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Basically, how to learn and share. Great ways to advise students and reluctant colleagues how to become part of the wider web community and learn better ways of working.
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Check, check and check again.
31/08/2010
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29/08/2010
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I couldn't possibly comment: Westminster commercial noise map – experiment with Google Fusion TablesA great and simple "how I did it guide" from Will Perrin, data mashing with a Google map
27/08/2010
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Great post from Adam Tinworth about shiny web toys.
"My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my experience, new social media tends to be additive rather than replacing what went before. We're still making active and successful use of forums, which are prehistoric in web terms, and, in some markets, blogging is just hitting its stride, despite the fact that those social media superstars were declaring it passé two years ago…. Successful new services rarely replace older one, they just push them into a smaller niche. "
26/08/2010
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Talking to Media Week as News International’s paywalls for The Times and The Sunday Times sites approach the end of their second month, adland’s most influential figure appeared to fully support the endeavours.
"We think paywalls are essential because we think giving away content for free, particularly if consumers value that content, makes no sense." he said. "Consumers have to pay for content they value."
The man behind the group whose marcoms billings topped £20.3bn in the first six months of 2010, also believes advertisers will not be put off by the restricted potential reach of such gated sites.
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Difference between people taking action and commenting on a story rather than the actual engagement and emotional response generated. Equally interesting comment highlighting the difference.
24/08/2010
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Useful tips and tools suggested to make blog interesting and useful
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Audioboo is brewing a new feature that will let users send private messages to each other – like Twitter's direct messages, but audio. Destination: Massive.
Thinking about how Audioboo is used and what it plugs into gets very interesting. If you're not in a position to type a message, you can record and send a boo instead. There's a five minute limit (though a planned pro version would allow you more) – but five minutes of audio is a lot more message than 140 characters.
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You have anywhere from three to ten seconds to capture and hold someone’s attention in a conversation. On Twitter, you have 140 characters. Realistically, you have about one second if you consider the number of Twitter users (100 million+) and the number of tweets per second (1,000–4,000, pending on the current events). The point? If you don’t have a snazzy lede (am I old school for still spelling it that way?) you’re never going to get clicked.
One for selling Twitter to the newsroom.
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Handy guide to make sure a video is indexed on Google news.
(via Joanna Geary)
23/08/2010
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Entrepreneur Molly Graham describes her concept as a 21st-century newsstand. It will feature flat-panel TVs displaying breaking news and popular sports events, and music will sometimes play from the stand. In addition, the cube-shaped stand located on the median strip at 16th and California streets will sell more than 400 magazine titles and 15 different newspapers, including The Denver Post.
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Rupert Murdoch is pushing forward with his plans for a tablet computer-only digital newspaper, tapping Greg Clayman, currently head of digital distribution for Viacom, to serve as publisher, All Things Digital's Peter Kafka reported yesterday.
News Corp. is looking to spend US$30 million to $40 million on the project, paidContent confirmed today.
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There is a good, strong editorial in this morning’s FT condemning a proposed law in South Africa that would go a long way to muzzling the press. The law would allow government ministers incredibly broad powers to classify information as secret and envisages penalties of upto 25 years in prison, for journalists who publish unauthorised secrets. The definition of a “secret” includes sensitive business information.
The proposed law is a major threat to South African democracy. Yet, I have been struck by the almost total silence of the British press on this subject. Papers that devoted acres of space to the success of the World Cup cannot be bothered to follow up with a report of what’s going on in South Africa now. Even the famously liberal Guardian has not uttered a word, although it was assiduous in covering the outrages of apartheid. (To be fair, the Guardian’s sister newspaper, The Observer, carried a short piece over the weekend.)
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But plans to close 103 courts across England and Wales could soon see the last witness called, the bench abandoned, and the clerk closing the book for a final time.
It's a government initiative, originally considered by Labour but now part of the push to reduce the deficit. But this will be one decision that's rather close to home for David Cameron.
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Useful you can do it guide for new starters.
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The web is already a winner-takes-all environment with Facebook its portal, and Google its yellow pages. Journalism failed to take its chance in the information revolution. But now with the move to social and mobile, phones and e-readers, is there a second chance?
Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters.
But already there are signs that native newsreaders like Flipboard for the iPad and LeNewz for the iPhone are stealing a march on the standalone offerings of news providers.
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For as much as technology can distract us from long-form journalism, though, it can also be a gateway into it.
Five guys — Nate Weiner of Read It Later, Marco Arment of Instapaper, Max Linsky and Aaron Lammer of Longform.org, and Mark Armstrong of @LongReads — have found ways to use Web tools to renew attention to long-form journalism, increase its shelf life and make it easier for people to consume and share it.
The tools they're using to create an immersive, focused environment for reading are the same ones that challenge our ability to avoid distractions at work and when we're out with friends: mobile apps, websites and Twitter.
19/08/2010
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Audioboo is a popular audio clip publishing service and has mobile applications for Android and iPhone. However, there is no support for Symbian. Never fear though, David Gilson is on the case and shows us how to publish to Audioboo via Nokia Share Online and Pixelpipe's Audioboo plugin.
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Quick guide to Facebook Places
