Inside Guardian.co.uk: guardian.co.uk goes geotagging and gets Google maps
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 12:57
Paul Carvill: "We have published our first article containing geolocation data! We introduced this feature in the US Elections blog pages to track our reporters as they travel with the presidential election campaigns. On those pages you can see a Google map with the points marked where our reporter wrote a blogpost. … . We are using the GeoRSS Simple location encoding standard."
Hitwise: The cult of Robert Peston and BBC blogs
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 21:41
Robin Goad: "UK Internet searches for ‘robert peston’ have shot up over the last month."
Lost Remote: Our hyperlocal experiment and why it works
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 19:58
"Ten months later, My Ballard has exploded in popularity beyond our wildest expectations, surpassing the weekly neighborhood newspaper in monthly reach (unique users compared to the paper’s physical subscription base.) We’ve even launched similar blogs in surrounding neighborhoods with the help of friends and friends of friends, forming a news blog network covering the core of Seattle’s fastest-growing communities."
Broadcast: Behind the business: Robert Peston
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 10:42
"[Robert Peston] also makes excellent use of his blog. Before the internet, the BBC would have had nowhere for him to go into things in greater depth and it might have been hard to have persuaded him to come to the BBC. Instead, he can also write the kind of stuff he's used to producing for an informed audience."
Guardian: Michael White on how to write a blog
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 21:52
"[A] blogger must be careful with facts, even bad spelling can shatter the illusion of authority. He/she must be prepared to defend every fact and opinion - or apologise. … Above all, a blogger must have a thick skin. It's tough out there, but also fun. Among the hooligans there are clever, decent people who simply want to tell you things you didn't know."
TechCrunch: State Of The Blogosphere: Get To 100K Uniques, Make $75K/year
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 08:19
"Technorati … conducted a random survey of 1,079 random bloggers (a statistically significant sample) to paint a more detailed picture of just who exactly is out there blogging…"
Reportr.net: How blogarbage gives blogs a bad name
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 13:45
Dismissing blogs because of sites like Perez Hilton "is like dismissing magazines because of the trashy magazines at the supermarket checkout. Blogging is a platform. Blogs are a form of media native to the web that shares some characteristics, such as an informal, personal and conversational tone. But the nature of the content is up to the blogger."
Lost Remote: Seattle PI bloggers jump to Business Journal
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 21:27
"Folks at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are stunned today after the newspaper’s top two technology reporters/bloggers simultaneously quit to join the Puget Sound Business Journal. John Cook (Venture Blog) and Todd Bishop (the Microsoft Blog) turned in their resignations and are headed to the Business Journal for an 'entrepreneurial venture'"
One Man and His Blog: “That’s Interesting” is the Base Unit of Blogging
Monday, 1 September 2008, 17:05
Adam Tinworth: "One of the stock ideas I use when training journalists to blog is that the basic currency of the blog is the thought 'that's interesting'. Everything you post to a blog is something you find interesting and want to share with others, be it a link, an article, a photo or a video."
Mediabistro: E&P, America’s Oldest Newspaper Journal, Blogs
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 09:36
"Editor & Publisher, the stodgy journal with its eye ever fixed on the newspaper industry, will 'finally' enter the world of blogging." And I worried that PG was behind the curve…
Editor & Publisher: Bill Proposed to Extend N.Y. Shield Law to Bloggers
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 08:12
New York state Sen. Thomas Duane has "proposed legislation that would protect bloggers from contempt-of-court charges for refusing to disclose confidential information or sources."
Digital Disruption
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 15:37
The new blog by Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Strategy and Development at the Guardian Media Group.
New York Times: Voices From the Suburban Blogosphere
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 23:37
"Many [bloggers in the suburbs] have let their sites go untended, but a few have built serious local journalism operations, while others have developed a following on certain topics and bask in the muted limelight of Internet fame."
News Tracker Blog: The Robert Knilands interview
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 09:27
Brian Cubbison of the Syracuse Post-Standard interviews Robert "Wenalway" Knilands, one of the more, um, outspoken commenters on many journalism blogs.
