Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Blogging
It’s a rubbish headline, which undersells the article based on current news, but hey, this is The Guardian piece on RBI’s push into the internet world. I get a mention towards the end: Farmers take online bull by the horns [http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2012328,
Blogging
The team from Newsbreak are learning how to blog: [http://www.newsbreak.com.ph/blog/2007/02/12/blogging-journalists/] > It’s a bright Monday morning and we’re all here in Makati, learning how to blog. Just how difficult is it? If you’re a journalist, you’re supposed
Journalism
Here’s a great example of a print publisher starting to make good money from becoming an online business. Colin’s Corner: The transformation of IDG [http://colincrawford.typepad.com/idg/2007/02/the_transformat.html]: > For over four decades we’ve had print blood running through the veins
Blogging
Alex Singleton attempts to explain feeds in RSS – why and how on Samizdata.net [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/02/rss_why_and_how.html]. Brave soul. For some reason, the two biggest ideas I struggle to communicate to journalists who start blogging are what RSS feeds are,
Blogging
noodlepie: British journalism blogs [http://www.noodlepie.com/2007/02/british_journal.html] > I put together a UK Journalists’ blogroll for the resuscitated Press Gazette. These are journalists based in Britain blogging predominantly about journalism. Clearly trade journalists only count if they write about journalism for a living… 🙂 Ah,
environment
Both Martin Stabe [http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/02/03/whats-worse-dead-trees-or-energy-hungry-networks/] and Wordblog [http://www.wordblog.co.uk/2007/02/03/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-the-internet/] picked up on my post last week musing on the relative environmental impact of print against online publishing.
avian flu
A couple of highlights from the day job. At the tail end of last week, New Scientist launched a competition to allow one lucky person to win a trip to space [http://www.winatriptospace.co.uk]. Why does this involve me? Well, the entry mechanism is, in fact, built around
environment
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/377657241/ "photo sharing") [A small selection of what we do](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/377657241/)Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.
Journalism
Mike Arrington has put up a long post on CrunchNotes explaining why Sam Sethi was sacked, from his point of view. It’s a very different one to the story Sethi has been promoting: The actions that resulted in his dismissal were additional comments he wrote on that second post,
Journalism
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Journalism
John Naughton [http://molly.open.ac.uk/Personal-pages/OAQs.htm]‘s speech to the Society of Editors [http://www.societyofeditors.co.uk/] conference last week has reprinted in The Observer as Young people don’t like us. Who can blame them? [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945553,
Journalism
I was browsing my RSS feeds this morning, and I spotted a story about Microsoft’s new 3D Virtual Earth [http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=19605&hed=Microsoft%20Maps%20Go%203D]. “Ah-ha,” I thought, “I spotted that on Sky News last night and it looked interesting.” So,
