I stood up in front of a room of PR people last night… and survived. Only joking. I was asked by the CAPSIG organisation to offer a view on digital media. Below is the presentation, which probably need a bit of context. It was centrally around the challenges that we as a publisher have faced [...]
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News innovation… or extinction?
Latest in irregular series on the state of journalism
I managed to attend two events in the same week run by the organisation NESTA. After being less than complimentary about last Monday’s Reboot Britain event (see last post) I was somewhat concerned about Friday’s News Innovation. I had no reason to worry. This was an ‘unconference’ [...]
Twitter – opportunities and dangers
I like many others am becoming worryingly addicted to the social media phenomenon that is Twitter. The reactions of some colleagues and friends is to pat me on the head and wonder about my sanity. The perception of the site as a home for online silliness and pointlessness is not helped by some reactionary coverage [...]
On optimism
Sundays are largely for relaxing, eating, walking, watching sport…. and scaring yourself silly by reading the news and comment sections of your preferred newspaper. Mine, as any self respecting woolly liberal would have it, is the Observer. So I was presented yesterday with some wrist-slitting examples when I finally got to said section (after escapism [...]
