Image via Wikipedia BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is the web’s most heard voice in the UK, according to NowPublic’s MostPublic Index. NowPublic describes the list as “a detailed barometer of whose voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels – Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and the like – transform how media is created and spread.” The list is dominated by BBC journalists, perhaps a reflection of
PDF Image by lynnftw via Flickr A Vancouver blogger, Lisa Bettany has written a thought-provoking piece for The Province on how celebrity sites like Perez Hilton are giving blogs a bad name. As a well-known blogger, Bettany, has a personal stake in the issue. She argues that part of the blame lies with the established media: The mainstream popularization of trashy, trite, and slovenly written blogs like PerezHilton.com is giving bloggers
Georgia Logothetis is better known as Georgia10, contributing editor at liberal blog the Daily Kos. During a panel discussion at the AEJMC annual conference, she described blogs as an example of people empowerment. I caught up with her after the session. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1463623&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95) Update: Bryan Murley has posted a write-up of the panel Georgia was on. It is well worth reading. Print
One of the big debates about blogging is whether the huge number of blogs means people are exposed to a greater variety of news and opinion. Research by the University of Wisconsin presented at the AEJMC annual conference suggests not. In a survey of almost 4,000 reader of political blogs found that most people read that match their political ideology. But these people are also more likely to participate in
More details have emerged on the reasons behind Toronto Life’s decision to scrap its blogs. Publisher Sharon McAuley said the magazine was rethinking its approach as the blogs had failed to attract enough audience to justify their costs and that advertising revenue was lower than expected. Commercial realities of the softening advertising market led to this reassessment, explained McAuley: I think the whole industry is grappling a little bit with
Misinformed quote of the day from Dan Brown, online editor at The London Free Press in Canada: When I graduated from journalism school in 1996, no one knew what a blog was. Heck, we still haven’t decided if blogs are journalism Silly me, I thought we had resolved this debate and the fruitless argument of bloggers vs journalists. Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or
The BBC has upgraded its blogging software to be better able to handle the thousands of comments it receives on its array of official blogs, as BBC News blogs editor Giles Wilson explains: It’s often been frustrating to leave comments (and also frustrating to publish them) because of slow response times. Part of the problem was that we were asking too much of our software. So we thank those of
I was fortunate enough to present my research on how the BBC has integrated blogging in its journalism at the Online Journalism Symposium. The paper, The BBC Goes Blogging: Is ‘Auntie’ Finally Listening?, is available for download as a PDF. Here’s the abstract to provide a taster of the paper: This study examines how the world’s largest news organization, the BBC, has sought to incorporate blogging in its journalism, both
After a morning of discussions about hyper-local at the Online Journalism Symposium, on comes Georgia Popplewell, the managing director of GlobalVoicesOnline.org to talk about the role of this non-profit in the media environment. She talks about Global Voices as the leading newsroom for citizen media content and its relationship with mainstream media, particularly one of its funders, Reuters. But she admits that it has not been as aggressive as it
I’m off to Austin, Texas, for the 2008 International Online Journalism Symposium to present a paper on the BBC’s blogging strategy during the Saturday session. There is a promising line-up and some 200 scholars, professional journalists and media executives have registered for the event. If you can’t make it, students will be live blogging the sessions using CoverLive, and I will also be writing about the sessions. New this year