I’ve been thinking about how journalists, community and audience interact and the problems that cuases. I do think that the media see audience and communities differently - that’s one of the problems.
Some rambly posts may follow.
UPDATE: Thanks to Kevin Anderson a less rambly post did appear.

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A number of browser tabs to consume already today - damn the reader. But rather than tag them all to delicious I thought I would give them a bit more discussion (a la Mark and his Daily squibs)
Speaking of things ‘a la’. Richard Titus over at the BBC internet blog has been thinking flattery rather [...]

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Here is a little quote to start the post.
“If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.”
Responding to the general discussion about who is working the digital news vein, Pat Thornton has posted another take on the problems with management pointing out that Management should reflect demographics [...]

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Just got home after ducking out of the Journalism Leaders forum which went under the title “Why isn’t more media translating into more money for mainstream media companies?”
The panelists where Chris Anderson of ‘The Long Tail’ fame, Anton Grutzmacher of Hitwise, Peter Kirwan of the Press Gazette’s Media Money and Rick Waghorn of www.myfootballwriter.com.
Anderson couldn’t [...]

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I was browsing around the web today looking at articles about Twitter. In that rambling way you get when click through links I came across unphotographable. Here is an entry that does a pretty good job of describing what it’s all about.
This is a picture I did not take of a homeless man who was [...]

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Having come across too many posts, tweets etc.  that talk about the future of mobile. I have a quick thought
I agree there is a future there. No doubt. But the is it going to be driven by content?
Is it just me or is it fairly obvious that the answer is no.
The people who own the [...]

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Yesterday a colleague asked me what crowdsourcing was. So I chattered on about pothole maps, and crowdsource maps, pertrol and CD prices. As I was talking I realised that on the surface a lot of the subject areas seemed pretty mundane. Not the kind of thing you would win a pulitzer for.
Later on in the [...]

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Anyone who has a presence on the web will know that spam is a pain. All those offers of replica watches and, well, smuttier stuff.
So it was heartening (or perhaps a sign of the popularity of the site) that CNN’s ireport has got people looking at the web and learning from what they see. Take [...]

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