Hats off to the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism which is attempting to audit all the hyperlocal projects ongoing in the United States. The project is led by Professor Jeff Jarvis, best known on this side…
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Taking The Micheal. (Did You Mean ‘Michael’?)
Loads of stats around on Michael Jackson’s death last week and the subsequent surge in web traffic. For example, Twitter’s audience reached an all-time, high claiming 0.24% of all US internet visits on Friday (that’s one in every 417). Similar stellar…
G20, YouTube And The Three Phases of Amateur Video
On a day the police have come under fire from Parliament for their handling of G20 summit protests, are we witnessing another step-change in citizen reporting? According to a post on YouTube’s own blog, uploads from mobile phones to the video sharing site jumped 1,700% in…
Old Media Doesn’t Die: Daily Telegraph, Guardian And MPs’ Expenses
A quick plug for my new column for those nice people at Journalism.co.uk. First up, an assessment of the old and new media coverage of MPs’ expenses a week on from the heavily redacted Parliamentary disclosure. In essence I argue…
Guido, Jacko And Miliband’s Phantom Tweet
Political blogger Guido Fawkes is having much fun at the expense of big media. Again. This time it’s the supposed Twitter tribute from foreign secretary David Miliband in the wake of Michael Jackson’s death. According to copy sourced from the…
Five Ways News Organisations Should Use Twitter
Rule nine of the Twitter playbook says don’t talk numbers. The only person who cares how many followers you’ve got is you and this craven attention-seeking is likely to backfire – followers soon stop following. Sod rule nine. For now, at least. I want…
Fraser Nelson, Political Blogger
Fraser Nelson, for the uninitiated, is the political editor of the Spectator and is one part of the very readable collective blog Coffee House. Despite the gifts of the other contributors, he’s the undoubted star of the show. He instinctively gets…
How Twitter Left Google News Trailing Over Iran
So this is what we think we know – after the Sichuan earthquake and the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the aftermath of the Iranian elections marks the latest coming of age for Twitter. As a vechicle breaking news and real-time updates the microblogging site has…
Million Up For Apple 3G iPhone And Dell’s $3m Twitter Windfall
This is my kind of blog. Digital Stats does exactly what it says on the tin – it is a collection of “interesting and surprising statistics about digital media and devices”. It doesn’t try and do anything else. Just that.…
Is The Investigations Fund A Solution To The Crisis in Journalism?
Following in the footsteps of ProPublica and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Europe has its first foundation dedicated to “support independent journalism”. The Investigtions Fund boasts an impressive cast list including investigative journalist Nick Davies, freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke and…
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