Last in my (just invented) Day’o’screengrabs. Those of you using wordpress may have seen, via the dashboard, that Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence. Cue a lot of comments from Toyota driving reps.
From the screengrab above you can see that they haven’t quite got the excerpts sorted yet [...]

• CommentsTop+Gear+on+Wordpress2008-06-25+20%3A24%3A51Andy

Oooh. It’s been a real screen grab day today.
I deal with a range of different types of journalism day-by day. The geeks and the dead tree lot seem to be the most vocal in my life at the moment. Of course the luvvies from broadcast land are getting closer to seeing what is going on. [...]

• CommentsPublish+your+own+magazine2008-06-25+17%3A31%3A00Andy

I like Sky News. Everything is important. Even stuff that isnt. So I was keen to see the beta of their new news site and, thanks to Martin Stabe, here it is:

This is big bold stuff - shouting, thunderous music and serious suits stuff. I swear the screen of my laptop tipped back a little [...]

• CommentsSky+news+beta+-+the+shouty+news+online2008-06-25+14%3A02%3A23Andy

A nice interactive graphic from USA today. And the Louise at the JPdigital digest has a pointer to Poynter and an article about USA Todays interactive team

• CommentsReligious+beliefs+and+practices+interactive+graphic2008-06-25+10%3A36%3A33Andy

The Big Picture - Boston.com
Loving this site.
(tags: photography news blog journalism daily)

• Commentslinks+for+2008-06-242008-06-24+23%3A32%3A17Andy

Isn’t twitter great (when it’s working). Mark Comerford shared a link to a report on an EU report - no, no, keep reading, honest it’s good (and not about the Irish referendum.)
The report goes under the title of DRAFT REPORT on concentration and pluralism in the media in the European Union (PDF link) that’s (2007/2253(INI)) [...]

• CommentsThe+EU%2C+blogging%2C+community+and+ownership2008-06-24+20%3A59%3A42Andy

Picture from Flickr user Huladancer
This has been sitting in my list of things to blog on, so with a bit of delay, here is an interesting bit of data from a recent report on digital journalism from a couple of PR companies.
[T]he study has uncovered a ‘40/40 Factor’ in action - 41% of respondents now [...]

• CommentsNewspaper+video%3A+Playtime+%3D+happy+journos2008-06-24+18%3A32%3A13Andy

Delaying News in the Era of the Internet - NYTimes.com
How NBC edited wikipedia to maintain a broadcast tradition.
(tags: NYtimes wikipedia nbc)

• Commentslinks+for+2008-06-232008-06-23+23%3A32%3A00Andy