A few years ago I did a course in elearning technologies – I’m a journalism lecturer at Cardiff University who teaches digital journalism so it merged my interests in technology and education. I became more interested in what were then Continue reading
Over the coming weeks I’ll be working with some of my students to create tablet edition magazine/supplements alongside their website and newspapers that they do as part of their development on the postgraduate course at Cardiff University. I’m currently reading Continue reading
These are my links for September 24th through October 2nd: TwimeMachine – Read and search your old tweets. – Neat tool for searching old twitter updates 40 Finalists Emerge in $1 Million African News Innovation Challenge | otekbits.com – Forty Continue reading
Here’s a link to a post I wrote for the Economist’s Leanback 2.0 blog.
Talking about different tools and ways to get future content on devices Page turners require third party unless you make own Digital replicas pro cycling looks great “on glass” Multiplatform opportunity Sneers from tech colleagues – not for you. Would Continue reading
Simon Rogers from Guardian talking about creating google fusion table as journalists reporting on events 7-800000 page impressions Started getting arrest data London acquisition (theft) north was violence But then started to get data from ministry of justice and started Continue reading
Martin Belam, user experience lead, the guardian 77 per cent of visits from Facebook to guardian.co.uk were one page Create app as social reading experience Faces of friends = engagement? Opt in alterntaive way of doing it Triggers “frictionless sharing” Continue reading
Liz Heron New York Times Talking about effect of social media gives example of President Obama engaging with people on Google+ hangout http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/obama-google-plus_n_1242816.html Over 400 journalists on twitter 50 have subscribe Facebook Collaborative projects 2011 Arab spring Japan riots Occupy Continue reading
Alex Watson, head of app development dennis publishing, on newwstand App story is a retail environment and newwstand addresses some of the issues of placement. Previously evo’s app sold in amongst everything else. 80000 igizmo downloads before newsstand Dennis 3.5m Continue reading
Liz Heron New York Times Talking about effect of social media gives example of President Obama engaging with people on Google+ hangout http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/obama-google-plus_n_1242816.html Over 400 journalists on twitter 50 have subscribe Facebook Collaborative projects 2011 Arab spring Japan riots Occupy Continue reading