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Technology isn’t a guarantee of journalistic success

Feb

2013

Technology puts you in contact with people, but it doesn’t give you their attention. A reporter can have all the smartphones, iPads and software on the planet. If the interviewee doesn’t want to talk, there is no story. A journalist must know how to use gadgets in a way that don’t stop him or her from doing their job. ...

Can a Facebook ‘like’ Make You a Criminal? 1

Feb

2013

The Supreme Court of the Philippines has been debating whether ‘liking’ a defamatory comment on Facebook makes you guilty of libel. To date, no one has been prosecuted specifically for ‘liking’ a statement, link or photograph posted by someone else. Last year, a judge in Virginia ruled that ‘liking’ was not covered by the first ...

Twitter’s real face

Feb

2013

Looking like the sort of fake futuristic technology you’d see in an episode of 24, Tweetping, a stunning new visualisation from French designer Franck Ernewein, highlights the exact location of every tweet on the planet with a bright blue pixel. In real time. At the bottom of the window, underneath the rapidly changing map, you ...

Social media tools to use (more) in 2013

Jan

2013

Being a student puts you in touch with new resources, but it also makes you wonder how people in real newsrooms are actually using tools to reach out to readers. So I asked some of my former colleagues what are the most interesting tools they will try to use more frequently in 2013. The three ...

A twitterstorm in a teacup 2

Nov

2012

Online communities have more in common with their offline counterparts than you might think. The capacity to share and transmit information, make contacts and form relationships can be offset by bullying or cliquishness that prevents communication with others outside the group. Striking a balance between the two can be tricky. A recent twitterstorm at City ...

Why internet comments are better than vox-pops 2

Nov

2012

John Robinson blogged a couple of days ago about “sticking a fork in ‘man-on-the-street’ interviews“ aka vox-pops. To take his point a little bit further, this pooling of public opinion feels increasingly outdated now readers can choose the issues they want to comment upon. Vox-pops contain a degree of fakery, in so far as the person ...

Is Social Media the answer to solving crimes?

Apr

2012

This morning the Boston Police Force accredited social media for their increase in crime solving. The Boston Police Department has seen a rise in crime solving tips thanks to social media and the department’s large Twitter following. The Boston Police Force has more than 39,200 followers on Twitter. Last year they set up a Twitter ...

Social Media Editor for the Hackney Post: Week 1

Mar

2012

By Abby Young-Powell This week I have been Social Media Editor for the Hackney Post. It has been stimulating, hard work and a learning curve. Here is some of what I have learnt so far… Those who don’t know may (wrongly) assume that it’s an easy job, to Tweet for a living. So you’ve just ...

The Guardian’s TV advert shows how news now embraces social media

Mar

2012

The Guardian’s open news TV advert shows how The Three Little Pigs story would be covered in print and online. The video charts the news story after the little pigs hit the headlines for boiling the wolf alive. Conversation moves from print to the web as the issue is debated via Twitter and other social ...

Is social media bad for your health?

Feb

2012

Yesterday Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, took to the lectern at a Montreal business conference and said over-use of his micro-blogging site is bad for your health. “I like the kind of engagement where you go to the website and you leave because you’ve found what you are looking for or you found something very interesting ...

#twittamentary – A storify of the show

Feb

2012

Interhacktives contributors @Andrewstuart and @r_ratclif went to see the #twittamentary screening as part of social media week, presented by Media 140. Here is our Storify of the event. The Twittamentary shown at the Innovation Warehouse as part of Social Media Week – London. These are the tweets from @interhacktives and others around it. View the story ...

365 storytellers take on a Year

Feb

2012

3hundredand65 is a collaborative online storytelling project that’s raising money to support the Teenage Cancer Trust by inviting contributors to “crowdauthor a graphic novel”. Each day, a new writer progresses the story via a single Tweet to the organizers. Their tweet is then illustrated and added to the website. The plot is a science fiction, ...