Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
entrepreneurship
Iām not liveblogging this session, because Iām not well-versed enough in French politics to be confident of doing it justice. Thereās a fascinating battle breaking out on stage, though. Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Redressement Productif in France, is on stage trying to defend Franceās reputation for
Buzzfeed
It might be a good time to start culling the politicians you follow on Twitter. Buzzfeedās Jim Waterson explains why Labour spammed its followersā Twitter feeds [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/labour-have-found-a-new-way-of-spamming-everyone] : > Itās an attempt to recreate blanket broadcast-style coverage on Twitter. And if 4.5m people
Politics
Do all those fine folks on Twitter represent a good cross-section of the general public? > Overall, the reaction to political events on Twitter reflects a combination of the unique profile of active Twitter users and the extent to which events engage different communities and draw the comments of active
Martin Belam
Martin Belam pretended to be a ghost on twitter ā and discovered the misogyny lurking in our political debate [http://martinbelam.com/2013/bbcextraghost/]: > Then I announced that the next guest was going to be Emmeline Pankhurst, the first time it had featured a woman. Within a couple of minutes
Journalism
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/2d9acfa6e024cd3c04a120459f1d1898973195fe.jpg] * Warning: liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and howling typos. Some of them will be mine, some of them auto-correctās. But donāt say you werenāt warnedā¦* Libby Powell [http://www.libbypowell.com/] became a hack
conversation
Margaret Thatcher has rather annoyed me this evening, and thatās not something Iāve been able to say for decades. I hate feeling obligated to write about something on my blog, you see, and by having the sheer, stark lack of consideration to die, sheās created a prevailing
elections
Something I wrote about the uses of social media in modern political campaigning [http://countries.gemalto.com/usa/election.php] a few months back.
Politics
Four years ago, on US election night, I was at The Frontline Club, enjoying their election party [dhisblog.com/archives/2008/11/us_election_night_at_the_front.html]. Tonight? Keeping up via the interwebs from my mother-in-lawās front room. Oh, and itās my birthday, too. I know
Politics
Iām such a sucker for these things, and this is a well-done exampleā¦
economics
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/vinay-gupta.jpg] *Catching up on my liveblogged notes from last weekāsMeaning Conference [http://meaningconference.co.uk/]ā I ran out of laptop battery, so couldnāt post them at the time.Ā * The second act of the afternoon session is
business models
Robert Andrews highlights the political dangers to the traditional Reed Elsevier [http://www.reedelsevier.com/] business model, by quoting a research note from Berstein Researchās Claudio Aspesi [http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/10/open-access-research-catastrophic-for-reed-elsevier/] : > We think the risk posed to the Elsevier business model is substantial. We believe
crowd funding
Bobbie Johnson ā making Matter matter About a year ago ā he got pissed off. He came from The Guardian which has a ātroubledā relationship with profit. Why does the meaty, good in-depth investigative stuff he likes not really exist online? Why does it need paper subsidy to make it work. And