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John Naughton links to an event taking place in Cambridge on 19th May: Nick Davies, a well-known and award-winning investigative journalist, has recently published Flat Earth News, a controversial and highly-critical analysis of the British news media in which he…
Having an iPhone has really liberated me in term of the way that I use Flickr. This would be true of any phone with decent internet connectivity, and indeed there are plenty of handsets out there with better camera functionality…
As part of our work social reporting the Digital Inclusion conference last week, David and I agreed to write some posts building on what we had done on DC10plus’ own blog, which is hosted at WordPress.com . The first of…
My little Asus Eee PC James Cridland on getting Ubuntu working efficiently on an Eeepc (tags: eeepc asus james+cridland) Is New Media Killing Journalism? Do you care? Charlie Beckett on a recent discussion on the role of citizen journalists. (tags:…
Things have been relatively quiet here on DavePress, but don’t worry, I have been busy. I’ve been working on a few projects – as well as the social reporting stuff with David – which I will hopefully be able to…
Reflections on event socialreporting « Socialreporter David’s writeup of our experience social reporting at the Digital Inclusion Conference (tags: dc10plus davidwilcox socialreporter)
Citizen Space This is a wordpress blog by those guys at Dlib on edemocracy stuff they have spotted. Subscribed. (tags: delib edemocracy citizenspace wordpress)
I had the pleasure of talking to Patrick Butler of the Guardian the other day on the subject of public sector types blogging. He did a jolly good job of editing down everything I said into one paragraph in his…
End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers Interesting stats on Twitter take-up – growing but still pretty limited (tags: microblogging statistics twitter techcrunch traffic) Home | Shine UnConference Think I will only be able to make the Saturday 🙁…
Here David and I discuss our day’s social reporting:
Today was most enjoyably spent at the Digital Inclusion conference, with David Wilcox, doing some video and other social web stuff on behalf of DC10plus. We decided that, rather than drown DC10plus’s own blog with everything we produced, we would…
I’m chucking up some nice bits of video over on the DC10plus social reporting site. I especially like this one, featuring David Wilcox and some impairment-simulation gear: [youtube:]
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…
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…
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…
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…
What sort of things do you look at to measure the ‘success’ of your blog, whether as a whole site or on a post by post process. I guess it might depend on why you are blogging as to what…