Have you seen a crazy notice on the toilet door of your university asking you not to engage in what The Sun sometimes terms flying solo? Would you file an official request for information if you did?
Some great points from Steve Buttry on why journalists need to take over their own professional training rather than wait for their employers to do it for them.
The benefits of teaching yourself go beyond the skill you just learned: You underscore your own responsibility for your [...]
Xerte – Open Source E-Learning Developer Tools New version has Mac, be interesting to see what this is like in this version (tags: elearning opensource learning_objects)
“Community management in the newsroom” – The Guardian’s Laura Oliver at Hack/Hackers London The Guardian's Laura Oliver (tags: journalism community management)
ToolDatabase < Dmi Great collection of tools for data journalism (tags: tools data visualization research journalism media analysis datajournalism)
Report sheds light on digital consumption of glossy mags – Brand Republic News some interesting figures here including
"readers saw print and digital versions as distinct entities offering different experiences, as 82% of the total sample believed websites would not entirely replace print." (tags: magazines socialmedia)
Understanding data to be a better reporter | Medill | Washington SQLite tutorial for journalists (tags: data datajournalism)
HMRC spending by supplier Data scraping from published spending by UK govt departments (tags: data datajournalism scraperwiki) Cause List Track what's going on in the courts of England & Wales, right now.Last updated 4 minutes ago. Refreshes automatically. (tags: data courts via:paulb)
Been reading up about social media fun and games today with celebs being the key focus after Lady Gaga made the top of the Forbes 100 celeb list
Gaga is there not just because of the $90 million she earned with a monster tour, but also because of her 32 million Facebook fans and 10 [...]
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