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• Did the internet begin dying in September 2008?

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  Nicholas Moerman has put together an impressive collection of graphs showing a general decline over the past year in visits to mainstream websites across a raft of categories, from content and commerce to portals and porn. The only category that bucks the trend? I’ll let you [...]

  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:31pm EST by Paul Bradshaw

• Google Latitude?s Location History provides more opportunities for mobile journalism

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  This was originally published in Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits last week

  Google Latitude – a service that allows people to see where you are – has launched 2 new services – Location History and Location Alerts - that provide some interesting potential for mobile journalism.

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:03am EST by Paul Bradshaw

• Presentation: Law for bloggers and journalists (UK)

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  Yesterday I hosted a session on law for my MA Online Journalism students, which I thought I would embed below.

  Some background: I teach all my sessions in a coffee shop in central Birmingham – anyone can drop in. This week I specifically invited local bloggers, and [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:23am EST by Paul Bradshaw

• What if a newspaper was designed using principles of user experience design?

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  What if a newspaper was designed using principles of web user experience design*? That’s the question that design agency Information Architects asked themselves when they put together a pitch for Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. They lost the pitch, but the blog post about their ideas is fascinating [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:23am EST by Paul Bradshaw

• The fall of a news site: the Spanish case of Soitu.es

  

  Like in the music or art fields, we, the Spanish-speaking people, allways look to the Anglo-American world to see what the new trends and innovation about digital journalism are (and laugh when Rupert Murdoch opens his mouth).

  But now we can show our own [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:28am EST by Mauro Accurso

• 2 videos: How social media changed the journalist?s day; and making money from content

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  Here are 2 very interesting videos from a recent talk by Karl Schneider, Head of editorial development at B2B publisher Reed Business Information, at UCA Farnham. In the first Schneider takes a look at how the typical journalist’s day has changed – I particularly like the concept [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:48pm EST by Paul Bradshaw

• What I was told when I asked about blogs joining the PCC

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  Following recent coverage of the PCC’s Baroness Buscombe’s Independent interview where she possibly mooted the idea of the PCC regulating blogs, I thought I would share some correspondence I had with the PCC recently over the same issue. In a nutshell: blogs can already [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:15pm EST by Paul Bradshaw

• Baroness Buscombe, the Press Complaints Commission and the Internet: Hard Questions

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  Baroness Buscombe, the Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, gave a speech this week to the Society of Editors, followed by some comments to Ian Burrell of the Independent about a desire [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:43am EST by Matt Wardman