Jul
24
Bloggers Circle: week one assessment
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The Bloggers Circle launched on Monday. I had very few expectations. This time last week it was a group of 30 blogs, all of which I read regularly and mostly I’d met the bloggers in person (a rare form of intimacy online!). Whilst I was intrigued so see how it would turn out, I did [...]
Jul
23
Journalism matters but so do big news organisations
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The Media Standards Trust* is organising a series of events: ‘Why Journalism Matters’. The keynote speakers, Lionel Barber and Alan Rusbridger have both argued that journalism does matter and that it is being practised by more people than ever before. Both speakers pointed to innovations such as blogs, Twitter, Google docs and Wikileaks as the [...]
Jul
21
Does Twitter encourage intimacy?
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A number of different people have talked to me in the last few weeks about Twitter and intimacy. I was running a workshop for civil servants at the DCMS – thanks to the introduction from @marxculture – and many worried that Twitter was too intimate: that they would sacrifice too much privacy for too little [...]