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• 03.21.10
  An open letter to Sir Tim and his new best pals at Vodafone: One way in which we might empower Africa to pay their own way web-wise… Advertising, General | (2)

  Like the rest of modern humanity, I've long walked in the shadow of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Our paths almost crossed in Vegas one-time as a combination of MyLocalWriter and Addiply made it to the final round of the 2008 Knight News Challenge only to be pipped at the post by Sir Tim and Martin Moore with their 'kite-mark' thinking. 'Pipped', as in by a country mile. For me, it remains a killer application as we all seek to prove our worth and our value out there in Web-land. http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2008/05/23/sir-tim-i-take-it-all-back-with-the-glorious-benefit-of-hindsight-you-have-an-absolute-killer-of-an-application-on-your-hands/ Whether our paths do ever cross again remains a wholly moot point; Sir Tim is ...

  Tagged: Africa, Google, Sir Tim Berners Lee, Vodafone, www.24.com
  
• 07.09.09
  Why I suspect Christmas might have come a little earlier this year for Martin, Sir Tim and the MediaStandardsTrust… General, Journalism | (0)

  Tomorrow I'm leaving my little Norfolk fastness and making this week's foray into the Big Bad Smoke to attend this... http://newsinnovationlondon.eventbrite.com/ Hosted by Martin Moore and the MediaStandardsTrust, it promises to be an interesting afternoon - not least for the fact that the words 'media', 'standards' and 'trust' will be all the Twitter trending rage on the back of #murdochgate and the inevitable storm that is about to engulf News International. Not to mention the PCC, the Metropolitan Police, David Cameron et al... For a House of Commons that has itself just been put through the media mincer over the whole issue of MPs' ...

  Tagged: Addiply, NewsInternational, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 01.24.09
  Why a spot of ‘Kitemark’ thinking needs to happen; and why Sir Tim, Martin and Knight were always spot on General, Journalism | (2)

  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 and Neil 'got' where they were going... And the impact it could have upon those of us who actually made it to the journalistic coal-face and dug out fresh quotes for themselves, as opposed to those who figured they could re-hash, re-nose and repeat for a ...

  Tagged: Knight News Challenge, Martin Moore, MyFootballWriter, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 08.22.08
  Thoughts on the food chain proposed by Mr Potts and Co; on how we might be the plankton for Whoville suburbia to thrive on… General, Journalism | (1)

  I'm a big fan of Mark Potts - even if his 'We were on the right track, just ran out of track...' line still haunts my every move. His latest blog post on the fate of the 'Whoville Bugle' is excellent; and the likely media eco-system that might replace it... http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2008/08/what-will-happen-when-the-presses-go-silent.html#comments The comment from WorkingReporter is even better; it gets right to the heart of where we need to get to - working out how to reward the content creators; where is the value in what we do... "Forget about newspaper vs blog vs web site vs citizen media. These labels are irrelevant. The ...

  Tagged: David Cushman, Mark Potts, Sir Tim Berners Lee, WorkingReporter
  
• 08.08.08
  Here we go – something for all those 76ers, Phillies and Flyers fans out there… General, Journalism, MFW | (1)

  In retrospect, the fact that we came up short in this year's 2008 Knight News Challenge is probably just as well. It wouldn't, for example, have allowed me to find common cause with Messrs Bradshaw and Hood one weekend in Birmingham; for us to look at eachother every time we now meet and shake our weary heads... Hopefully, there's two, new media mates I've made courtesy of the Knight Foundation... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=70 OutWithABang might not, of course, have ever seen the light of day had we not had to suddenly throw some big rocks around the place on the back of missing out on ...

  Tagged: Jeff Jarvis, Knight News Challenge, Paul Bradshaw, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sir Tim Berners Lee, Tim Hood
  
• 07.21.08
  The big question now is whether this many-headed monster of info and apps can ever be tamed into something that’s even vaguely house-trained? General, Journalism, MLW | (0)

  For reasons that won't be too hard to fathom for both our regular readers, this was all very interesting... http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/levellers_fishbones_and_sir_tim_berners_lee/ Not least because these days we can join some of the dots therein... that I was lucky enough to speak at www.2gether08.com which was a kind of warm-up garden party for the full-on launch of the 4iP funding initiative later this autumn... And we've also been round the block with Sir Tim and his partner Martin Moore once or twice before on their success at this year's Knight News Challenge... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=73 And again... http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=89 And, of course, we've also crossed paths with the good folks at NESTA. Which ...

  Tagged: 4iP, Bob Wyman, Google, Jeff Jarvis, Knight News Challenge, Martin Moore, MyLocalWriter, NESTA, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 07.01.08
  A random three-digit code from the SEO industry or a nice, shiny label from Sir Tim Berners-Lee? No contest, no contest… Advertising, General, MFW | (1)

  The temptation is to hold Uncle Roy's hand and go round the block again with this one... http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/07/memo_to_journalists_dont_be_de.html But, there is an element to me which thinks we need to move the debate on; that much of that is a given - particularly in this current economic climate. It's not so much an 'if' as a when - and the lad suggesting that the 'when' is now down to the next 18 months has clearly not been wined and dined by the Newspaper Society of late. But, for me, Roy's spot on; journalism as we currently know it is heading for the mincer; ...

  Tagged: Jeff Jarvis, Martin Moore, Roy Greenslade, SEO, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 06.23.08
  Why events at CERN next month ring a bell in this neck of the woods; why we all have to go back to the basic building blocks of life and start all over again… General, Journalism | (3)

  We've already touched on the potential impact of CERN on our world twice before. Once, of course, with regard to what CERN 'old boy' Sir Tim Berners-Lee is up to with his wad of Knight News Challenge cash - http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=73 - and once with regard to the mother of all operating systems that could soon be downloading a box-load of DVDs to a lap-top near you. In an instant. Meet 'The Grid' - http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=39 Anyway, CERN was again the suject of a double-page spread in the Mail On Sunday's 'Live' supplement last week - basically signalling the fact that the Large Hadron Collider ...

  Tagged: CERN, Clay Shirky, MediaStandardsTrust, Sir Tim Berners Lee
  
• 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
  

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