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When will we stop saying “Pictures from Twitter” and “Video from YouTube”?
Image from YouTube Over the weekend the BBC had to deal with the embarrassing ignorance of someone in their complaints department who appeared to believe that images shared on Twitter were “public...
View Article20 recent hyperlocal developments (June-August 2011)
Ofcom’s Damian Radcliffe produces a regular round-up of developments in hyperlocal publishing. In this guest post he cross-publishes his latest presentation for this summer, as well as the background...
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New Facebook news apps: bring the news to your users, or invite users to your...
There’s a salient quote in Journalism.co.uk’s report on Facebook’s ”new class of news apps” launched today: “As we worked with different news organisations there were two camps: people that wanted to...
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Choosing a strategy for content: 4 Ws and a H
For this content I chose to write text accompanied by some images and video, published on a blog at a particular moment, for the objective of saving time and gaining feedback. Something interesting...
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Social Interest Positioning – Visualising Facebook Friends’ Likes With Data...
What do my Facebook friends have in common in terms of the things they have Liked, or in terms of their music or movie preferences? (And does this say anything about me?!) Here’s a recipe for...
View ArticleLocation, Location, Location
In this guest post, Damian Radcliffe highlights some recent developments in the intersection between hyper-local SoLoMo (social, location, mobile). His more detailed slides looking at 20 developments...
View ArticleLeveson: the Internet Pops In
The following post was originally published by Gary Herman on the NUJ New Media blog. It’s reproduced here with permission. Here at Newmedia Towers we are being swamped by events which at long last are...
View Article“Data laundering”
Wonderful post by Tony Hirst in which he sort-of-coins* a lovely neologism in explaining how data can be “laundered”: “The Deloitte report was used as evidence by Facebook to demonstrate a particular...
View ArticleAdvertising is publishing – the Facebook effect
Before the internet made it easier for advertisers to become publishers, they were already growing tired of the limitations (and inflated price) of traditional display advertising. In the magazine...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about the laws on harassment, data protection and hate...
The following is taken from the law chapter of The Online Journalism Handbook. The book blog and Facebook page contain updates and additions – those specifically on law can be found here. Harassment...
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Is Facebook Advertising charging more to ‘mugged profiles’?
TweetAre Facebook quoting different prices for the same ad based on your profile? Guest contributor Desi Velikova thinks so. In a cross-post from her own blog, she writes how the same ad campaign would...
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A lesson from Superstorm Sandy: How to find sources using social media
TweetBy Ian Silvera In a world where an extraordinary amount of people own smartphones, it’s easier than ever to connect instantaneously with those affected by significant news events wherever you...
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Online security for journalists: never assume you’re secure
Tweetimage from xkcd With news last week of the New York Times and Washington Post being hacked recently, The Muckraker‘s Lyra McKee looks at internet security. “They were able to hack into the...
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Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts
In my capacity as amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, I have discovered a new raft of complaints as social media addicts adapt to the demands of new technologies and fluctuating social...
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How journalists can master Twitter (blogger’s cut)
The following is a longer version of the article that appeared in Journalism.co.uk last week, with some extra tools and quotes. It’s almost impossible to sum up Twitter in one line. To some, it is a...
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Five questions from another journalism student
A third year BA Honours Journalism student studying at Middlesex University and based at the Journalism Centre Harlow College has emailed me the following questions. As always, I make the responses...
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How useful could Seesmic be for journalists?
See this video and respond on Seesmic I’ve recently been playing with Seesmic once again, having briefly dabbled with an alpha invite a few months ago and stupidly written it off as a vague video...
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Four more social media psychological complaints
Following my post on the Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts, it appears there have been more syndromes identified. Here they are: Meme Orphanism Identified by KerryJ,...
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Content, context and code: verifying information online
When the telephone first entered the newsroom journalists were sceptical. “How can we be sure that the person at the other end is who they say they are?” The question seems odd now, because we have...
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Choosing a strategy for content: 4 Ws and a H
Something interesting happened to journalism when it moved from print and broadcast to the web. Aspects of the process that we barely thought about started to be questioned: the ‘story’ itself seemed...
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