Category Archives: Handy tools and technology

Reuters.co.uk: Put your questions to David Cameron via Twitter now

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Reuters is hosting an interview with David Cameron via Twitter. This morning (Monday), from 10am, the Conservative party leader David Cameron is talking about the economy and the credit crunch at Thomson Reuters’ Canary Wharf office and his speech will be followed by a question and answer session. Users of Twitter can use the tag #askDC to put questions to Cameron, and Reuters will monitor all the responses. The questions are already coming in. The Reuters Newsmaker can be used to track all proceedings.

CSM and CMS: Christian Science Monitor readies technology for web-only move

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Following its decision to become an online-only outfit from spring next year, the Christian Science Monitor has opted for an open source content management system (CMS) produced by Norway’s eZ Systems.

The eZ Publish CMS will support multimedia content and allow the monitor to publish to multiple platforms if needed, a release from eZ said.

The deal marks the CMS provider’s plans to expand into the US.

Friday procrastination: the blog gender analyser

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It’s Friday, so fancy a bit of distraction now you’ve joined another Ning network, checked your Twitter/Facebook thoroughly and read all of yesterday’s PopBitch and Sam Leith’s witty account of surprise redundancy …? (note: that’s no reference at all to Journalism.co.uk’s own Friday morning activity)

Well… introducing the GenderAnalyzer: a nifty little site that predicts within a second just whether there’s an extra X or Y chromosome influencing that blog. Spookily accurate, according to the very necessary research just conducted.

Without further ado, or procrastination, here’s the link: http://genderanalyzer.com/

Online Information 2008 kicking off now

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Clay Shirky, author of ‘Here Comes Everybody’ is the keynote speaker at Online Information 2008, a conference designed to bring together technology and content. Here’s a preview of Shirky from YouTube (part one. Part Two here):

We’ll keep an eye on the Twitter reports which don’t seem to have started yet – probably on this tag when they do.

World Aids Day in multimedia form

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Support World AIDS Day

World Aids Day, now in its 20th year, seems to be markedly more multimedia this year, although not much video about yet. Anyway, here’s a selection of content:

  • You can customise your blog, website or blog posts with this item. Here’s the embed script: <a href=”http://www.worldaidsday.org” title=”Link to the official World AIDS Day website”><img src=”http://www.worldaidsday.org/images/WAD/ribbon_download.gif” width=”120″ height=”89″ alt=”Support World AIDS Day” /></a>

An interactive map of openly HIV positive bloggers, and citizen media relating to World Aids Day, via GlobalVoices:


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Starbucks advert here (via TakePart.com):

and an advert from the Banyan Tree Project here: