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Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
Wednesday was The Guardian's first Activate summit - a one day conference at Kings Place bring together people to discuss how technology, politics and social sciences could come together to forge the future. Yesterday I published some thoughts about the presentations by Gerry Jackson and Nick Bostrom. One panel, chaired by Emily Bell, focused specifically on politics, featuring former minister Tom Watson, shadow minister for science and innovation Adam Afriyie, and Thomas Gensener from Blue State Digital. Adam Afriyie's...

Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
On Wednesday I spent a brilliant day at Kings Place at The Guardian's Activate 09 event. It was a packed programme, which I'd like to blog about at length. To be honest though, by the time I left my brain was absolutely fizzing, and the day had covered so much ground that it was hard to know where to start. Gerry Jackson and SWRadio Africa So, I thought I'd start with what was by far the most emotionally moving...

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 6
This is the final post of a series based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. What about when it all goes wrong? A lot of brands can be very cautious about potential negative brand damage from social media. And it is true - you might make mistakes, and you will definitely be criticised online....

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 5
This is the fifth of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Blogging With the rise of social bookmarking and the media championing Twitter, blogging has begun to seem distinctly old hat. It does look, however, to have survived the early predictions of it being CB Radio for the 2000s,...

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 4
This is the fourth of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Twitter Twitter has been, without doubt, the communications technology hype of the year. There are several ways that mainstream companies have been using Twitter - some more successfully than others. One approach is to simply announce all content...

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 3
This is the third of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. The social bookmarking feedback loop The ratings you get on social bookmarking sites are valuable feedback, and some major news publishers utilise them to add value to their site. The Telegraph, for example, has a 'Most Dugg' widget...

Michael Jackson's death sweeps BBC expenses from the front pages
"Michael Jackson's death spares the BBC" What would have been on Friday's front pages.

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 2
This is the second of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Social bookmarking Social bookmarking icons have infected major publishers websites like some kind of Internet design plague. The vast majority of mainstream news sites and high profile blogs come equipped with a whole set of brightly coloured icons...

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 1
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic An article based on my presentation at May's International Social Media Summit.

MPs expenses, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and the 'open' and 'closed' models of 21st century journalism
"MPs Expenses and 'open' and 'closed' journalism" How the contrasting approaches of The Telegraph and The Guardian to the MPs expenses data demonstrates debates about digital journalism.

Is peer-to-peer streaming of international football showing the game a new revenue model?

Wembley on the web: Part 2 - The FA Cup Final online from Sky Sports and the BBC

"Dead men don't sue" - the Mail's HTML refuses to clear Air France 'terror suspects'

Wembley on the web: Part 1 - The FA Cup Final online from ITV and Setanta

Spector Twitter hoax shows online honesty gap between bloggers and newspapers

"It's SunTalk Wot Won It"

'Local newspaper week' - The local council publicity machine

'Local newspaper week' - Council newspapers in London

'Do online newspapers have a future in a Digital Britain' - MTM London round-table session

'Local Newspaper Week' - Being local...

'Local Newspaper Week' - Council newspapers

'Local Newspaper Week' - Democracy

'Local Newspaper Week' - Advertising

'Local Newspaper Week' - Welcome to your new local...

"Copyright in the Digital Age" - SIIA issue briefing

Interview with a Scott Trust Bursary student - Helia Phoenix

'Insight into Journalism Day' at The Guardian

Are your domestic print apples as valuable as my global multimedia oranges?

How the Ian Tomlinson G20 video spread The Guardian brand across the media

Web search at the BBC: Part 9 - The end is the beginning is the end

Web search at the BBC: Part 8 - Editions of you

The PCC turns a deaf ear to complaints about press coverage of Alfie Patten

Web search at the BBC: Part 7 - Shake and crawl

Web search at the BBC: Part 6 - TV on the radio

Web search at the BBC: Part 5 - The path of least resistance

Web search at the BBC: Part 4 - Glass onion

Press silence on Alfie Patten DNA test result broken by Google News

Web search at the BBC: Part 3 - Centerfield

Web search at the BBC: Part 2 - Over the horizon radar

Web search at the BBC: Part 1 - The beginning is the end is the beginning

How not to approach a blogger for PR

The long road to the cinema

"An Open BBC?" at Broadcasting House

The Guardian's Open Platform launch

Guardian Open Platform launch trends on Twitter

3 key moments when the NUJ 'effing blogs' dust-up might have been avoided

Is 'internet news being free at the point of delivery' even still negotiable?

'Delivering Digital Britain' still too much about 'delivery'

The BBC's "Points Of View" online culture clash - Part 3

The BBC's "Points Of View" online culture clash - Part 2

The BBC's "Points Of View" online culture clash - Part 1

At least Daily Express readers are still searching for Madeleine McCann

Wireframing the front page: Part 5 - The Sun

Wireframing the front page: Part 4 - The Times

Wireframing the front page: Part 3 - The Daily Mail

Why the PCC is broken - a case study in trying to complain

Let's have a PCC for the 21st century

Navigating newspapers: Part 5 - The 'quality press'

Old media beats new media to breaking yesterday's news

Navigating newspapers: Part 3 - A question of sports

Navigating newspapers: Part 2 - Mapping primary navigation

"Digital Britain" around the blog'n'tweetosphere

Digital Britain Interim report - first impressions

Navigating newspapers: Part 1 - We are what we label

John Redwood's blog response to the Ofcom Public Service Broadcasting review

Ban this sick Nazi paedo filth!

Terrestrial TV's invisible online DEC Appeal

Jakob Nielsen on usability for journalists

Ofcom framing a digital content strategy in a vacuum

Are Ofcom's regional news funding proposals an opportunity for the local press?

'From programming to funding' - Ofcom's PSB documents as word clouds

President Obama coverage on the UK's regional press websites

Police try to stop Walthamstow blogger taking pictures of a bus crash

Channel 4's Andy Duncan calls for Internet regulation at NESTA event

6 other things newspapers could stop doing for a day to prove their "unique" value...

What is the collective noun for a group of atheist buses in London?

Thoughts, notes and quotes from the Online Information 2008 Seminars: Part 4

The Financial Times and "the worst online redesign I have ever seen"

Tom Dunmore of Stuff says print magazines have a future..."for the moment"

Protecting the identity of Baby P's killers: The courts vs the people vs the Internet

Insert your own lame "It's the end of the world as we know it" gag here

Newspapers and the movies: The past

Here we go again...not that bloggers vs journalists debate

"Can you trust a media blogger?"

Can you trust going to a 'Can you trust the media?' event for a good debate?

Reviewing the Instablogs 'citizen journalism' platform

The online fall-out of the Daily Express apology to Madeleine McCann's family

Woman's Own gets a print 'blog'

Sky News message board users get 'zapped'

24/7 TV news websites: Part 16 - "Most Popular"

24/7 TV news websites: Part 15 - Lateral and related navigation II

24/7 TV news websites: Part 14 - Lateral and related navigation I

24/7 TV news websites: Part 13 - Global navigation and classification

Some very British reporting of the Chania court case

24/7 TV news websites: Part 1 - Introduction

Voting for your American Idol in Greece

Finding, sharing, and playing with that Tony Palmer BBC rejection letter

Sky News give up on the hunt for Madeleine McCann

The Daily Express Inheritance Tax 'Crusade' re-writes British politics. And massages the numbers in the process.

Diana remembered on the BBC - nine years on from the 'One Year On' special



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