Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Blogging
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/01/IMG_0177.jpg] Good morning, good morning. I imagine that many people are back at their desks this fine Monday morning, and so, from my holiday, I provide you with some crucial reading about journalism to while away the
change management
Shane Richmond [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/shane_richmond/] twittered [http://twitter.com/shanerichmond/status/1095655553] a link that acts as a nice counter to my rather depressing end-of-working-year post [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2008/12/2008_journalists_blogging_a_parting_shot.html] from a couple of weeks back.
2008
On the whole, it’s been a pretty good year for One Man & His Blog, despite the trying personal circumstances I’ve been through. My RSS subscribers have comfortably doubled over the course of the year (although I have had to watch my World of Warcraft blog [http://www.
Blogging
Memories — and photos — from a mid-90s press trip to Quinta do Noval.
Clay Shirky
[](https://i0.wp.com/commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clay_Shirky.jpg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clay_Shirky.jpg)Boing Boing ran an excellent post by
aggregation
Hmm. Automated tech news aggregator Techmeme is about to become slightly less automated. Venture Beat reports that a veteran tech journo will now rearrange and generally improve the results coming out of the aggregation algorithm [http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/03/news-aggregator-techmeme-melds-algorithms-and-humans/] . Techcrunch argues that the inclusion of a human
Blogging
[](https://i2.wp.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livejournal-logo.png)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livejournal-logo.png)*[The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/ "The Independent"
Journalism
Today’s unfortunate events in mumbai have raised some interesting questions about the relationship between Twitter and journalism. A few places worth visiting:- Dave asks [if Twittering can be journalism](http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/11/27/isTwitterJournalism.html)? - Ciarán thinks about the implications of[ the Indian
hackopalypse
In a meeting earlier, I made a throw-away remark about the publishing news being so bad between now and next spring that all our journalists will be scared stiff. I was joking. But judging by the news coming in (hat tip to Heidi from Computer Weekly [http://twitter.com/computerweekly]
Barack Obama
[![WATERFORD, MI - JUNE 02: Democratic president...]()](http://www.daylife.com/image/077o42b7hPeFx)Image by [Getty Images](http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images) via [Daylife](http://www.daylife.com)Welcome to this month’s [Carnival of Journalism](http://carnivalofjournalism.com/), a monthly celebration of the best in blogging about
birmingham mail
(Incidentally, I’m disappointed to note that neither Press Gazette [http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/axegrinder/2008/11/06/brum-mail-reporter-in-youtube-exclusive-f-you-i-resign/] nor The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2008/nov/06/pressandpublishing-digitalmedia] linked or credited MarkMedia [http://markmedia.blogs.com/markmedia/2008/11/how-journalism-works.html] who found the
birmingham mail
I know the guy had been drinking, but this is really quite shocking: And we wonder why journalism is in trouble? (via MarkMedia [http://markmedia.blogs.com/markmedia/2008/11/how-journalism-works.html]) Update: the drunk journalist in question is Adam Smith of the Birmingham Mail [https://web.archive.org/web/