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Shorthand vs Sony Z1 and social media

billcode wrote 1 month ago: Tried my hand at court-reporting today – for the first time. It does seem strange that these d … more →

Tags: Journalism, media convergence, media convergence, media platforms, young journalists,, Online Media, Online News, Betfair, Court Reporting, shorthand, Trilby

Holy crap, investigative journalists needed.

billcode wrote 2 months ago: There is hope, oh lovers of accountability, democracy, and whopping big come-uppances. Just received … more →

Tags: Journalism, media convergence, media platforms, media convergence, media platforms, young journalists,, Online News, bureau-of-investigative-journalism, Hard News, iain overton, investigative journalism, Investigative Journalism Crisis

Microsoft bribing people to use Internet Explorer 8

billcode wrote 6 months ago: Image by RoOobie via Flickr Here’s a funny one. In what could be perceived as a desperate move … more →

Tags: media convergence, Tech stuff and apps, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, Browser Wars, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, IE8

Guardian video editing reaches new level of low quality

billcode wrote 6 months ago: Image by Rakka via Flickr I recently complained that one of the finest newspapers in the English-spe … more →

Tags: Journalism, media convergence, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, Online News, Politics and International Affairs, Tech stuff and apps, comment-is-free, English language

Content is king - and dogs on skateboards are something else

billcode wrote 6 months ago: Image by charmingman via Flickr If  content is king, then this skateboarding dog is his own gonads, … more →

Tags: media convergence, Online Media, Journalism, media convergence, media platforms, young journalists,, Online News, skateboarding dogs, guardian trash, guardian quality, content is king animals

Zattoo crashes during Champions League

billcode wrote 8 months ago: I’ve stressed for eighteen months, to anyone who’ll listen, the glories of Zattoo for th … more →

Tags: media convergence, Tech stuff and apps, Online Media, Zattoo crash, zattoo crashes, Football Streaming, zattoo server, legal streaming football, Television

What will you do?

billcode wrote 8 months ago: What will I do? Well, I suppose I will promise to denounce, for the rest of my living days, any medi … more →

Tags: Politics and International Affairs, media regulation, Journalism, what will you do? sun heroes hypocrite, media organisations making money from war, pro war media, Cynical Media, cynical newspaper, pro-war newspapers

The future of a broadcast media that can't invest in young talent

billcode wrote 8 months ago: I was very interested to read that the Press Assocation is cancelling its multimedia training scheme … more →

Tags: Journalism, young journalists, journalism redundancy, investing in journalism, new talent journalism, job cuts journalism, media future investment, The Future of News, the future of broadcast

The English approach to direct-action and privacy

billcode wrote 9 months ago: Image by montuno via Flickr Personally, I’m a little concerned that this government seems inte … more →

Tags: media convergence, Politics and International Affairs, Tech stuff and apps, media regulation, Journalism, ID Cards, English demonstrations, street-view protests, G20 media hype

ISPs in Australia refuse Government blocking orders

billcode wrote 9 months ago: Image by Getty Images via Daylife Great to see an ISP standing up to the draconian policies being tr … more →

Tags: media convergence, Politics and International Affairs, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, media regulation, Journalism, IiNet

Technology Guardian editor snubs PRs

billcode wrote 9 months ago: A good piece on journalism.co.uk for all journos who have ever wanted to slap a dimwitted PR. Charle … more →

Tags: media convergence, Tech stuff and apps, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, Journalism

Prime Minister pays tribute to Jade Goody; motives questioned3 comments

billcode wrote 9 months ago: Image by Mot via Flickr This morning, two young boys lost their mother, when Jade Goody died in her … more →

Tags: Politics and International Affairs, Gordon Brown Jade Goody, Brown Goody own goal, Brown Goody mistake, Brown Goody insincere, Brown Goody phony

News report on local newspapers closing across UK and effect on local democracy

billcode wrote 9 months ago: A good report from Channel Four News on local papers folding across the UK. Most of the focus is on … more →

Tags: media convergence, Politics and International Affairs, media convergence, media platforms, Journalism, Dying Newspapers, UK local newspapers closing, local news and democracy, civil engagement and newspapers, Dying

First ever Channel Four News in full

billcode wrote 9 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I was browsing Blinkx content the other day, which for those that don’t kn … more →

Tags: media convergence, Online Media, Journalism, first channel four news, trevor mcdonald channel four news, peter sissons channel four news, channel four news debut, 1980s news, broadcast news history

Job cuts hit journalist. Me.3 comments

billcode wrote 10 months ago: We’ve all heard that editorial staff across the board are losing their jobs; just today Bloomb … more →

Tags: media convergence, Online Media, Journalism, journalism redundancy, journalists losing jobs, editorial redundancy, editorial sackings

BJTC Awards 20091 comment

billcode wrote 10 months ago: Happy to say I’ve apparently come second in the British Journalism Training Council’s aw … more →

Tags: media convergence, Journalism, BJTC Awards, student media awards, apostolos gaitanis, Erodea valley pollution, oyster card cracked, oyster card cloned, RFID risks

In defence of Wikipedia1 comment

billcode wrote 10 months ago: Image via Wikipedia For years now I’ve been enraged, or at least a little peeved, at people di … more →

Tags: media convergence, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, defence of wikipedia, Wikipedia accuracy, academic wikipedia, students universities wikipedia, wikipedia trust

Channel 4 catch-up welcomes non-Windows users

billcode wrote 10 months ago: Image by Getty Images via Daylife Hooooray – justice for anyone not using Windows but still ke … more →

Tags: Tech stuff and apps, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, media regulation, channel four catch-up, channel four flash, 4OD Mac, 4OD windows monopoly, Channel 4 flash viewers

Kangaroo scrapped - let's share the iPlayer3 comments

billcode wrote 11 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Ok, so it had been looking unlikely for a while, but the UK’s answer to th … more →

Tags: media convergence, Tech stuff and apps, media convergence, media platforms, Online Media, media regulation, kangaroo, share iplayer with channel four, iplayer competition commission, iplayer exclusive to BBC


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