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Interesting piece by Martin Belam about anonymous comments and community. A community manager knows who the majority of commenters are, or at least their email addresses anyway. Sometimes a web name frees people to say what they want with a cloak of anonymity, particularly if they're a public figure. Looking back though newspapers from the 1930s etc. anonymous web-style pseudonyms were commonplace.
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Journalism student Chris Spurlock created a visual CV. It showed his skills as a data journalist and landed him a job at the Huffington Post.
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Rick Waghorn puts forward the idea of a micro network of hyperlocals, in contrast to the vertical news channel proposed by Starbucks.
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Examples of how Twitter has changed the way some journalists work.
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Useful tutorial into making a customised space on a Facebook PAGE, replacing the old tabs.
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Mystified by QR codes, but are they useful? It could be a great way to send people to your website via a printed surface.
If only we knew how.
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Great advice about how to deal with traumatic stories. (via Journalism.co.uk tips)
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Superb use of Tumblr by The Guardian, to cover different aspects of the SXSW festival.
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Bergens Tidende, in Bergen, Norway, has used road administration data to map traffic accidents. Stories developed with interviews with victims' families. Killing Roads became a massive editorial project.
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Cut aways are a great thing to break up video clips. This is not one of them.
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Another set of predictions for the future of journalism.
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Matthew Eltringham looks at the discussion between Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) and NPR's Andy Carvin )(@acarvin) about social media use in journalism and curation, for the BBC College of Journalism Blog.
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Contempt of court in one easy to follow post.
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An interesting comparison between the role of bloggers and journalists and how authority is held to account by both in different ways.
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Tools to turn data into something beautiful.
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Rising star, gigging journalists, just two ideas for the future of journalism.
Sarah Booker 