I’m not going to lie, this made me smile.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICpM3ItIhI0[/youtube]
Apparently it’s a homage to the “notion of independence and independent reporting”. No really. Gizomodo Editor, Brian Lam says so
[b]loggers and trade journalists, so desperate for a seat at the table with big mainstream publications have it completely backwards: You don’t get more access by selling out [...]

• CommentsGizomodo%3A+We+are+proper+journalism2008-01-16+10%3A00%3A24Andy

Today I closed down my Facebook account. Like many others on the web I read Tom Hodgkinson’s piece on the people behind Facebook in Monday’s Guardian. Scary stuff. A rant? Facebook snobbery?
I don’t know. Maybe just the excuse I needed to reduce the amount of online life to manage. Do I lose some digital journalism [...]

• CommentsThe+Guardian+made+me...2008-01-15+10%3A00%3A29Andy

Adrian Monck - views on the news biz
The latest Journalism Carnival. Hosted by Adrian Monck
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Announcing the launch of Journalism Enterprise.com « Online Journalism Blog
Today I am launching a sister site to the Online Journalism Blog: Journalism Enterprise.com will review websites that are attempting to make money from journalism in the new media age. [...]

• Commentslinks+for+2008-01-142008-01-14+23%3A29%3A57Andy

(This post is my , shockingly late, contribution to the January Carnival of Journalism. Your host this month is Adrian Monck. )

Predictably a lot of the recent chatter in the j-blogasphere has been around Paul Conley’s post . What did it say? I paraphrase here, suggested that you cant teach the web so if people [...]

• CommentsJournalism+Gnostics2008-01-14+18%3A48%3A46Andy

I’m getting better and better and resisting gadgets (apart from my i-phone purchase this year). But a little technology porn for the weekend never goes a miss.
So here goes.

Camera add ons from Redrock micro

Lots of people getting excited about these Ipod based recording solutions - Podcast and music/studio recording.

Pinnacle Video Transfer allows you [...]

• CommentsObjects+of+desire2008-01-12+19%3A05%3A23Andy

So I was reading the Stormhoek wine blog. ( the web2.0 wine company apparently)
Then I was checking my feeds and clicked to a post over at Shooting by numbers - Democratization of media - secret knowledge. Then I saw GapingVoid in the blog roll. That looks interesting. I click it.
Amongst other things Great little [...]

• CommentsEverything+is+connected2008-01-12+16%3A38%3A22Andy

How important is it for new journalism graduates to have their own blog? « Online Journalism Blog
“students blog while they’re told to, but the majority stop once the teaching ends. It’s like someone saying they want to be a musician, but refusing to play any gigs until they sign a record deal.” This is so [...]

• Commentslinks+for+2008-01-112008-01-11+23%3A23%3A52Andy

David Dunkley Gyimah left a comment on my post about video illustration that gave me pause for thought (Dave is good at that). He pondered the different directions videojournalism seems to be taking.
It might seem that we’re all at the same bus stop, even if not at same geographical grid - sorry, Matrix moment.
It’s funny, [...]

• CommentsHow+I%27ve+come+to+love+Videojournalism2008-01-11+12%3A00%3A15Andy