Category Archive for 'Best of the day's links'

links for 2008-11-05

Historic home pages: Lost Remote TV Blog
What a good idea: Lost Remotes has screen grabs of the home pages: ten minutes polls after closed on the West Coast. I was, ahem, in bed.
(tags: lost remote, us election, homepages, screen grab, historic home pages, obama victory)

links for 2008-11-03

comScore Reports 6.5 Million Americans Watched Mobile Video in August
Is 2009 going to be the year of mobile? What exactly does that mean anyway? I think mobile will increasingly become a part of our MSM consumption.
(tags: fromtheonline comscore mobile video)

links for 2008-10-31

News: Giant Lego man washed up on Brighton beach | Features | thelondonpaper
Brilliant… but I didn’t see it this morning though. Big PR stunt? Ooo, colleague said he did see it.
(tags: legoman londonpaper fromtheonline)

Twitter ? Halloween
How much fun to be had with this… sadly they don’t work with Twhirl. Not sure about other Twitter viewers.
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-10-30

journalism research - Researching news just got networked
I’ve joined this site today: will be interesting to see how it takes off. I hope some academic researchers get on board too, to widen discussions a bit.
(tags: journalism research socialnetwork ning)

News technology firm Daylife launches aggregation portal | Media | guardian.co.uk
Need to read more on this… do [...]

links for 2008-10-29

Woman arrested for killing virtual husband in Maple Story - Times Online
A Japanese piano teacher has been arrested for the murder of her virtual husband after an abrupt but messy online divorce … “The spurned make-believe wife was so angry at being jilted that she logged into the game using her partner’s password and destroyed [...]

links for 2008-10-27

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | The town in the cloud…
cloud computing… big data
(tags: bbc cloudcomputing data fromtheonline media)

Twitter Basics for Journalists & Recovering Journos — contentious.com
A beginners’ guide to Twitter
(tags: twitter fromtheonline media)

links for 2008-10-24

Jonathan Ross on BBC1
Well Daniel Craig very very boring compared to Grace Jones and Tony ‘women are my life’ Curtis so far…
(tags: bbc1 jonathanross tonycurtis)

BLOG08 - a set on Flickr
Pictures from Blog08 today in Amsterdam
(tags: AnneHelmond blog08 flickr stream)

links for 2008-10-23

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Fat newspaper profits are history
Nice detailed piece that needs a second read…
(tags: newsosaur alandmutter newspapers fromtheonline)

UK ranked 23rd for press freedom | Media | guardian.co.uk
Really need to take a good look at this report…
(tags: rsf press freedom fromtheonline)

links for 2008-10-21

Birmingham Post - New Birmingham Post Launch Edition digital edition
Birmingham’s Post’s new look
(tags: regional birminghameveningpost)

Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
Y’know the Blog thing, it’s so like, 2004
(tags: blogging blogs fromtheonline)

GMAIL TOOLBOX: 60+ Tools For Gmail - Mashable
As much as I resent Google’s domination of my life I think I’ll be trying some of [...]

links for 2008-10-20

Everything I know about reporters I learned from the movies :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews
Not always! Lois Lane and Clark Kent! The reason people get into journalism, yeah?
(tags: hollywood reporters fromtheonline)