A few things that crossed my radar recently. A rant about the failings of tech news and the (lack of) incentives causing it. From louisgray.com. I believe “fast food news” also can refer to the mass hysteria over making sure every site posts the news that a major browser or a major operating system has [...]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
ReadWriteWeb have done a nice end-of-year profile on Common Craft, the folk who make the 'In Plain English' videos. It's a nice read and the part about why Common Craft decided to move away from its custom video service into its current licencing business model is interesting:
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Not at all surprised to read tonight that ReadWriteWeb has done a deal with the New York Times to provide syndicated technology stories. It's a terrific achievement for ReadWriteWeb, showing it's well and truly come of age as an authoritative source of technology news. And it's a smart move by the New York Times to accept it can't be all things to all technology readers and join forces with another supplier.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
ReadWriteWeb posts about Technorati's latest breakdown of the blogosphere and disagrees that the figures show blogging has become mainstream.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Speaking of the need for news organisations to find and distribute stories out where people naturally congregate online, CNN is taking a leap along that pathway by allowing its video to be embedded.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Interesting to see that US blogsite Huffington Post is branching out into local news (via ReadWriteWeb).
Sunday, 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:
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Richard MacManus's review of Alltop on ReadWriteWeb this week caught my eye for two reasons - the site seems worthy of exploration and he took a swipe at mainstream media's portrayal of blogs. Alltop is a simple-to-use site designed to make reading stories and blogs from across the web easier for people who've yet to get to grips with RSS feeds.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
I was just reading a ReadWriteWeb post about rebooting CVs to bring them up to date for today's market and it chimed with me. I've been thinking for a while that I'd like to see journalists move to using online CVs, especially if it links to evidence of their digital citizenry - blog, published stories, pictures, videos, social bookmarks, social networks and so on.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
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