I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…
Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly [...]
Tag Archives: media
My Week in Media
January 8, 2008 – 12:51 pm
Things I Wish I’d Said #1084
October 23, 2007 – 8:39 pm
I was at a roundtable debate this morning about Citizen Journalism (update: rather ungenerous of me not to mention this was hosted by the excellent people from iStockPhoto). Everyone saying they want to embrace CJ as part of their forward strategy. I suggest that mainstream media is attempting to contain rather than embrace conversations.
Me (to [...]
Social Media Releases
December 8, 2006 – 2:57 pm
StoryCrafter, Edelman’s version of a social media press release service, has attracted a fair amount of attention. There’s no lack of good comments already out there, but the subject’s interesting to me, so I thought I’d pitch in too.
First a round-up:
Social media press releases are designed to give journalists and bloggers the elements of a [...]
Blogging Asia
December 7, 2006 – 11:50 am
Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a significant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the following from here, here and here.
46% of the online population in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US web [...]
Blogging Beyond the Boundaries
November 28, 2006 – 3:11 pm
The online academic journal Reconstruction has a special issue devoted to blogs and blogging. It includes a paper from one of my favourite Aca/Fans, Danah Boyd, entitled ‘A Blogger’s Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium’.
What follows is a summary/simplification with a tiny pinch of comment.
She’s talking about the difficulties involved in defining the medium, [...]
Poll Position - UK Last Again
November 16, 2006 – 2:20 pm
From Hotwire PR comes an ipsos MORI poll of European internet users:
Blogs are now a near second to newspapers as the most trusted information source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of information, still behind newspaper articles (30%), but ahead of television advertising (17%) and email marketing (14%).
High spenders are most [...]
The Horror of Partial Fee…
November 9, 2006 – 10:14 am
Great post from fellow Good-blogger Kate on the bête noire that is partial feeds. I share her thoughts entirely on this issue. She’s unsubscribing from anyone or anything that only offers partial feeds. Unfortunately for me, since some of my most important news sources (every (?) UK newspaper and the BBC) only offers partial feeds [...]
Why do PRs Blog?
November 8, 2006 – 12:28 pm
One of the things that really surprised me when I started blogging earlier this year was the number of PR people who are involved in it (big list here here). For some reason, I thought there’d be more journos doing it. But then, I suppose a lot of journalists have to blog for the publications [...]
Where is Digi Joe Public?
October 16, 2006 – 9:36 am
The Guardian covers a poll of 2,012 UK adults which has uncovered a new demographic profile, ‘Digi Joe Public’, the man on the street who is heavily involved in online life. The poll revealed that “nearly four in 10 of that group have read a blog, with a quarter having started their own blog or [...]
Everybody Wants to Be a Blogger
October 15, 2006 – 3:25 pm
On the IWantMedia site, there’s an interview with Josh Quittner, the editor of Business 2.0, who has just instructed all his journalists to start writing blogs in addition to their normal duties. The individual blogs will be aggregated on a super-site, in addition to the normal Business 2.0 blog. Quittner says that his team has [...]
