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A belated welcome to MyFootballWriter ‘Lite’ and a few more lessons learned en route to over-throwing the bureaucrats.

13 March 2010 – 3:49 pm

Apologies in advance; there may be several strands of thinking afoot here that might not actually contribute to a coherent whole.
Part of this post is designed to explain what we’ve done with www.myfootballwriter.com of late; part of it is designed to publicly thank both Neil Mason (@Neil_Mason) and Philip John (@PhilipJohn) for their invaluable role [...]

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The trick is to understand ‘local’. Right now, some of us get it; some of us don’t. Matt Kelly does; LongStreet1980 doesn’t.

9 December 2009 – 12:18 pm

In amidst all the noise and thunder that surrounds Murdoch’s epic struggle to get Google’s nose out of his trough, this post from the WAN gathering in India last week got rather less attention than, IMHO, it deserved.
It also found me, briefly, sticking little pins into LongShanks1980 for revealing a little trait that is becoming [...]

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One final postscript to the BBC and the House of the Written Word; linking to ‘our’ video content might open another can of worms…

30 August 2009 – 11:11 pm

As Murdoch Jnr’s speech appears to be flavour of the month web-wise this weekend, I thought I might just add a little side-bar to yesterday’s post…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=317
… about the so-called ‘link economy’ on whose foundations we all, somehow, hope to rest.
As mentioned before, I don’t do video. I am strictly a house of the written word. [...]

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It’s when the BBC morphs itself into a Factory of the Written Word.. that’s when Murdoch Jnr hits a large nail on the head.

29 August 2009 – 2:54 pm

As you watch the tide of indignation that threatens to wash over the Murdoch clan this weekend, I can’t help feeling a touch of sympathy for James Murdoch.
Because in certain aspects, he is right. And some of what he is saying is long over-due.
And, I think, the danger is that we can get too carried [...]

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As the curtain falls on MyFootballWriter’s third season on the Norwich City ‘beat’, one or two lessons to be shared with Jeff’s pal, Amber…

6 May 2009 – 1:57 pm

First things first and due credit to Mr Jarvis for highlighting this post…
http://savethemedia.com/2009/05/02/how-journalism-can-change/
… because as the third, full season finishes for MyFootballWriter.com – or, at least, the /norwichcity part of the deal – so Amber’s post provides a very useful ‘tick box’ as to what we may or may not have achieved in our time [...]

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Two new words for our Addiply revolution – caveat vendor. And why, hopefully, the world might belong to those that live in the Era of Pixelization.

25 February 2009 – 11:11 pm

Having finally got my Twitter-ass into gear and kick-started www.twitter.com/MrRickWaghorn into life – as opposed to servicing ‘backchat and #ncfc’s needs via my alter ego @MFWrickw – I duly stumbled on what the rest of the world was talking about tonight.
Or rather what @craigmcginty and @vagueware were.
This… http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_reboot
I must admit I’ve skimmed through the last [...]

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Why a spot of ‘Kitemark’ thinking needs to happen; and why Sir Tim, Martin and Knight were always spot on

24 January 2009 – 6:04 pm

We’ve long been admirers of their work; even if it was a bit grudging in the very first instance as we watched our hopes of picking up some serious Knight News Challenge funding last year disappear beneath the waves of applause that greeted some bloke called Sir Tim Berners Lee…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=70
But, with hindsight, I think me [...]

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Dear Mr Cuban… I was interested to read your thoughts on establishing a beatwriters co-operative in the United States…

12 January 2009 – 5:11 pm

The other resolution we had blog-wise for 2009 was to try and not start every other post with the word ‘interesting’. Even if it is.
So in a bid to turn over a new leaf, that is fascinating.
http://blogmaverick.com/2008/12/24/why-pro-sports-need-newspapers/
Before we start to dissect Mr Cuban’s thoughts on where next for networked sports reporting in the US, a [...]

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On local, on link and on the future of newspapers… three big and familiar nails that Mark Potts bangs firmly on the head. Superb.

19 September 2008 – 1:55 pm

I’ve always been a fan; and remain so.
He might have once-upon-a-time ‘run out of track…’ but, boy, does he know where the world is going. He remains firmly on the right track.
So, if I was being lazy, I would do nothing more than commend each and everyone of you to read the following three posts [...]

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We have a blog audience from whom no secrets should be hid: We wound up MFW/Colchester yesterday…

3 September 2008 – 8:03 pm

Given the fact that we’ve charted the rise and – potentially – impending fall of many an old media empire on this blog, it would be a bit rich if we didn’t mention our own death in the family.
Openness, transparency, honesty, humour, warmth and humility – these are the kind of words that here at [...]

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