Politics
Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
After NotW: what might the future of media look like? Paid Members Public
I’m loathe to join the general mob of bloggers posting about every little twist and turn of the phone-hacking scandal, and the closure of the News of the Screws World. That market niche is filled sufficiently. I’m more interested in trying to discern the long-term consequences of what’
Quick Capture: today's anti-cuts protests on an iPhone Paid Members Public
At lunchtime today’s anti-cuts protest passed Estates Gazette’s offices in Holborn. I couldn’t resist nipping out to grab a little footage and see how quickly I could turn it around. Just two pieces of kit involved – my iPhone 4 and my MacBook Pro. This is the result:
The Dale Plan for "rescuing" political blogging Paid Members Public
Iain Dale thinks he’s riding to the rescue of British political blogging [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/13/political-blogging-iain-dale-and-friends] : > I think the way forward for mass audience blogs is with group blogs. To that effect in a few weeks I am launching a new multi-authored
RSA: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Paid Members Public
Liveblogged notes from a talk by Tim Wu about the book The Rise and Fall or Information Empires, given at the RSA, London
#likeminds - Steve Moore is building the Big Society Paid Members Public
 The Big Society – it’s an idea that started to emerge a year or so ago, from issues around the state of the economy. Other issues played into it: the
RBI Sites Covering the Emergency Budget Paid Members Public
Adding them to the post as I find them: * Computer Weekly [http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/06/21/241676/live-coverage-the-june-2010-emergency-budget.htm] * Estates Gazette [http://www.egi.co.uk/articles/2010/06/22/719486/Budget-2010-Live-Coverage.htm] (with behind the scenes coverage [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/2010/06/behind-the-scenes-of-egs-emergency-budget-coverage.
On Opinion Polls Paid Members Public
Possibly the finest moment from Yes, Prime Minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister]: Any journalist about to write about opinion polls should be forced to sit down and watch this.
Was This An Online Election? Paid Members Public
So, how has the online media done on this election? The BBC has reported unprecedented levels of traffic to its site this morning, but Paul Bradshaw has a good post up, suggesting that there’s a degree ofhomogenisation amongst the online news outlets [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/05/07/uk-general-election-2010-online-journalism-is-ordinary/
