I seem to be moving my blogging to Facebook
Perhaps it is the novelty value, perhaps it is the sense that on Facebook I am addressing friends while on this blog I am mostly addressing people I don’t know but the impulse that would once have sent...
View ArticleOne for my RSS reading friends
You may have my main blog feed in your RSS readers but did you realise that I am now producing seven RSS feeds? (plus a stream of status updates which are hopefully only available to friends on...
View ArticleFrom D.R. Brake to Dr Brake…
For those of you not following me on Facebook or on twitter (drbrake) I submitted my doctoral thesis back in April and today it was formally examined. I was asked to provide some minor revisions and...
View ArticleWanted: theoretical and empirical evidence for benefits of online...
I am working on a presentation for IAMCR 2010 about the need to adjust media literacy education to encompass new forms of online practice and I would value your help, fellow netizens and academics. I...
View ArticleGlobal voices… but of the intelligentsia
Interesting – I just stumbled across a blog post about the demographics of contributors to Global Voices – the source I know best of news and information in blog form from a non-Western perspective....
View ArticleNegotiating privacy settings – my own case
I have argued in my thesis (and hope to argue at greater length in book form) that protection of online privacy in practice is not simply a matter of offering the right controls but for users is a...
View ArticleTechnorati’s “State of the Blogosphere” v disappointing
Back in 2004 when Technorati, a blog search engine, started to publish information annually about who bloggers were and what they wrote it was gold, because stats were very hard to find. Now that most...
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I so wish we could uninvent Twitter
Of course it has a role for easy, quick communication of relatively unimportant information but I fear that its very availability and ease means that like some kind of online kudzu it is expanding and...
View ArticleOnline journalists benefit from legal access to huge image library
If you are using images online as a journalist you need to ensure that you have the rights to put them on your site legally. If you do a Google image search, click on “search tools” and select “usage...
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Be careful what you ask for…
As an media scholar and journalist with an interest in the digital divide, I have long believed that one of the things that media outlets could do a lot better is using their higher profile to give a...
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