Category: Blogging
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Bank holiday
I hope everyone is having a good bank holiday weekend! 🙂
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Newsnight weather on Have I Got News for You
If, like me, you are a fan of Newsnight, then you will find this clip very funny. It all stems back to the brief time that Jeremy Paxman did the weather forecast. His jems include: “Rain except in those places that don’t have rain” “Take an umbrella with you tomorrow” “It’s a veritable Smorgasbord, rain,…
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Blogging Becomes A Corporate Job
A job in blogging, a new trend? A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits. ……
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Printer-friendly version Online forums, bloggers become vital media outlets in Bahrain
Mark Glaser writes in the Online Journalism Review on how blogging is a growing phenomenon in the tiny Gulf state of Bahrain. A quick look by myself also reveals a growth of blogging in my regular haunt of Dubai and the UAE as a whole.
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Measuring the Impact of Blogs
Carl Bialik writing in the Wall Street Journal discusses the number of visitors weblogs in the US are getting. He points out that: The total number of active blogs — those with a post in the past 30 days — was 3.5 million on May 1, according to BlogPulse. That was up just 30% from…
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Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay
John Naughton gets the balance right here: What’s happening is a small but significant change in our media ecology. All journalists worth their salt have always known that out there are readers, listeners or viewers who know more about a story than they do. But until recently, there was no effective way for this erudition…
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Death by a Thousand Blogs
Nick Kristoff’s piece about China and blogging has been making the rounds on the blogosphere – it is a good piece, and well worth a read. To save you clicking the link, here’s the whole thing: The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and…
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Marketers take a shine to blogs
Can blogging help with marketing books? I am inclined to think I can, these guys tried it anyway: Four journalists who brought news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy into U.S. living rooms in 1963 have found a new level of fame by using the Internet to market their book about the experience.…
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Podcasting
If I were to start Podcasting, what basic equipment do people recommend? I am thinking a Net-MD recorder, along with a reasonably good mic. I have been reading up on it here. Thoughts anyone?
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Revenge of the Sith
I quite enjoyed it – but can anyone explain to me this little problem in the story line. If Padme died immediately after birth, how the hell does Leia remember anything about her, as she describes in Episode VI? I was thinking, until I re-read the Return of the Jedi script, that Luke may have…