This post by Sarah Marshal from the Guardian Changing Media Summit [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2012/03/21/social-predicted-to-overtake-search-as-guardian-traffic-driver/] makes interesting reading in conjunction with my post yesterday [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/03/google_targets_seo_over-optimisation_-_s.html] : > Six months ago months ago Google
coffee
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/03/0f69fe2070e711e19e4a12313813ffc0_7.jpg] It’s Sunday, and I’m on holiday – or as on holiday as an under-employed freelance consultant can be – and so my thoughts turn to those most vital components of a relaxing Sunday: coffee and the
BBC
Liveblog of a panel debate about social media from news:rewired in February 2012
Journalism
Claire Wardle is running a “pulling together” session. Key points so far: Verification: * Do we need to get more comfortable with saying that things are unverified * Is it irresponsible to just push things out, knowing people won’y come back to check things later. * More training needed on how to
Blogs
Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now: * The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress [http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/08/the-independent-switches-to-wordpress/] . Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit. * The Guardian
journalism education
Essentially, I think Greenslade is displaying exactly the same sort of myopia that I criticised in Caesar – his post suggests the same reflexive association of the words journalist and journalism with the national newspapers. And I don’t accept that his anecdotal experience of his City students reflects the whole
X (Twitter)
A gagging order designed to target mainstream news titles has been undone by the concerted efforts of Twitter users.
Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isn’t social, as someone in the crowd pointed out.Some discussion
alan rusbridger
Two things you should really look at today: Steve Jackson, more widely known as ourman, has written a great post rethinking the way that newspapers should be run [http://ourmanonplanetearth.com/2009/04/27/social-media-newspaper/]. And, as highlighted by Martin [http://www.itsdevelopmental.com/2009/04/video-guardian-editor-alan-rusbridger-on-future-of-journalism.html] , and originally
BBC
*Photo by [RachelH_ on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagelmouse/3403502047/), used under a [Creative Commons licence](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_GB)*My work schedule means that I’m sat in Sutton today, while all the reporting action is up in central London, as
Blogging
[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/guardian.jpg) Looks like the “[effing blogs](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/02/nuj_effing_blogs.html)