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 [...]
22 August 2008 – 12:31 am
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; [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]