In this guest post, my friend Jason Tanz, senior editor at Wired, explains the reasons behind the magazine’s experiment in journalistic “radical transparency” around an article on Charlie Kaufman: Every journalist has probably had that feeling – you’ve got a pile of material, a recorder full of interviews, you’ve been studying and speaking with subjects who have been gracious enough to let you into their lives – and now you

Robert Scoble streamed his keynote at last week’s Online News Association annual conference in DC live via a mobile phone. It was a powerful demonstration of the new tools of communication he talked about. [kyte.tv appKey=MarbachViewerEmbedded&uri=channels/6118/220081&embedId

If any journalists had doubts about the benefits of blogging, hopefully this guest post by my friend Scott Elliott will put them to rest. Scott was an education reporter with the Dayton Daily News and has just taken on a new role as columnist for the paper. He started a blog about his beat, Get on the Bus, shortly after a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan three

Word cloud of Reportr.net created with the online tool Wordle. Inspired by 10,000 Words post on “What is the multimedia blogosphere talking about?&#

Regular readers will have noticed the lack of recent updates. That’s because I have just got married. I’ll be taking a break from blogging for the next couple of weeks during the honeymoon, but will be back refreshed by the end of the month

Buried in the BBC Trust’s review of bbc.co.uk is some revealing information about how the corporation has adopted blogging. In a section on accountability, the Trust explores how the BBC’s commitment to “to forge a new relationship with licence fee payers” online and suggests that “recent developments, such as the development of BBC editors and management blogs, mean that the BBC may be able to fulfil this commitment much better

Joseph Carrabis, founder and chief research officer of NextStage Evolution, talks about how there are two kinds of bloggers, the Holmes and the Watson. (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the ICA annual conferencein Montreal)

Katherine Sharpe, Seed magazine’s manager of ScienceBlogs provided an insight into how the blog aggregator works at the Knight science journalism conference. ScienceBlogs kicked off in January 2006 with 12 blogs and now, two years later, brings together 70. Katherine explained how Seed quickly realised that bringing the blogs together into a science metablog created something bigger than the sum of its parts and the traffic reflected this. The posts

I caught up with Clive Thompson after his talk at the Knight Science Journalism symposium and asked him about his love of blogging. His blog is Collision Detection. (Shot on a Nokia N95)

Clive Thompson has just bombarded a room full of science journalists about the joys of blogging and Twittering. Thompson was a Knight Science fellow, during which he became his blog, Collision Detection. Today, at a symposium to mark the 25th anniversary of the fellowships at MIT, he evangelised about the benefits of blogging. For Clive, he blogs to improve the way he thinks. The blog was what Cory Doctorow describes