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• 10.30.09
  The more I see, the more I know; the more I know, the less I understand… (P Weller, Changing Man). This, however, I do understand… Advertising, General, Journalism, MFW | (0)

  Mr Matt Waring and I have yet to come up with a catchy name; but we're pondering doing our own conference thing come the New Year. But it'll have something to do with elephants. As in the big one in the room. The one no-one really likes to mention. I suspect, like most good ideas in the history of www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity and www.addiply.com inspiration will only come via a spot of lubrication. But, anyway, the point is that we are beginning to think that it is high time we started to address said elephant in room and, grabbing the bull by both horns, ask ...

  Tagged: Addiply, MyFootballWriter.com, TheLichfieldBlog
  
• 05.27.09
  A silo is not just geographical; you can have a silo of time and deadline too. Just ask the sports editor of the Reading Post… General, Journalism, MFW | (2)

  The trials and tribulations of the Guardian Media Group's provincial 'wing' - be it either the Manchester Evening News or the Reading Evening Post - have long been of interest. If only cos you kind of presumed that within that arena might be folk who 'get' it more than most. In fact, there's no 'might'. Some clearly do. And with no shareholders to keep in dividends - only The Guardian and The Observer to keep 'safe' in the lasting spirit of The Scott Trust - so their actions may be more 'pure' of web economic heart than one or two others. They haven't got ...

  Tagged: Guardian Media Group, MyFootballWriter.com, Reading Chronicle
  
• 04.27.09
  The BBC head to Mr Burnham’s table tomorrow bearing a few gifts for us all. And being this fledgling written content network, I might even be able to give them one back… Journalism, MFW | (2)

  This is interesting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/26/bbc-share-local-media On a number of fronts; not least in the fact that someone, somewhere has found me a ticket to tomorrow's ball and so alongside '... Helen Boaden, the BBC's head of news, and David Holdsworth, controller of the English regions, as well as other industry executives and the National Union of Journalists....' will be yours truly. Given that I'm a big fan of the Tom Hanks film 'Big', I have this image of me being sat round some corporate table at Portcullis House tomorrow, gingerly poking my hand in the air and saying: 'I don't get it...' ...

  Tagged: Archant, BBC, MyFootballWriter.com, Newsquest, Northcliffe
  
• 04.08.09
  Now the Wall St Journal ponders the same kind of thoughts as Mr Cuban and his Mavericks, that the time might be nigh for a ‘beat writers co-operative’… General, Journalism, MFW | (1)

  This piece is fascinating. And, yes, I know I say that all the time. But it is. Particularly for anyone who spent a few quid the other year on www.mybasketballwriter.com. Along with www.mybaseballwriter.com and www.myhockeywriter.com. Just in case... Anyway, here we go... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123906424665995337.html Basically, for those of you tired of linking, the two authors are starting to chart the decline and fall of the sports 'beat' reporter... the US basketball writing fraternity in this case. Those charged with following the city's basketball team 'on the road' for a season. Just as I've been 'on the road' for 16 years with Norwich City; first on behalf of ...

  Tagged: MyFootballWriter.com, WSJ
  
• 03.11.09
  So what would a Guardian OpenPlatform do for me? Well I’ll have a BMW ad please, Alan, and you can have a Hatters match report by way of return… Advertising, Journalism, MFW, MLW | (0)

  As anyone who has ever had the misfortune to sit through one of my flip-chart scribble shows... Paul and Co at JEECamp, two boys from Barclays, six people at www.2gether08.com and four people in a Guardian office in Farringdon Road among them... I'm a fairly simple soul. I do all my scribbles on the back of the nearest beer mat and/or fag packet. And I'm still, basically, a provincial football hack at heart. The day job is www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity. And one thing I will never be is a techie. Don't ask me how it works; all I want to know is whether it actually ...

  Tagged: Addiply, BBC, MEN, MyFootballWriter.com, MyLocalWriter.com, The Guardian
  
• 03.09.09
  The question is for how long will those gentlemen’s agreements hold? And who of the Secret Seven will be the first to nibble at a networked survival? General, Journalism, MFW | (1)

  One of the many 'jobs to do' on www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity is to replace that static pic on the home page with a TV feed. So we can start showing YouTube clips of Darren Huckerby in action in San Jose, for example. That and see if, in the spirit of working with the local independents, we can't start to do a little content sharing with the BBC. After all, there is an onus on them now to start to out-source some of their local content provision and what could be more valuable and useful to them than a 'beat' football reporter? Turning all those ...

  Tagged: BBC, Guardian Media Group, LMA, MyFootballWriter.com, TrinityMirror
  
• 03.07.09
  Blind, Stupid and Dumb Part:II. Well done, ShuttleBoy, you spotted where next for the LMA and what was being cooked up at tea with his Lordship at Claridge’s General, Journalism, MFW | (0)

  Last night's news that Archant (Norfolk) was to shed 54 jobs out of an editorial staff of 179 should, in theory, prompt a response here on OutWithABang. It is, after all, my local patch. But I'm not going to go there. Too close to home. When your Mrs is one of those staring down the barrel of a redundancy gun - let alone dozens of other decent individuals whom you happily worked alongside for 13 years - it's all too raw. So, no. Instead, I've found myself picking over the bones of Roy's piece on the emergence of the LMA onto the playing ...

  Tagged: BBC, LocalMediaAlliance, MyFootballWriter.com
  
• 02.26.09
  Two pints at The Artichoke later and the world suddenly looks a different place; should it be app first, browser later? General, Journalism | (2)

  The Artichoke at Brome now needs a second blue plaque, me thinks. http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=20 A bit of background before we get to the 'light bulb' moment. Our Ian has been otherwise engaged of late; he of Addiply-build fame, has been banging out Apple iPhone apps... the latest of which is 'Cocktails Made Easy'. The lad from the WSJ certainly liked it... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123336498619035515.html And having sat there in the corner table at The Artichoke this lunchtime and seen it in action on Ian's iPhone, I can see why. The fact that you can touch a 'cabinet' button and find out what cocktails you can still make from their 500-strong ...

  Tagged: Addiply, Apple iPhone, MyFootballWriter.com
  
• 01.22.09
  Three cheers for the NUJ; deciding the time may now be upon us when the green shoots need nurturing; that fighting this forest fire might be beyond anyone’s means General, Journalism | (0)

  Fair play to Mr Dear. And a thank you, too. It's cheering, occasionally, to be a little blip on someone else's radar. http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/533301.php Because as my NUJ card-carrying Mrs waits to discover what filling out a time-sheet for a week means for our family's fortunes this spring, it's good to see the NUJ sensing that there is a common cause to be had here; that maybe the answer to some of the challenges we, as journalists, face in 2009 might have to come from within our own ranks... ... that the reinvention might have to be as much about the way that we, ourselves, ...

  Tagged: MyFootballWriter.com, NUJ
  
• 01.22.09
  Government reveals that it has £100 mill’s worth of advertising up its sleeve; some of which could be redirected to fund new, independent start-ups. Like us VIPs? Advertising, General | (0)

  Nicked it out of the The Guardian's live blog of events from Oxford... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/jan/22/1 "Richard Allan, chair of the Government's Power of Information Review, pointed out that central Government spends around £100m on advertising each year, and argued that some of that advertising could be placed on small websites as a way of funding their development..." Well, well, well. And, lo, there was a light at the end of the tunnel... Who knows, even a pot of Government gold at the end of that digital, postcode rainbow...? http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=219 I'll get our Kev to give him a bell now. "MyFootballWriter/NorwichCity... 40,000 monthly uniques; seven minute average engagement time; ...

  Tagged: MyFootballWriter.com
  

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