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Did the internet begin dying in September 2008?

Shift your eyes away from the main search results and look to the right side of those screenshots. That’s where Google makes it’s money with AdWords … and that spot is blank in three of the four examples above. […] There's an interesting story about ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  Google Inc.

Google Latitude’s Location History provides more opportunities for mobile journalism

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. Location History (shown above) allows you to ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  Hubert Burda,  Pew Research Center,  Project for Excellence in Journalism

Presentation: Law for bloggers and journalists (UK)

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 ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  Google Inc.,  Hubert Burda,  Pew Research Center,  Project for Excellence in Journalism

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

Their innovations included making the text scannable with blue text for key words (see above), high contrast, and being limited to two fonts. They cleaned up the logo (optimising it, essentially), and printed comments next to the articles they ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  Google Inc.,  Hubert Burda,  Pew Research Center,  Project for Excellence in Journalism

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

A great list from @macloo "to demonstrate to journalists (not graphics reporters) what Flash can do" […] Looks like paid content really does work. FT Group profits rose 13 percent to £195 million ($277 million) in 2008, “as growth of digital and ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NYSE,  Google Inc.,  Hubert Burda,  Pew Research Center,  Project for Excellence in Journalism

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

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: ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  NYSE,  Hubert Burda,  Pew Research Center,  Project for Excellence in Journalism

Let’s do something interesting with the OJB Facebook Group

And Belle’s secret was known to more people than just her boyfriends. Since the Times published its story a few hours ago, various friends of Magnanti have admitted to being in on the secret. Most were bloggers who knew her from her science blogging ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.,  Hubert Burda,  Pew Research Center,  Project for Excellence in Journalism

Model for a 21st Century Newsroom – in Spanish

In April Maxim Salomatin translated the Model for a 21st Century Newsroom series into Russian. Now Mauro Accurso has translated it into Spanish. All 6 parts, which make up around 10,000 or so words. It’s an incredible feat, and I’m enormously grateful. ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Google Inc.

Google Latitude Adds Features with Potential for Journalists

"Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, E-media Tidbits,  11 Nov 2009

Research: news execs don’t know what their users want

how much content is valued by execs and readers, how easy the two camps think it is to find alternative sources of news; and where readers would go if the website was turned off. That last question shows the biggest disconnect, As reproduced below, an ...

From PAUL BRADSHAW, Online Journalism Blog,  10 Nov 2009

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