It’s embedded YouTube videos and embraced social bookmarking, but in one particular area BBC News Online has always remained a little old fashioned: related links have remained fenced in the right-hand navigation pane. Earlier, DanG spotted that the Beeb is trialling bringing links in from the cold; placing them in the body copy where they [...]
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Posted in internet, online journalism on Aug 8th, 2008
How’s this for a paper trail? Dave writes a blog post bemoaning the distance between him and Marmite, I take a photo of my breakfast and post it on Flickr, somebody writing about whether wholemeal bread is healthy asks to use it to illustrate their post, I end up blogging about the whole thing. Correct: [...]
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Posted in online journalism on Aug 1st, 2008
As regular reader(s) will know, I read BBC News Online a fair bit. Even so, I’ve never noticed this before. I’m slightly embarrassed that it’s in such a story of prurient interest, but there you go. So, searching the Beeb for Newstracker reveals that, at least in theory, this has been running since 2004. It’s [...]
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I expect I’m not alone in noticing some entertaining needling between the Guardian and Telegraph in recent months, as the two scrap for first loser when it comes to web views – the BBC leads by a mile, The Mail snaps at their heels. No doubt it’s driven by valid concerns and genuine differences, the [...]
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Posted in blog, online journalism on May 29th, 2008
Or: Why newspapers should wake up and smell the link etiquette. Been meaning to post on this for a while… now Mark Higginson has gawn done it, with this incisive observation on how annoying it is when websites insist on treating themselves as a final destination rather than one point on a journey. He takes [...]
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Posted in internet, online journalism on May 22nd, 2008
There’s been a bit of Twitter-bashing around the office recently – mainly by those who haven’t tried it. Some of the carping might as well be saying that ‘conversation’ is pointless because a lot of folk spend all day talking about Amy and Britney. It’s not about the most popular content of the medium, it’s [...]
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Posted in digression, online journalism on May 7th, 2008
Sorry, I know, I know, it’s about the BBC again, but I’ve just realised that there’s an increasing vogue on BBC News for bunging up a bit of video without sound, or without any commentary, detail or analysis. Hell, even I can do that (I wouldn’t bother watching this, incidentally: it’s not that interesting) And, [...]
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I’ve come to a mini-realisation. There is no getting away from IT. Let me fill you in – I used to work in tech support, which was OK, but there’s only so many progress meters a man can take. If you laid mine end to end they’d probably reach Belgium. My plan was to begin [...]
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Posted in online journalism on Apr 4th, 2008
OK, let’s see if you can spot the flaw in this particular child-protection idea simply by reading the following standfirst: Sex offenders’ e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children. Any inkling why that might not work? Frankly, I find it astounding that anyone [...]
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Posted in online journalism on Mar 31st, 2008
I’m particularly bleary-eyed this morning, so I’d read half a story before I noticed, but the BBC seems to have changed the layout of its stories. Interestingly, they haven’t changed the front page (yet?), so the two don’t match particularly well. UPDATE: Ah, must have caught them mid-change, here’s the new front page. I like [...]
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