Saturday, March 20th, 2010
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Kevin: Media think tank Polis at the London School of Economics held a panel about social media and journalism in conjunction with the Press Complaints Commission (a self-regulatory industry body here in the UK that has come in for criticism for its deal objectively with complaints). The panel was Chaired by Charlie Beckett, Director of Polis, the discussion began with case studies from Stephen Abell, Director of the PCC and included statements from Janine Gibson (editor, Guardian Online), Anna Doble (litigation specialist, Wiggin LLP), Torin Douglas (Media Correspondent, BBC),
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
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Kevin: From O'Reilly Radar: "According to Eric A. Meyer, an author and HTML/CSS expert, the answer is a definitive yes. In the following Q&A, Meyer explains why HTML5, CSS and JavaScript are the "classic three" for developers and designers. He also pushes past the HTML5 vs. Flash bombast to offer a rational and much-needed comparison of the toolsets."
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Kevin: I'm not sure I agree with the dissenting opinion of the Judge Frances Rothschild who said the appellate
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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Last year I wrote a report for the Carnegie UK Trust’s Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland. That report, Making the Connection: The use of social technologies in civil society, has finally been published and you can get it from the Inquiry website (direct link to the PDF). The contents are:
Executive summary
What is social technology?
What are the main types of social technology?
What is civil society?
Key characteristics of social media
Part one: Introduction
Background to the report
Building civil society 2.0
A changed world
Challenges and risks posed by social
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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As part of my work on the report Making the Connection: The use of social technologies in civil society, written for the Carnegie UK Trust’s Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, I put together a couple of case studies. The final report carries shorter versions, so I though it would be useful for me to post the full versions to provide extra detail and context. Here is the second, focused on YouthNet.
- YouthNet focuses on understanding which social technologies their target audience use and then adopts those tools.
- Their use of social media is
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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As part of my work on the report Making the Connection: The use of social technologies in civil society, written for the Carnegie UK Trust’s Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, I put together a couple of case studies. The final report carries shorter versions, so I though it would be useful for me to post the full versions to provide extra detail and context. So here is the first, focused on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation uses its website to share information with its audience, hoping to reach senior leaders under
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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Kevin: Journalism.co.uk has an excerpt from the inaugural lecture by City University (London) head of journalism George Brock. I'm sorry to have missed it. He takes issue with a 2008 speech by Paul Dacre, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday. Brock calls some Dacre's arguments "grotesque and self-deluding arrogance". I couldn't agree more. Brock goes on to say, "There are those in society entitled to defend moral standards, but encouraging journalists to see themselves as moral referees has
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
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Kevin: A comparison between sales data for Motorola's Droid, Apple's iPhone and Google's Nexus One. There is some very good, nuanced analysis of the numbers, and this comment from the Android Guys: "Looking at the super phone that is the Nexus One over its first 90 days, one would get the sense that it's a monumental failure."
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Kevin: The post covers a panel on crowdsourced or collaborative journalism from the online-only Seattle P-I
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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Matt Thompson has been doing deep thinking about the future of journalism, since he and Robin Sloan created the EPIC flash animations while at Poynter at the urging of Howard Finberg. Matt has been thinking about context and ways that journalism can transcend shortcomings that were a product of linear platforms. He explored it during a Reynolds Fellowship at the University of Missouri and at the blog Newsless. Yesterday, he explored the topic at a panel with Jay Rosen and Tristan Harris of Apture. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting all three panelists in the past. This discussion did something
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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Kevin: Interesting numbers from the iPad pre-orders. For the first day, Apple was processing 25,000 orders an hour. The dropped to 1,000 per hour over the weekend. More details, 70% of the orders were the WiFi model.
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Kevin: Great summary from Liz Gannes at GigaOm about comments from Clay Shirky about 'public sharing'.
* “How much value can we get out of civic sharing?”
That last point was Shirky’s main thrust — how can people
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
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Kevin: Ernst Poulsen writes about a Danish experiment with Google Wave, Bølgen. He says, "Despite the fact that "Bølgen" is just an experiment with a small target group, it may provide inspiration for niche-publications, where readers are often just as knowledgeable and may be just as willing to participate and showcase their own knowledge."
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Kevin: A great post on the MediaShift blog about how to 'live-stream' your newsroom. It's a very good, practical list of suggestions on how
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