Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
SEO tends to have a bad reputation among some journalists. Many tend to see search engine optimisation as the equivalent of writing headlines for robots. But SEO isn’t about turning out bland headlines for Google. It is about helping readers find what they are looking it. It is about matching readers searching for specific news [...]
This compilation of the top 100 tools of 2009 for learning published by social learning consultant Jane Hart could just as well apply to journalism. The darling of the year, Twitter, came top. Other valuable tools in the top 10 are Delicious, YouTube, Google Reader, Google Docs, WordPress, Slideshare, Google Search, Audacity and Firefox. I, [...]
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.