More nonsense about blogs, this time from the former editor of The Times, Simon Jenkins. According to Jenkins, a newspaper column is like writing “a collected essay”, while blogging is like “laying down your pen, going to the pub and telling the guy next to you what you really think”. And if that weren’t bad enough, Jenkins continues digging: It’s the difference between writing and a bar room chat, which

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Daily Mail website has highest proportion of overseas users | Media | guardian.co.uk UK news websites attracting a large international audience (tags: journalism Internet newspapers audience)

Interesting to see that the Vancouver-based participatory news site NowPublic.com is expanding its editorial team. It comes after the site received $10m in venture capital funding last year. It has post several job ads on its blog. NowPublic is looking for: Regional Editors – US, Australia, China, India, South Africa and the UK A sports editor A community relations and content specialist Applications are due by February 1, so please

The BBC’s youth TV channel, BBC Three, is looking to reinvigorate itself with “a brand new look for the channel and a huge step forward in multi-platform”. The channel has struggled to make much of an impact – its viewer share is just 2.6 percent amongst its target 25-34 audience. The aim of the relaunch is to be the first BBC channel to change from a linear service to a

Top news sites for December 2007 : CyberJournalist.net New York Times doing well, with 17m readers online (tags: journalism web_metrics) VentureBeat » And the Crunchies award winners are…. Web 2.0 services to watch. How many do you already use? (tags: community collaboration web_2.0 Internet media)

CBC News Interactive: Canadian media A much needed guide to who owns what in Canada, though it should be redone as a Flash interactive (tags: media ownership journalism CBC)

San Jose Mercury News – Craigslist donates $1.6 million to UC Berkeley to create ‘New Media’ chair Craigslist, one of the sites on the Internet that has changed communication and commerce in the modern world, is donating $1.6 million to the University of California, Berkeley to create the first endowed faculty chair in “new media.” (tags: journalism media Internet Craigslist) Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Scientific American

The blog network CLIQ is shutting down at the end of January. It was trying to bring bloggers together but failed to make much of an impact. The CLIQ directory on its website only lists 95 blogs. Now that Omniture has bought its parent company, CLIQ is e-mailing members, advising them to remove its widget from their blogs. Here is the e-mail it has sent out: CLIQuers, I am writing

The thorny relationship between journalists and social media has once more been propelled into headlines, following the fake Facebook profiles of Bilawal Bhutto. AFP was reported to have barred its journalists from using Facebook or Wikipedia as sources. Or rather, it has told its reporters not to simply to rely on these sites the sole source for a story. Anyone in journalism will tell you that this is just good