wikipedia
The dark underbelly of paid Wikipedia editing
Wikipedia's growing role as a verification source has made it more lucrative for paid editors.
drones
Tech today in one sentence
Russell Davies [http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2016/12/cool-or-evil.html]: > We’re in that phase with a bunch of technologies where corporations don’t know if things make them look cool or evil. Case in point [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/08/revealedrio-tinto-surveillance-station-plans-to-use-drones-to-monitors-staffs-private-lives?] .
Blogging
Blogger blackmail or blagger blunder?
Today in “things that depress me”: > One of the biggest points being made on Twitter is that bloggers don’t get stuff for free, but are working for their reviews. I wholeheartedly agree. There is nothing wrong with a blogger being compensated for their work through an experience, goods
Journalism
The "placed" story and other failures of journalism
Sarah Lacy is outraged by PR behaviour [http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/24/no-feedgen-i-wont-publish-the-article-you-wrote-about-yourself-under-my-byline/] : > A company pivoted (read: failed) and decided it wanted some positive press. So it paid someone to write a story. Not a press release or a guest post, an actual fake news story, paid for
Journalism
Traditional journalism will 'blow away on the winds of the internet'
Philip Trippenbach [http://trippenbach.com/2012/03/14/traditional-journalism-is-being-crushed-letter-to-a-young-journalist/] : > Make no mistake: traditional, platform-based journalism is being crushed, and its dust will blow away on the winds of the internet. I know this is a melodramatic way to put it, but it’s an important point to make. Newspaper,
events
Owning Social Meda, and APA Breakfasting
My diary is filling up alarmingly right now, and it has been a hectic couple of days, but I just wanted to pause a second and blog a little about a talk I gave to the APA – the Association of Publishing Agencies [https://the-cma.com] – yesterday. It was pretty much
estates gazette
A Press Lunch With A Twist
How do you make your annual press lunch stand out from the pack? You make [the journalists cook it themselves](http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/2010/04/property-masterchef-aka-allsops-press-lunch.html). *Awesome*.
bloggers
When is a Blogger not a Blogger?
Isn’t it interesting how the broadening of the communication channel causes gatekeepers of all stripes (in this case, the Tory press office) to tie themselves into knots trying to define who is “media” and who isn’t? Incidentally, I think they’ll live to regret that attitude on display
bradford
Micro-Celebrities: Selling Your City With Linda Barker
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/03/LindaBarker.jpg] My friend and colleague Stacey has been at MIPIM [http://www.mipim.com/], the big commercial property show held annually in the south of France. It’s a big money do, and some exhibitors there spend some
apple
Valentine's Day is Coming…
Ah, you can tell that it’s less than a month until that consumerist festival of enforced affection they call Valentine’s Day: Apple have released a pink iPod Nano.The only thing I find remarkable about this is that they actually feel that an additional colour for the line,
Blogging
Bloggers & PRs: Old Dance, New Partner
Over on Workbench, Rogers Caldenhead suggest that the most popular techbloggers are starting to tread a very well-trod path: that of the exclusive and the embargo [http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3283/exclusive-techbloggers-have-sold-their-souls] , as the news sites cut deals with PRs. This is interesting, I think, because tech blogs
apple
Apple's Idiotic Decision of the Day
Via Mike Butcher [http://mbites.com/]‘s Twitter stream [http://twitter.com/mbites/statuses/276241442]: > no wifi at apple iphone uk launch. What idiots I really can’t believe that anybody seriously arranged a press event, particularly a tech press event, without giving free WiFi access for the hack.