*UPDATED* Bloggers, Tory MEPs and why political parties should be worried
One of the findings from my research into agenda-setting and political bloggers in the UK earlier this year was that there is a distinct blurring of the roles between infuential journalists/media and...
View ArticleTelegraph’s web traffic chasing secrets revealed by Private Eye
One of the few paper publications I still buy (jndeed subscribe to) is Private Eye, the UK’s only satirical magazine. In this fortnight’s ‘Street of Shame’ (the section exposing the often shallow...
View ArticleTelegraph.co.uk’s SEO – Shane Richmond responds
I posted earlier this week about a story in Private Eye about Telegraph.co.uk ensuring their news stories are chock full of realtime SEO key word goodness. Well, I asked the Telegraph’s Communities...
View ArticleIs Knol *really* the great Wikipedia-killler?
Doc Searls is the first to echo some of my initial (private) scepticism about Google’s Wikipedia rival, Knol. Knol "aims to include user-written articles on a range of topics".or as Search Engine...
View ArticleInterpreting Media Trust: The Devil is in the Detail
Claire from media measurement firm, Metrica, sent me some survey findings that reveal the “pulse” of the UK’s trust in media. Claire pulls out two interesting findings for discussion: the increased...
View ArticleSocial Media: Changing Organisations One Crisis at a Time
There’s a school of thought that believes that major internal changes only occur through external events – often political or financial – that have a major or cataclysmic impact on the organisation....
View ArticleCrowd-sourcing the future of media
One of the things I [heart] about the internet is its ability to totally democratise the production and distribution of knowledge and information. Reading George Monbiot's (somewhat difficult to...
View ArticleHave we finally breached the symbolic ‘real media’ vs social media divide?
There's an interesting post over at the Journalism.co.uk blog where they are trying to crowd source the perfect press release. The post offers some great press release-writing tips for people new to...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Dick Fedorcio, Met Police blogger engagement and my part in it…
figures likely to show rise….. Queen at First World War memorial….. Childcare tax breaks revolt grows….. DNA profile database plans unveiled….. Washington sniper put to death….. 46% think...
View ArticleDaily Mail snoops on people online and steals their content
A few weeks ago the Daily Mail caused a bit of a brouhaha by accusing brands that monitored social media to help identify and solve customer’s problems of “snooping” and “spying”. I really can’t get...
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