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UK-US dictionary needed for the blogosphere!
Journalism.co.uk is starting to think a US dictionary could be useful for this international blog lark.
Completely thrown off track with a US use of ‘chuffed’ in its negative sense…
And of course, there’s the old ‘pissed’ one: you could be drunk in the UK and annoyed in the US. What other confusions have people picked up on the US/UK blog rounds?
Britannica.com: Blogosphere, R.I.P?
Britannica dropped us an email to let us know about this post: Nicholas Carr, who sits on their board of advisors, has posted this from his own blog: blogging, has entered its midlife crisis, he writes. No one killed the blogosphere, he says, ‘its death was natural, and foretold’. Vidaus apdailos ir būtų remonto darbai Vilniuje www.bustovizija.net
Shiny Media reports October blog traffic boost
Blog publisher Shiny Media recorded a 7 per cent increase in unique users to its network of sites in October, according to Google Analytics figures posted to the company’s blog.
Unique users to the blogs grew to 3.2 million for the month with 6.1 million page impressions.
Figures for individual titles for October included:
Crafty Crafty – a 40 per cent rise in unique users to 89,000
CorrieBlog – a 37 per cent rise in unique users to 79,000
Xboxer.tv – rise of 34 per cent
ShinyStyle.tv – rise of 28 per cent
Kiss and Make Up – rise of 24 per cent
In the blog post, Shiny co-founder Chris Price said the figures might be prompted in part by the economic downturn, as more people turn to lifestyle and home-based interest sites.
Twitter-quette: how do you want J.co.uk to cover events?
There’s been quite a lot of discussion about how to behave on Twitter lately. Last week @charlesarthur said it was all about the links and got a few conflicting comments below his blog post about how to be interesting (or not) on Twitter.
Earlier in the week, one of @journalismnews followers said they didn’t like too many Tweets from an event, without prior warning.
So, over to you our lovely followers … Do you think we should have a specific events Twitter name for all events, or specific ones for each event we attend, which we’ll publicise the name for from @journalismnews?
Tweet back, or drop us a comment below.
What journalists like… interns, freebies and exclusive areas
Forget all that stuff about journalists being miserable old so and sos, this blog reckons we actually like stuff.
We picked this up today from Twitter: everything journalists like, along the lines of the very, very successful blog Stuff White People Like (Christian Lander has a book out now).
Apparently we like The Wire, interns, Twittering, press areas, awards and swag…
Scarily accurate but we need a slightly UK orientated one too: strong tea, cluttered desks, having shorthand, the PR machine (otherwise we wouldn’t have any stories and it would reduce things to moan about).
So another one to the list, we like this blog. Add your likes (especially the secret ones) here…
Which are the best of the online journalism blogs out there?
We have a Best of the Blogs page, in which we feature the best of the online journalism blogs posts.
Although we hand-select items for the Editor’s Pick each day, this selection is automated from a list of chosen blogs, and specific feeds.
It can be viewed as an RSS feed, and it also goes into our newsletter which is sent to nearly 16,000 journalists every day.
We’ve been adding and updating it recently but are there other blogs out there you think should feature? Or would you like your blog to be in it?
It would be nice to get more of an international mix over a range of subjects, covering everything from the techie to the social side of online journalism.
If so, leave your suggestions below or email judith at journalism.co.uk.
BBC Radio 4 Feedback looks at the BBC News blogs (audio)
When they started, the BBC didn’t know why or what it was for: Nick Robinson tried out one for the General Election in 2001.
Now Robert Peston is getting a half million hits per day.
Here Louise Adamson from Radio 4’s Feedback programme looks at the role of the BBC’s News blogs.
The BBC journalists interviewed stress that the BBC voice has to be considered, and that blogs still go through careful checks.
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Reflections on Blog08 and ideas for next year’s event
So the brief day that was Blog08 is over and our blogging reporter, Anne Helmond, is back home. She rounds up over on her own blog, with a few after-thoughts. She also rounds up a presentation by a blogging politician, Boris van der Ham, who has been voted the most web savvy of Dutch House of Representatives members.
She says:
“Overall, it was a good first blog conference and I hope that next time organizers Ernst-Jan Pfauth and Edial Dekker will keep in mind that not every great blogger is a great speaker and that blogging can be approached from even more different angles and perspectives.”
Thanks to Anne for all the insightful and speedy feedback.
Meanwhile, over at the Online Journalism Blog, Paul Bradshaw – who participated in a panel – does a little piece to camera reflecting on the day’s events:
The event was ‘eclectic and random’, he says – just like blogging, but can we please get past the ‘old chestnut’ question of ‘journalism v blogging’? he asks. You can also watch some other video clips here.
Blog08: The never-ending journalism vs blogging debate continues…
Bloggers Hugh McLeod, Loren Feldman, Pete Cashmore and Elisabeth Winkler get up on stage to answer questions from the floor and the live backchannel at Twitter.
Rick Slagter asks the first question: ‘is blogging is the rescue of slow journalism?’
Loren Feldman is very explicit when comparing bloggers to journalists: “Bloggers aren’t journalists. You’re just a bunch of guys sitting in your livingroom, writing things.”
Pete Cashmore comes to the defence of bloggers and jokes that “sometimes we dress up and we wear pyjamas.” He describes the current media landscape as an eco-system where bloggers and journalists complement each other.
Winkler sees the overlap between journalism and blogging in the connections between opinion and fact. However, a fact needs a context because everyone has an agenda, and the major media aren’t very clear about their agenda. She sees blogging as a little more transparent.
Cashmore compares the discussion to the endless discussion that is still going on surrounding the term ‘web 2.0’. We spend a lot of time and posts on trying to define it, which leads to endless discussion, he says. The whole journalism versus bloggers debate depends on how you define journalism.
Paul Bradshaw from the Online Journalism Blog enters the debate with his opinion that ‘is blogging journalism?’ is an old question and that we need more challenging ones.
The best part of the discussion seems to be happening on Twitter, where Wilbert Baan (Interaction Designer of the Volkskrant newspaper website) replies to Paul Bradshaw’s statement with this insightful comment:
And me? I think the distinction between the medium and practice of blogging is an important one, especially in relation to journalism.