What’s the first rule of blogging?

Consistent publishing. Yes, that’s right publishing daily – if not more – so that your readers will return knowing you will always have something (hopefully of interest) to say. That said, I have a good excuse: I am heading on my honeymoon for three and a half weeks tomorrow, so I won’t be publishing. So [...]

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News like porn – the ongoing ‘charging for online news’ debate

The queen of blogs, Arianna Huff, has continued the pay for online news debate – reopened by Murdoch a few weeks ago -  by claiming:
Unless you’re selling porn — especially weird porn — I would not go the subscription route.
That is of course unless people want news like they want porn, something News Ltd newspapers [...]

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Continuing to enhance those multimedia skills

Things have been quite hectic for me lately. There is of course the marking, which any university lecturer will know completely overtakes all else at the end of the semester. I am also heading off on honeymoon next week so I am madly getting organised for that.
But enough of the excuses. Below are a list [...]

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Could this be the future of investigative journalism?

I love to read about projects like this, an attempt to use the benefits of the online medium as a tool for building a future for journalism, rather than seeing it as the root of all evil. Based in the UK’s West Midlands, Help Me Investigate (HMI) is a trial of a platform for crowdsourcing [...]

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Online hyperlocal news – is it possible?

As debate continues today about the fairness of the ABC receiving government funding to ramp up regional online content, I found this interesting development in the UK. A big(ish) newspaper group  is setting up ‘citizen journalism’ sites for small towns without newspapers. Associated Northcliffe Digital claim:
In every town, there will already be a person who [...]

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