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• 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
  
• 04.12.08
  Why geography may well become history as the Mums Army marches on without our Shirley General, Journalism | (8)

  It was one of those pub stories that you never quite believed; half of me suspected that it was one of those tall tales that would be told to cub reporters, as a matter of course. But anyway, when I first started my wood-staining career on the illustrious organ called the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald the story was that when it came to installing a sparkling new press beneath the Evening Adver' building in Swindon Old Town, someone was despatched to Germany to bag themselves the business print press-wise. The joke was that when it finally arrived it emerged that this new ...

  Tagged: Clay Shirky, David Cameron, Evening Advertiser, Here Comes Everybody, MumsNet, Shirley Mathias, Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
  
• 04.09.08
  Here Comes Everybody… And before they do, we need to remind everybody of what, exactly, we still do. General, Journalism | (4)

  This afternoon, having rummaged around the back of the telephone for a very dog-eared book token, I went out and bought Clay Shirky's new tome, 'Here Comes Everybody - The Power Of Organizing Without Organizations'. I haven't finished it. I've dipped and dabbled; a dangerous pursuit if I was a serious reviewer. I'm not. I'm a journalist by day; a writer, by night. The only thing the two have in common is the fact that, with either hat on, I employ the same means of distribution. You read both on a screen. I don't stain wood. Otherwise, the two - journalist and ...

  Tagged: Adam Smith, Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Journalism, Richmond Daily News, Washington Post
  

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