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‘Free My Internet’: Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime 9 Jun 2013 | 09:11 am
Via RT News: ‘Free My Internet’: Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime. Excerpt: In Singapore, up to 2,000 activists led by local bloggers staged a rally against recently introd...
Breaking the rules of online publishing 7 Jun 2013 | 11:51 pm
Via J-source.ca: Live blog of MagNet2013 Conference: Breaking The Rules Of Online Publishing—Tyee Style. Excerpt: Let a West Coast media rebel teach you the dos and don’ts for online editing and prese...
Composition 101: A. Lincoln, Instructor 23 Feb 2013 | 12:44 am
Via The Columbia Journalism Review: Composition 101: A. Lincoln, Instructor. After using the impending Oscars as a news peg, Kevin Coyne writes: Writing is thinking, and if you don’t think clearly abo...
What Twitter really looks like 28 Jan 2013 | 11:09 pm
Via The Atlantic.com, Megan Garber shows us What Twitter Really Looks Like. Excerpt: I just watched the West Coast wake up. On Twitter. I did it by watching the lights come on on Tweetping, which visu...
How to verify information from tweets: Check it out 22 Jan 2013 | 09:24 pm
Via The Buttry Diary, Steve Buttry tells us How to verify information from tweets: Check it out. This is a very helpful guide for anyone doing journalism or advocacy online. Excerpt: Journalists shoul...
2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web 2 Jan 2013 | 05:47 am
Thanks to Jay Rosen for tweeting the link to this amazing item. Via McGarr Solicitors, an Irish law firm: 2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web. Excerpt: This is not a joke. I have ...
Why are so many news sites still so unreadable? A few of the best and worst 26 Dec 2012 | 08:36 pm
Via PandoDaily.com, Hamish McKenzie writes: Why are so many news sites still so unreadable? A few of the best and worst. This is a long-overdue protest. Excerpt: A few years ago, the resolution on our...
"Snow Fall": Another opinion 23 Dec 2012 | 11:19 pm
Via PandoDaily.com: Snow Fall: Finally an articulation for the digerati of what a big, expensive newsroom can do. Excerpt: The future of journalism is about speed, volume, rough and tumble and– like t...
"Snow Fall": Is this the new long form of webwriting? 21 Dec 2012 | 09:13 am
I have just read, watched, and listened to John Branch's Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek published by The New York Times. Anyone who writes long text for the web needs to become familiar with...
Le Blog de Jean-Paul Sartre 26 Nov 2012 | 10:12 am
You really need to have grown up when Sartre was in full cry to appreciate it, but this New Yorker piece is still pretty funny: Jean-Paul Sartre's Blog. The first post: Saturday, 11 July, 1959: 2:07 A...
