In amidst the general pantomime of my life, consciously or not this blog has ended up taking something of a back-seat over the last two weeks.
In part, there’s a lot going on. Tis the start of a new football season for www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity and www.addiply.com continues to take us all on some interesting, if time-consuming paths.
But [...]
Courtesy of Martin Moore and those fine people at the Media Standards Trust, I forayed up into the big, bad Smoke yesterday afternoon to sit and listen to Alan Rusbridger’s lecture on ‘Why Journalism Matters…’ at the British Academy.
It was, as you might expect, an interesting experience.
Not least for the manner in which it was [...]
For a fair while now, I’ve kind of worked on the basis that this web world of ours will go one of two ways… you’ll either be hyper-national a la The Telegraph, The Guardian, et al…
… or you’ll be hyper-local. A la Linda at www.darwenreporter.com And James at www.towcesternews.co.uk
And there won’t be too much left [...]
I’ve always been a big fan of Mr Holovaty. Big fan.
What he did with ChicagoCrime.org broke the mould; he thought network; not silo. And he thought hyper-local; what’s the news that affects me on a daily basis…? It’s the news that the deli on the corner of OurBlock has just failed its Hygene Inspection.
It was [...]
In many ways, it is none of our business.
In other ways, however, it is very much our business. It is after all ‘our’ business that the NUJ and the Scott Trust are now fighting over as two tribes go to war in the suburbs of Manchester.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43350&c=1
The vote of no confidence in the eventual and spiritual [...]
17 November 2008 – 9:56 pm
I’ve no idea if this will ever see the light of day. It is, however, worth a ponder.
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2008/11/17/guardian-cities-local-sites-for-local-cityfolk/
Worth treating as tiny pebble and throwing into the shrinking pond that is the UK provincial newspaper industry and trying to imagine where the ripples might lead…
Clearly GMG have been happily working that Manchester beat for years. The [...]
Interesting to read the Buzzmachine/Guardian take on the Huffington Post’s one-editor strong invasion of Chicago…
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/19/arianna-invades-chicago/
It’s a move that we’ve already walked once round the block.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=92
And I’m sure we’ll go round the block again with it. But, even now, I’m not sure that if I was given one word to describe it I would plump for [...]