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links for 2008-04-28

charliebeckett.org » Blog Archive » Can You Trust The Media? by Adrian Monck (Book review) Great book review (tags: media journalism) Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity – Boing Boing Clay Shirky and cognitive…

Going local update

Thought I might post an update on my efforts at establishing a social media group in Kettering, Northants. Having been subscribed to various feeds searching for Kettering based content, which mainly produced details of various car boot sales in the…

Angel

Taken as I sped by on my way to Newcastle. I wasn’t driving, honest, officer. I remember being mesmerised by this on my first (and up ’til now, only) trip to the North East. It’s lost none of its magic…

Flat Earth News

I am currently reading Flat Earth News by Nick Davies, which focuses on journalism and news and how the profession is failing in its duty to protect and disseminate the truth. This isn’t, Davies claims, because of a some moral…

Skills 2.0

There are some interesting points in this PDF about the skills required in the age of web 2.0 from Harold Jarche, including: Attitude: Accepting that we will never know everything, but that others may be able to help, is the…

BBC blogging

Interesting re-post of an article that appeared in the BBC’s in-house magazine Ariel by Rory Cellan-Jones on the issues around the launch of the various blogs written by BBC journalists: It strikes me the initial concerns were twofold – that…

Civicsurf in action

Shane McCracken has blogged at Cllr 2.0 about the experience of Norfolk County Councillor Tony Tomkinson who started blogging at the beginning of this year: The post is a superb example of how using a blog a civic leader can…