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How to stop your audience from feeling used

The virtuous circle from Digitaldickinson on Vimeo.
I spent two days last month discussing the future of journalism at the University of Central Lancashire with a group with representatives of all corners of the UK media scene. Fascinating two days, not least for the wealth of disagreement (no bad thing).
It’ll come as zero surprise to know [...]

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Wordpress for iPhone hits the Store

The theory is that the new iPhone 3G is not a converged mobile at all, but the world’s first truly personal computer.
And here’s some evidence that this is true – my first post using the brand new Wordpress App.
It took under 30 seconds to set up. And if you can see this, it works.

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BBC News: old dog to learn new tricks

Something momentous will happen next week – the BBC will revamp its News site. Alright, so it’s hardly in the same league as the collapse of capitalism, but look at it this way – BBC News is my home page, the thing that greets me every time I launch my browser.
It’s so much a part [...]

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Media 2.0 = Snowballs

 

According to Yahoo’s VP of Video and Media Applications, the revolution has already happened. Ian Rodgers reckons the only option left for the music and video business is in ‘leveraging the scale of the web’.

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CoverItLive: blogging goes real time

God knows how many people will use it, but huge credit to the Einsteins behind CoverItLive.

Sign up for an account (which is free, by the way), and you have instant access to a turbo-charged blogging tool that blurs the line between blog and instant messaging.
All you do is add a line of code to your [...]

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Dilbert creator predicts the end of news print

…And it all rests on the evolution of the iPhone, apparently.
I predict that the end of printed newspapers will happen in the time it takes for most people to upgrade their cell phones two more times. The iPhone, and its inevitable copycats, (let’s call them iClones) are newspaper killers.

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The definition of Web 3.0

So here it is… the defining statement that says goodbye to Web 2.0, and hello to a new generation. Or not. Either, Jason Calacanis (all-round web entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Weblogs Inc.), has had a stab at giving a dictionary definition of Web 3.0:
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and [...]

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A complete history of the first time things happened

Oh, now I’m a happy boy. This is the sort of stuff you could lose years of your life to… The First Time News Was Fit To Print is a compilation of the first mentions in the New York Times of famous people, places, things and terms.Sound dull? You need to get out more…mental_floss magazine [...]

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Wonderful dig at Digg

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Blogs become ‘media properties’

A new chart shows the power of blog-powered technology sites against traditional online media, with several home-spun players now giving the BBC and CNet a run for their dollar.If you’re a habitual consumer of technology sites, none of the findings will come as a shock. To my eyes, the real interest comes in the comment [...]

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