Marking has done a good job of getting in the way of things - shows up my inability to multi task doesn’t it - but i’ve been storing up one or two bits to go at thanks to Taboo. So here goes a brain dump on the theme of ownership- sorry
In a kind of last-in-last-out [...]

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Quite a lot came through the feed reader today - the increasing amount is begging for a day trimming my feeds- and rather than letting them languish as open tabs I thought I would do a quick round up.
Adam Tinworth takes the hint from Laura at Journalism.co.uk and ponders the idea of performance related pay [...]

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One of things about wordpress that is interesting and annoying in equal measure is the dashboard. For those who don’t wordpress: it’s the front page of the admin area.It’s got some useful stuff on there. But it is, for the most part, a feed for Wordpress news stories.
Now I often find myself clicking on them [...]

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Mark Hamilton has been pondering the video quality debate.
Commenting on Howard Owens’ ‘1 hour video’ view he saw the value of a competitive approach but:
I’m still tryng to reconcile his argument about better journalism with his earlier insistence that there’s no ROI on video that takes longer than an hour to shoot and edit. [...]

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Maybe I’ve had a long day, but I’ve just listened to the latest Read all about on Radio 4. In this episode, part of their series on the changing face of journalism, “Philippa Kennedy explores the growth in the local newspaper industry.”
She talks to regional journalists about their changing role and asks whether their [...]

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The video survey got me thinking about what defines us in journalism. Is it our skills, our job description or where our desk is in the office? Or is it something more than that?
Have a read this meditation on why being ‘brain damaged’ separates the pro from the mo photographers.
I couldn’t understand why people were putting [...]

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Whether you call it citizen journalism, crowd sourcing or USG, there is always a lot of discussion about how the media’s relationship with its audience can be used to everyone’s advantage.
And it struck me that for it to work , I think, journalists need to start thinking more like Evan Davis (the BBC’s economic editor) [...]

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I went to Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth at Tate Modern.
More pics here and here

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