Beat Blogging - Using a blog as a conversation starter to engage users
“Some posts simply serve to be conversation starters”. I agree but would say that all posts should be conversation otherwise its just shovelware.
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The formula shows that the lines are the same colour as the car.
I don’t watch a lot of TV when it broadcasts, I tend to catch it online, on digital replay or on repeat on one of the many digital TV channels. I’m in to timeshift rather than tivo. But I happened to be channel [...]

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I was tootling around the web looking at some of the sites that Alex pointed out in his post about environmental journalism. I was especially taken with them Manchesterismyplanet site (nice map thing) and the  Planet St Helens site and wondered how much involvement the local press had with them:
So a quick Google got me [...]

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Take a look at this list

Deals in the real, the tangible, the directly imaginable
Speaks the language of collective action, in contrast to the disempowered individualism of ‘small actions’ at the national level
Addresses the individual as a member of a community, as opposed to a citizen of the planet
Speaks peer-to-peer rather than from the standpoint of [...]

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A quick post to say congratulations to the students who did well at the Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards. Students won in the radio journalist of the year and student team of the year categories. Well done to them and all involved.
A special mention though to Frida Larsson who won Student Multimedia Journalist of the [...]

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50 Niche Search Engines That Will Make Your Everyday Life Easier
Or generate more information to worry about. A good resource though. Thanks to Martin Bellam
(tags: search web)

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JP Digital Digest: SPOTLIGHT - MAPS
Louise has a nice round up of resources for mapping
(tags: maps jpdigital)

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Online Journalism Blog » Semantic Journalism: Ideas
The OJB start a four part series on Semnatics. Horray. Perfectly timed for the lectures I’m writing.
(tags: technology journalism future semantix)

The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 3 - Story layout and download footprint - currybetdotnet - 25 June, 2008
Another great series from Martin. Thanks Martin. I’m still waiting for [...]

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