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The commercial is part of a repackaging drive to boost circulation in the magazine's birthplace, the UK, and to emulate the popularity that it enjoys in the US. The campaign calls upon the "intellectually curious" rather than any specified demographic to "let your mind wander".
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July 4, 2009 by sarahhartleylinks for 2009-07-03
July 3, 2009 by sarahhartley-
The commercial is part of a repackaging drive to boost circulation in the magazine's birthplace, the UK, and to emulate the popularity that it enjoys in the US. The campaign calls upon the "intellectually curious" rather than any specified demographic to "let your mind wander".
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There are three options – unfollow people, or people just get sensible and ignore these stupid requirements. The third option is that Twitter actually gets their act into gear and produces a software update that allows people to block words, re-tweets or individuals from appearing in their timelines.
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July 2, 2009 by sarahhartley-
Perfectly normal people publishing effectively using unfashionable technologies, which percolate out into wider society. More examples: Sheffield Forum, parwich.org, Digbeth is Good, Pits ‘n Pots.
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Next week, the Huffington Post will start "liveblogging the lobbyists", she said. They will be calling on their network of 13,000 citizen journalists and 20 million users to help them crowdsource information on lobbyists in the US.
She said that the greatest thing that internet users can bring to the world is our obsessiveness.
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The work of the SWRadio crew was also a testament to the spirit of wanting to change things for the better, whatever the obstacles. Working at a large news organisation it is all too easy to get wrapped up in the day-to-day intricacies of 'producing new media', and to forget about the real and profound impact that the content we produce can have on the ground in places where there is no free media.
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July 1, 2009 by sarahhartley-
Bloggers have grown in importance to corporations, measured by the increased outreach by businesses and their PR people. And the vast majority of these bloggers want companies and their PR people to reach out to them. While awareness of social media releases avaries from market to market, among those who know what they are, they’re perceived favorably.
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Audiences are being made to feel confused and excluded by reports they do not understand, according to the paper 'Public Trust In The News' by academics from Manchester and Leeds Universities, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Where’s the new stuff?
June 28, 2009 by sarahhartleyIs there a lack of new online communication services coming on stream – or perhaps it’s all iPhone app related advances instead?
Following on from a conversation earlier this week I’ve been doing a bit of an audit of services I subscribe to and have come to the conclusion that there’s not much must-have new stuff that’s surfaced in the past few months.
Or maybe it’s that I’m not finding them. If s o what am I missing?
At one stage, about 18 months ago, there seemed to be something new coming on stream very day. OK, some didn’t even stick long enough to make it onto my bookmarks – anyone still doing Plurk or Brightkite? – but others were persevered with.
Updating the contacts page on this blog, I’ve now removed some listings of places I no longer find essential – but there’s very few additions.
What came in;
* Skype: Has become properly useful with my mobile and remote working patterns.
* Qik : Reliable and invaluable mo-blogging tool.
* AudioBoo: Only just added but expected to stick.
* FriendFeed: Still not an everyday, but starting to see its value, particularly as a live-blogging tool.
What went out;
* The second Twitter account I had been using for live-blogging in Manchester. All Twitter activity will now be consolidated @foodiesarah.
* Bambuser. Was in regular use until the service failed at a particularly important live-blogging moment.
* Utterli: Has been utterly pointless since the UK phone number service ceased.
* Seesmic: Wasn’t a regular haunt although, of all the above, this is one I’m keeping an open mind to have a return to.
Any recommendations or suggestions of new stuff gratefully consumed.
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June 25, 2009 by sarahhartley-
Most people could only dream of seeing the modern seven wonders of the world in their lifetime. But one Manchester businesswoman has set herself the challenge to race around the globe to visit them all in seven days.
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Where is everybody? Anecdotally and experimentally, they've all gone to Facebook, and especially Twitter. At least with Twitter, one can search for comments via backtweets.com – though it's still quite rare for people to make a comment on a piece in a tweet; more usually it's a "retweet", echoing the headline.
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June 22, 2009 by sarahhartley-
The live blog is print’s equivalent of live TV; it is the way to cover a story such as this: process journalism over product journalism.
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June 20, 2009 by sarahhartley-
Newspaper Web sites do well, with 41 percent of respondents describing them as important sources of news. Facebook scored 10 percent; Twitter scored 4 percent.
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June 18, 2009 by sarahhartley-
Interestingly, the itemised bill for Jacqui Smith’s husbands late night viewing has been censored. (The Times have been trying to find it). So if it wasn’t for good old fashioned journalism, that little indiscretion would never have been caught. Which is precisely the point of why all these black boxes on forms are there. To protecting the MP’s embarrassment, not for their physical security.
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Your blog is a journey. And you have already begun that journey. That’s a useful start, isn’t it?
If you want to turn a corner from just reporter or commentator to expert, then you have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then demonstrate it over and over again.
