Category Archives: twitter
Independently Funded News Consortium in Wales bids: Taliesin, Tinopolis, UTV
A review of the three bids of the INFC funding for a news pilot in Wales. Interviews with Taliesin, Tinopolis and NWN Media. Continue reading
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Taliesin News Consortium and Cardiff Journalism School
My review of the Taliesen bid for regional pilot news in Wales, following a focus group with Taliesen and Cardiff Journalism Diploma students. Continue reading
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Someone drops the ball in Tory HQ
Most people will by now have seen the very nice photos of Mr Cameron in various cities across the UK saying he won’t cut NHS spending. There is one in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and other parts of South Wales where … Continue reading
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2010: the year I get a job
Happy New Year everyone and I hope you all had a lovely break with your families and friends. Those of you who follow my tweets will know that I didn’t get stuck in the Eurostar pre christmas mess and did … Continue reading
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Trending #hashtags on Twitter and their uses for journalists
This short post is mainly about #cake. #cake was created by my friend as a treat for his developer buddies. It was a chocolate cake with the words #cake written onto it. I say was because I believe it has … Continue reading
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Google Wave and Journalism Part 2
About 6 people in JOMEC currently have access to Google Wave and we have been experimenting with the system for a few weeks now. We are hoping to get all of the postgraduate students online but it takes time to get … Continue reading
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Social Media and Live Events
On Friday I worked as a runner for the BBC Radio 4 roadshow, who were broadcasting Any Questions from the Cardiff Business School. During the broadcast I got the opportunity to sit at the back and watch while one of … Continue reading
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Trafigura and the people of Abidjan
Trafigura’s name has been dragged through the public muck this week, thanks to the great defenders of democracy; The Guardian and Twitter. The media storm which developed from Trafigura and Carter Ruck trying to prevent the Guardian publishing the Minton … Continue reading
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BBC Website fail and Twitter
This evening I was looking at the BBC website reading the news. About 7 o’clock I clicked back to the news site only to see a message telling me it was not available due to a problem with a DNS … Continue reading
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