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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/
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
Why You Need Comments on Your News Paid Members Public
Any news organisation that’s serious about being accurate needs to read the tale of BBC woe [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/24/when-the-lack-of-comments-damages-your-news-brand/] Paul Bradshaw spins. Here’s the money quote: > Of course having comments on the story would have allowed this discussion to take place in public,
On News, Communities and Journalists Paid Members Public
More essential reading for Saturday morning (time for a second cuppa), this time about the relationship between news and online communities [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/newspapers-get-the-kind-of-communities-they-deserve/] : > Our comments routinely point us in the direction of new angles for stories, and in many cases commenters have become sources
A Defined Online Identity Boosts Engagement? Paid Members Public
This cropped up in a post aboutthe latest improvements to Typepad [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/movin-on-up-typepad-news-and-release-notes.html] : > Improved comment experience > [![Comment-form-icons-typepad]( "Comment-form-icons-typepad")](http://everything.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c82369e20120a5d7c8a1970c-pi) > Based on some impressive performance on the beta blogs, we have added a few
Using Disqus for Blog Comments Paid Members Public
From this post onwards, I’ve replaced the commenting system on this blog with the [Disqus Comments](http://disqus.com/comments/) system. Disqus is one of the breed of external comment providers that have become popular in the last year or so, that include Automattic’s [Intense Debate](http://intensedebate.
Some Good Reading About The Future of News Paid Members Public
Good stuff I’ve read recently, haven’t linked to yet, but don’t have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] – an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
UKiP, Community Care and Blog Comments Paid Members Public
Ah, the social media world is full of chit-chat after the felling of a Labour parliamentary candidate [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7571078/General-Election-2010-Labour-candidate-sacked-over-Twitter-rants.html] by his own brazen stupidity and contempt for the electorate Twitter. But, here in sunny Sutton, we’ve been having a bit of