Like a container of good advice washed up on the webshore, Tomski provides an insight in to the BBC’s web 2.0 approach with 15 guidelines we should all pick over and take away something interesting from.
1. Build web products that meet audience needs
2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well
3. [...]

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A great article by Robin Good that may be of interest bearing in mind all the discussion about learning how this disruptive stuff works to inform our approach
It is now easier than ever to sell your pictures online, regardless of whether you are a professional photographer, or an everyday person armed with your camera-phone. In [...]

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Here’s an interesting set of statistics.
YouTube vs. Evening News: Seventy-percent said they would rather watch the evening news coverage instead of a citizen video report on an event. Though, only one year after YouTube burst onto the scene, fully 25% of those 18-49 years old would chose citizen video. Only 10.3% of those 65 or [...]

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Journalism.co.uk reports that the Press Complaints Commision (PCC) is to extend its regulation of UK newspaper content to include AV content published on newspaper sites.
The PCC already regulates online editions of UK newspapers and an announcement about the extension of the commission is expected in the next few weeks.

The news came during an interview with [...]

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The European Journalism Training Association has released a handbook aimed at those training journalists to work in multiple mediums.
The “Tri-Medial Competences in Local Journalism” is a three-part publication created to train European journalists to work with converging print/audio/video mediums in the age of the internet. The publication includes a curriculum manual discussing convergent-media competencies, a [...]

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In a recent post I picked up on an article an article in the Washington Post about the break-up of the relationships between newspaper and TV companies. Mindy McAdams, amongst others, had also picked up on this and offers a perspective with her typical clarity, and experience.
Many people, including me, had few or no [...]

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Recently I posted some half-formed thoughts on types of video online -Note to self: Maybe a blog post isn’t the place to push out un-defined thoughts. Howard and Ryan kindly commented on a few aspects of it and gave me more food for thought.
So here is my ‘new and improved’ types of video content on [...]

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A very nice tutorial on making fancy pie charts in illustrator from Modern Life is Rubbish. There is a second part on custom fills.

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