Posts about the skills, ethics and practicalities of being a member of the fourth estate.
Blogging
Itās my birthday today and, thanks to my lovely family, Iāve been far too busy playing with my brand new iPod and going out for lunch (unsuccessfully, but thatās a story for tomorrow) to blog. But hereās a handful of links, handily filtered with the aid
BBC
Via Jim [http://bloggingrbi.blogspot.com/2006/11/berners-lee-bites-back.html] and Antony [http://open.typepad.com/open/2006/11/creator_of_the_.html] I note that Tim Berners-Lee, the man that invented the World Wide Web, is complaining about being misquoted in [http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/170]
Blogging
I canāt remember if Iāve made this explicit here or not but, at the moment, Iām working full time on helping my employer roll out blogs for certain of its magazines. I certainly remember mentioning the Hairdressers Journal Blog [http://www.hji.co.uk/blogs/main/]. Well,
Blogging
Nick Carr pokes some pointed holes in the ābloggers will replace journalistsā idea [http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/10/easy_as_pie.php]. Of course, thatās not to say that bloggers wonāt replace some journalists. Are you sure your copy is good enough for people to choose
Blogs
The relationship between online and paper publishing is evolving at an incredible rate. In the last fortnight alone, weāve seen The Guardian announce that stories will hit the website before the paper [http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1795194,00.html] (provoking plenty of āme tooā announcements
the spectator
The Spectator, that crusty old beast of political magazines, is getting a make-over. And thereās one very interesting change: DāAncona reshuffles Spectator team: Van der Post will edit of a new section titled You Earned It, which will chronicle and celebrate the fashions, trends and luxuries of modern
Journalism
Whoops. One of the most prominent movers from full-time journalism to full-time blog advocate, Dan Gillmor, has had to change his direction somewhat. You can read whatās happened in his post, linked below. From Dan: A Letter to the Bayosphere Community [http://bayosphere.com/blog/dan_gillmor/20060124/from_
7/7 bombings
Iāve just run across an interesting post [http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2005/07/lets_forget_abo.html] from Neil McIntosh about the phrase ācitizen journalistā, often used to describe bloggers and mobloggers who do some form of reporting, and how lacking in meaning it really is. I very
070705
I wasnāt the only one to get attention, it seems: bethlet.net: Blog [http://web.archive.org/web/20061207001847/http://bethlet.net/catacombs/000758.html] : > Second, everyone pick up a copy of the USA Today tomorrow. I was interviewed by Mark Memmott today about the bombings and how
books
Thereās a great post over on Storytellers Unplugged about the distinction between an author and a writer. This post is called I Do It For The Money [http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2005/07/i-do-it-for-money.html]: > Author: Person whose name is on a book cover. Writer: Someone actively putting
Journalism
One last little post before bed: PressThink [http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/] Iām rather late in discovering this site, but it looks like an interesting take on ideas around modern journalism.
BBC
Full Hutton details here [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3437315.stm]. So, the BBC is in trouble, standing accused of poor journalism and worse management. The Sun faces serious repercussions from its decision to publish the leak of the report this morning. We have some mild