It’s been three years since I started this blog.  The first (on topic)  post was back in 2006 and it was a short post blogging Katie Couric’s move to NBC which prompted Newsweek to ponder if “the real action in TV news may be happening on the Web” To say a lot has happened since [...]

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CNN’s ireport has posed an interesting question Faced with declining readership and a worsening economy, many newspapers are grappling with whether to stop the presses. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News recently closed its doors, while the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online-only format. How does this affect you? Do you read the newspaper every morning [...]

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Here is what I’ve been scanning today whilst getting my head around validation paperwork The FT newsroom in 2009 – The FT release a document outlining what they are going to do next in their newsroom I predict a lot of newspaper execs getting their assistants to download this. :) FT Newsroom 2009 changes – [...]

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Yes, the iphone gets version 3.0 and some new features with it. I wouldn’t normally post about this, but it’s a chance to try the BBC’s embedded video again. I’m so glad that I can embed this rather than the full presentation video where, I swear, the presentation ‘jazz-hands’ of the speakers was going to [...]

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The big read today, for everyone, has been Clay Shirky’s essay on thinking the unthinkable . A more cogent discussion of the issues around newspapers would be hard to find. Lots chimed with me and to pick one part to quote kind-of defeats the structure of the piece. So worth a read though. Round and [...]

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Adam Westbrook is a radio journalists who has been experimenting with video. He has a great post on his blog about how tricky juggling the needs of different mediums can be and, as the picture above proves, he wasn’t just trying this out at the local council meeting. He has a nice set of tips [...]

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Here isa lost of things that have caught my eye over the last week or so: Digital Diversity: bloggers and polymaths « Running, jumping, climbing trees… – Peter Moor offers his “five attributes that I think an ambitious blogger would do well to have” MediaPost Publications Moving From Interruption To Involvement 03/11/2009 – More video [...]

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Thanks to @ourman for the tiwtter tip off for this great post at AfriGadget about Alfred Sirleaf, Liberia’s Blackboard Blogger. Alfred serves as a reminder to the rest of us, that simple is often better, just because it works. The lack of electricity never throws him off. The lack of funding means he’s creative in [...]

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