Monthly Archives: April 2008

‘Why not make the Indy a magazine?’

By Julie Starr | Published: April 16, 2008
If you haven't caught up with the appointment of former Observer editor Roger Alton as editor of the UK's Independent, here's a nice piece from the Guardian's Peter Wilby. And then comes this blog post from Richard Addis with a few suggestions for Alton as to what he might do with the Indy once he gets his shoes under the desk: Launch a daily magazine instead...
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NZ blog gets a boost from going into print

By Julie Starr | Published: April 16, 2008
Here's an interesting case study of a neighbourhood blog gaining some early success - in part because it's printed and delivered to local letterboxes. It's a NZ site called Flying Pickle (but thanks to UK blogger Seamus McCauley for the link) and it serves three suberbs outside Wellington - Korokoro, Maungaraki and Normandale - with an approximate population of 6,500 people: "peaceful, sleepy, middle class suburbs with a handful of local shops, 3 schools, 3 kindys, reasonable broadband penetration, a good deal of home-based businesses."
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RSS for beginners

By Julie Starr | Published: April 15, 2008
Every day's a good day for some Web2.0 for beginners from Common Craft. So here's RSS feeds in Plain English.
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Social media with a French accent

By Julie Starr | Published: April 13, 2008
"If the news is important enough, it will find me." That quote kicks off this video from San-Francisco-based entrepreneur and blogger Loic Le Meur. He's the (French) man behind Seesmic, a community video site that's currently in alpha testing and getting a fair amount of attention on places like Twitter.
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Using games to tell the news

By Julie Starr | Published: April 13, 2008
The Beat Bloggers - a group of US journalists who are experimenting with using social networks in newsgathering - have posted about using games to tell the news. This might sound a little odd at first but it soon starts to make sense - it's another way of engaging readers and letting them have their say about what's going on in the world. The post points to a game that ReadWriteWeb has been running:
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