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• 05.23.08
  Sir Tim, I take it all back. With the glorious benefit of hindsight, you have an absolute killer of an application on your hands… General, Journalism | (6)

  There, apologies over. Humble pie delivered. Cos on my increasingly endless trips down to London of late, I did get to ponder rather more about what - exactly - the only UK-based winner of this year's Knight News Challenge was bringing to the party. Other than the man who invented the world-wide web. And so you poke around a little more in their successful entry; go back to the 'source' - http://www.mediastandardstrust.org/medianews/newsdetails.aspx?sid=15965 And read this... "The awards - for $350,000 - will go towards the development of tools to enable journalists, and those producing journalism, to distinguish their work from other content on the ...

  Tagged: Darren Huckerby, Knight News Challenge, Media Standards Trust, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 05.06.08
  Let’s be open and transparent about this – it’s a business pitch. One that’s all about being open and transparent… Advertising, General, MLW | (1)

  The on-going Darren Huckerby saga took another twist today; hence I've been rather tied up with the day job. And just as a matter of interest, football club and player organised an informal Press conference at Carrow Road this afternoon to which not 'everybody' was invited... But anyway, one of the themes that emerged out of last week's Journalism Leaders Forum in Preston - and certainly the dinner conversation that followed - was the growing role of transparency; how openness is coming to define more and more of what we do on the web. It was a fascinating conversation as far as the ...

  Tagged: addiply.com, Darren Huckerby, Fakenham, Journalism Leaders Forum, MyLocalWriter.com, Pilates
  
• 04.22.08
  If I want that regular access to a near-private conversation I have to get beyond the gate-keeper. And not everybody can do that… General, Journalism, MFW | (5)

  It's funny how you start to view your own daily, professional life through the eyes of this blog. That, every now and again, a penny that's dropped in theory, drops in practice. It did so again this afternoon in the unlikely surroundings of Archbishop Sancroft High School in Harleston. Why any of us were there in a mo; first to retrace our steps - or rather re-enter the 'Who, exactly, is a journalist?' fray and why, to my mind, Mayhill Fowler isn't. Who is Ms Fowler? Her moment of blog fame arrived last week and was siezed upon by Jay Rosen, among ...

  Tagged: Archbishop Sancroft High School, Clay Shirky, Darren Huckerby, Diss Express, Harleston, Here Comes Everybody, Jay Rosen, Mayhill Fowler, Neil McIntosh, Radio Norfolk, Stephanie Moore
  
• 04.21.08
  And, finally, someone at Auntie wakes up to the real story of the day… From first with the audio to last with the words. General, Journalism, MFW | (3)

  See below, but here's their problem... first with the audio, last with the words... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/norwich/7358178.stm For if the time-line is correct, Auntie had the interview for 36-hours before someone, somewhere spotted the story and wrote from what looks like a London, national perspective... Advantage lost.

  Tagged: BBC, Darren Huckerby, Radio Norfolk
  
• 04.20.08
  What one radio interview with my pal Hucks can teach us about the ways of this local digital world. General, Journalism, MFW, MLW | (1)

  Apologies first. For those of you with an interest in neither Norwich City Football Club nor Championship football, what follows may appear all-too parochial to be of any relevance to a new media blog. All I can do is beg that you stay with it for there are far wider points to be made - lessons with a direct relevance to us all as we try to re-organise and re-align ourselves on this new, digital landscape; how we try to go out and build our piece halls; how we weave our 1,000-word 'pieces' off our kitchen lap-tops and try to sell ...

  Tagged: BBCLocal, Darren Huckerby, ITVLocal, Northcliffe, Norwich City FC, Radio Broadland, Radio Norfolk, Radio Norwich, Trinity Mirror
  

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