Monthly Archives: October 2009

NY Times makes right noises on newsroom integration and serving under-35s

By Julie Starr | Published: October 26, 2009
Nieman Labs’ Zachary Seward ran an interesting post on the New York Times last week discussing comments made by executive editor Bill Keller in a meeting to digital staff. There were a few points that I was heartened to see. The first was this: The single best advice we’ve gotten, I think, is to spend [...]
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300 blogposts in 30 seconds… and counting

By Julie Starr | Published: October 21, 2009
This is nice way to lose a few minutes. It’s an embeddable widget that calculates current social media usage – the brainchild of a former BBC staffer Gary Hayes, who is now “director of LAMP in Sydney, Australia, CCO of MUVEDesign (a virtual world & game development company) and Consultant in Social & Transmedia to [...]
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Isaac Mao, China, 40 million blogs and counting

By Julie Starr | Published: October 21, 2009
I was very interested to hear from Chinese blogger and social media juggernaut Isaac Mao (@isaac) earlier today. Mao is in NZ for a few days thanks to support from the Asia NZ Foundation. He’s doing a flying tour of journalism schools, press interviews and meet and greets. It was great to be able to [...]
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Isaac Mao and Bernard Hickey are coming to Wintec

By Julie Starr | Published: October 16, 2009
Next week’s a doosy at Wintec because we’ve got two very interesting people coming to speak to students: financial journalist Bernard Hickey and China’s first blogger, Isaac Mao. Bernard Hickey, editor of interest.co.nz, has caught a fair amount of attention for the way he tirelessly promotes the site through his blog, Twitter and beyond. He [...]
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Woman charged with ‘neglecting blog’

By Julie Starr | Published: October 16, 2009
Nah, not really. I’ve been neglecting it with impunity. Why I can’t seem to whip up four presentations for four different audiences, write teaching content for 17 classes -  face to face and online  -  organise speaking events, speak at speaking events, attend meetings, maintain a blog, develop blogging ideas/sites for others, write stories, stay [...]
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