Last week I listened to a webinar interview with Howard Rheingold by the Pillar Summit’s Richard Millington . If I was working for a newspaper I’d probably call Howard a web guru – or an elder statesman of the Internet, or hang my reverence on some other cliché. But, after listening to him speak for [...]
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Building civil spaces online: Howard Rheingold
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on May 4, 2012
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/building-civil-spaces-online-howard-rheingold/
Advertising on council websites – a few thoughts from the dark side
There was a really interesting conversation this morning on Twitter about councils advertising on their websites – which was started by Adrian Short (see his blog post, here, about his complaint to Nottigham City Council). I’ve tried to put the pertinent tweets together into a Storify, so that people can follow the debate. There’s probably [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on May 10, 2011
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/advertising-on-council-websites-a-few-thoughts-from-the-dark-side/
Judith Townend: Media law for the little guy
Judith was a journalist at journalism.co.uk. Her interest in media law has taken her to city university where she is now engaged in a PhD about just that. Judith has been carrying out research about how small news orgs and bloggers deal with legal issues – ‘Keeping It Legal Without the Night Lawyer’. She says [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on December 1, 2010
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/judith-townend-media-law-for-the-little-guy/
If anyone else talks about paywalls I’m going to punch them
No industry can be as self important as the newspaper business. OK, maybe TV. And, I suppose, if politics is a business (which it all to frequently appears to be) then that deserves a mention, too. But journalism – a trade designed to make a mountain out of a molehill – has a habit of [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on January 29, 2010
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/if-anyone-else-talks-about-paywalls-im-going-to-punch-them/
How to make news playable
As part of my online journalism studies I have to come up with an ‘experimental portfolio’. This, according to Paul Bradshaw, our course leader, is to explore around the fringes of online journalism knowledge. As a former sub editor, I’ve never been comfortable with uncertainty. I like things to have been written down many, many [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on December 11, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/how-to-make-news-playable/
Will disco dads save the local newspaper business?
Roger Green is one of the most important men in local online journalism in Britain. As the boss of Newsquest‘s digital division, he’s the head honcho for more than 150 newspaper websites up and down the country. Remarkably, however, Roger isn’t too enamoured with all the fuss about clever-clever technologies and is more than a [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on December 10, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/will-disco-dads-save-the-local-newspaper-business/
A list: WordPress alternatives for news
This morning we’ve been learning a lot about CMS. Paul Bradshaw, with the help of a few friends, came up with a list of alternatives to WordPress that might be of interest to people thinking of running a news-based site. Quickly, then, here’s the list:- Drupal, with Open Publish Epression engine Django Ellington CMS Thanks [...]
Posted by Andrew Brightwell on October 15, 2009
http://andrewbrightwell.com/blog/online-journalism/alternative-list-wordpress-cms-news-specific/