Ode to a hack

A friend from the Magazine Diploma course, Vern Pitt, and I put this video together. We noticed a recurring theme of key words in our online lectures. We thought about making it into a drinking game, but decided to put our energy into getting to grips with some techy stuff instead. Plus Amy Davies has [...]

Experiments of a novice update 27-11-08 – Not Diggin it

Ok people – Digg don’t work. For me, at least. A paltry number of people – seven – read my blog post through Digg, one of whom might have been myself. Another might have been my dad. (Thanks Pa)

So why didn’t it work?

I’m not sure. But I have been trying to find out.

Problogger, in [...]

Twitterific: Twitter with benefits

At the risk of sounding like a press release for Twitter, I’ve been learning this week about the full range of services Twitter can offer:

Twitter search function – Found at the bottom of your Twitter home page, this search bar allows you to search for [...]

Burmese Blogger Jailed for 20 Years

News that a Burmese blogger has been jailed for 20 years for posting a cartoon of the military leader, Than Shwe, really brings home how Web 2.0 is upsetting the balance of power in societies today.

Experiments of a Novice Update 7-11-08

Since my blog link was twittered by a certain Mr Tinworth I have had 79 hits (in the past two hours). When you think the figure we were looking at yesterday was 16, this seems amazing.
Plus I’ve had some really helpful comments from Simon Robinson and Rishi Lakhaniwhich I will definitely try and adopt. I’m [...]

Cut the opinion: the experiments of a novice

A lecture from the Head of Blogging (yes I know but these are the job titles of the future) at RBI, Adam Tinworth, has taught me something which is easy to forget when suffering from blog-block.
Blogging is not and should not focus on shoving your opinion down someone’s throat. Unless you want to be a [...]

Digital stories – grass roots history?

Last week’s lecture really hit a nerve with me. Daniel Meadows, a leading voice in multimedia storytelling, talked to us about digital stories. He describes them as “short, personal, multimedia tales told from the heart”. Here’s one of Meadows’ stories which really drives home their place in recording the life of people.
In practice, they use [...]

The dawn of a new age

Looking through the newspaper websites today, the day after Barack Obama was elected the first black President of the United States, I feel included in a part of history.
I can watch Obama’s victory speech, view the reaction of crowds right across America, see a breakdown of results on a state by state level, and read [...]