We’ve seen it picked up by newspapers elsewhere in Europe, but this week Germany’s Bild announced it will improve its connections with bloggers by introducing Twingly to its sport, entertainment, German premier league football and English-language site, Bild.com.
The Blogstream widget links back to bloggers who are linking to Bild content in an attempt to share some link love and let the paper see where its content is being picked up and talked about.
Advice from The Philadelphia Inquirer on setting up and running a breaking news blog.
Particularly interesting is how the blog deals with new news e.g. running AP alerts straight on occasion, which says the paper helped journalists to ‘get over the mental hurdle that “we didn’t have enough for a story”‘.
Dan Lyons, the blogger behind the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ blog, has allegedly been banned from appearing on CNBC after calling out one of the channel’s reporters for his coverage of Steve Jobs’ health problems.
Dave Winer: “One of the common complaints from people in journalism about bloggers is that we just comment on reports in the news, we don’t do original reporting. It’s so often repeated it’s become a cliche, but it’s simply not true and I can prove it.” Full story…
Tips on how to find relevant blogs linked to your patch or community.
A list of 10 things bloggers could learn from journalism – including developing a style and tone, and keeping your posts newsworthy/relevant to readers.
Paul Bradshaw’s theory on why people stop blogging: ‘They do not become part of an online community’.
“There is a moment at which the momentum of starting a blog fades, and a new momentum – the regular input of community – is needed to continue,” he says.
MediaWeek reported on Friday that Condé Nast is closing its network of blogs Product Fiend, Elastic Waist and Daily Bedpost, in one of its moves to reduce online expenditure, in the face of slowing advertising revenue growth.
Ever find you comment on a blog and forget to go back and check how the conversation is progressing? The Evolving Newsroom has two suggestions to help keep track of blog debates.
Roger Alton, editor of the Independent since July this year, has posted his first blog entry on the paper’s site (hat tip to Adrian Monck). In it he asks readers what they want the paper to report on – whether it’s ‘Strictly or the Large Hadron Collider or Britain on the Booze, or Damian Green or all of the above’.
In his post, Alton adds that the paper’s multi-platform operations should be closely related before moving on to the BBC and Sunday night programming:
“What about Sunday night’s telly? Personally, I can’t stand the BBC – I think it is bloated, bureaucratic, ripe for partial privatisation, and astonishingly inept at handling its own problems. But crikey, it does show fantastic TV.”
We’ll be keeping an eye on Alton’s blogging progress, but in the mean time, what do you want him to write about? Cover prices, front page designs or even *Saturday* night telly…