? > “Girl with a One Track Mind” blogger and author Zoe Margolis has said she is
2009: The Top Ten Posts of the Year Paid Members Public
And so 2009 prepares its exit, and what an interesting year it has been. I’d be hard-pressed to describe it as a good year, but at least it wasn’t as bad as 2008, by virtue of not having something really traumatic happen. But a year that has seen
A Day in the Life of a Blog Platform Paid Members Public
One of the nice things about having system admin rights for the Movable Type install that powers the 150+ blogs we’re running right now is that I can see all comments as they come into the system, and guage what’s attracting attention. Today?Arguments about [the root of
The Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards Paid Members Public
And so, last night I took myself off to Shoreditch House [http://www.shoreditchhouse.com/] for the *Computer Weekly *IT Blog Awards. This is the second year that we’ve run these, and the first that we’ve actually had an awards night at the end, I believe. And what
Pre-Pub Reading Paid Members Public
Because I can’t justify calling it morning or afternoon coffee reading at this time of day… Two from [The Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ "The Daily Telegraph") worth your time:1. [Did AOL squander its investment in Bebo](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/7564413/