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Now scientists say "Stop reading the Daily Express to enjoy a longer life"!
From the "D,ho! The irony" files. In recent weeks the Daily Express has bought us front pages like this.             Yet today, on page 3, they tell us that 'being happier' is the secret to a longer life. And so it seems like stopping reading all the miserable doom-mongering in the Daily Express might make you live longer......

Published February 18, 2010 - 18 comments so far - Read the full post

"Journalism in the digital age" at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
On April 11th I will be speaking as part of a panel at the Edinburgh International Science Festival discussing "Journalism in the digital age: Trends, tools and technologies" alongside Iain Hepburn and my Guardian Local colleague Sarah Hartley.

Published February 18, 2010 - No comments yet - Read the full post

European Young Journalist Award 2010
There are still a couple of weeks for young journalists to enter the European Commission sponsored award.

Published February 17, 2010 - No comments yet - Read the full post

Implementing hNews on a blog - what does 'Value Added News' mean for a blogger?
As part of the recent redesign process on the currybetdotnet blog, I implemented the 'Value Added News' hNews microformat to provide additional metadata on my articles. Doing so raised some questions that were not just practical about how to implement the format, but philosophical about the nature of the blog itself.

Published February 12, 2010 - 9 comments so far - Read the full post

Evening Standard's Richard Godwin can't stand IT - even for fact-checking NASA's "space pen"
Richard Godwin's argument that schools should use pencils rather than the latest technology would be a lot more convincing if he didn't back it up with the tired old urban myth about NASA's "Space Pen".

Published February 10, 2010 - 2 comments so far - Read the full post

Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 3
In the final part of my review of user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers, I'm looking at social media usage, and the moderation overhead of providing online comment facilities on a student newspaper.

Published February 5, 2010 - 1 comment so far - Read the full post

Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 2
In part two of this series looking at some of the user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers, I'm examining student news sources like Pluto Online in Preston, and The Demon in Leicester.

Published February 4, 2010 - 2 comments so far - Read the full post

Tomorrow's newsmakers today - Student newspaper online review: Part 1
With my interest in the future of news, I've been looking at the digital publishing by the people who might be producing the news in the future. This series looks at some of the user experience features in the online versions of university student union newspapers.

Published February 3, 2010 - No comments yet - Read the full post

The flawed French Facebook & Twitter experiment - social media is a conversation, not a newswire
The curious experiment by five French journalists to hide in a remote location and only use Facebook and Twitter as their news sources ignores the fact that social media is a conversation with friends - and conversations with friends are generally pretty good at conveying the news you need to know.

Published January 26, 2010 - 4 comments so far - Read the full post

'News Linked Data Summit' on Fleet Street
I spent Friday at a fascinating event at the St Bride Foundation, just off Fleet Street, discussing the application of the 'web of data' to the news industry. I'd helped organise the 'News Linked Data Summit', along with John O'Donovan and Silver Oliver of the BBC, Richard Wallis of Talis, and Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust. The day was held under the Chatham House Rule, and so I'm not going to go into too much detail, but suffice...

Published January 25, 2010 - No comments yet - Read the full post

'The curation gap' - what journalism can learn from "Citizen History"
My post yesterday, inspired by some of the fallout from the news:rewired event, generated some healthy debate on the blog and on Twitter. Scott Dougal suggested I was being a little unfair holding that article from that paper up as an example of professionalism journalism, and David Higgerson on Twitter said he just wished the debate 'would move beyond pointing out faults'. I promised him that I'd post how I thought everybody could live together happily ever after instead. In...

Published January 20, 2010 - 5 comments so far - Read the full post

With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger or 'citizen journalist', when newspapers persist in publishing professionally produced articles, like the Sunday Express 'exposure' of the BBC use of Twitter, which are so wrong that they have to be swiftly deleted.

Published January 19, 2010 - 17 comments so far - Read the full post

Council coverage in local newspapers: Waltham Forest and Romford
Sarah Hartley has been using the 'Help me investigate' crowd-sourced journalism tool to find out how local newspapers cover local councils. I've chipped in with a review of coverage in the Waltham Forest Guardian and the Romford Recorder.

Published January 18, 2010 - No comments yet - Read the full post

Nemi on the death of newspapers
The Nemi cartoon in today's celebrity-strewn Metro seemed amusingly apt.

Published December 15, 2009 - 1 comment so far - Read the full post

"In the future, there will be journalists"
At a UCLAN workshop in Preston, I was part of a group trying to discover the digital skills and training that a young journalist in 2012 would need. This post explains what we thought the journalist of the future would look like.

Published December 14, 2009 - 5 comments so far - Read the full post

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