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Labour Party to use 'Against the Odds' film in election fight

The New Statesman reports that the Labour Party is to use the short 'Against the odds' film as part of its effort to fight the next election after a campaign by bloggers. It's a short history of the Labour movement and is stirring stuff. It...

Posted Nov 16 2009, 11:26 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Labour, General Election 2010, The Stilettoed Socialist, New Statesman

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Agencies not using social media well

The ad agency world is not shining when it comes to using social media to market itself, according to new research, but is pretty good at setting things up blogs and Twitter accounts and then infrequently updating them. Overall, the **research from search...

Posted Nov 16 2009, 10:19 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 12 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, social media, Twitter, LinkedIn, AKQA, Publicis

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A Huffington Post for Europe

A Huffington Post style start-up news site is up and running in Germany with plans later for an English version apparently in the pipeline. Techcrunch reports that German Web 2.0 figure Lukasz Gadowski , who was previously behind online t-shirt firm Spreadshirt...

Posted Oct 29 2009, 11:21 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Huffingtonpost, The European, Lukasz Gadowski, Robert Maxwell, Andrew Neil, Telegraph Group

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"Twitter: Unpoliced playground for paedos"

There was I under the impression there were not a great deal of teens on Twitter, when the Sun sticks on its front page this morning that the micro blogging service has become "a free and easy hunting ground for paedophiles seeking to lure kids for...

Posted Oct 23 2009, 09:22 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, social media, Twitter, child protection

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Hyperlocal; a goldmine or fool's gold?

Fast Company takes a look at the hyperlocal market that everyone is watching, which some say is a multi-billion dollar future of online, but might not amount to anything much more than a sizeable pile of nickels. The projections say, according to Borrell...

Posted Aug 17 2009, 11:27 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Associated Newspapers, Blogging, Craigslist, Trinity Mirror, AOL, Brownstoner., Hyperlocal, Examiner.com, the new yok times, Fast Company, outside.in. Baristanet, Patch, San Diego News Network, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Newsquest, Borrell Associates

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AOL: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of unemployed journalists

AOL, the former dial-up internet juggernaut, now online content and display advertising somethingortheother, seems to be building a vast Ark - a rescue vessel for the unemployed journalists who were nearly washed away in the floods of the foretold mediapocalypse...

Posted Jul 30 2009, 11:04 AM by Dan Leahul with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, journalism, AOL, Jonathan Miller

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Blog profits, the apocalypse is off

In the UK last week blogging outfit Shiny Media went into administration, but across the pond Nick Denton's Gawker is in rude health despite his apocalyptic predictions. Last Autumn Denton grabbed a few headlines when he said we should be preparing...

Posted Jul 28 2009, 01:52 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Gawker, Shiny Media

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Harsh lessons: blogs belong on the internet

Who would have guessed? The idea of printing a newspaper full of blogs, you know, on like actual paper is not a winner. Well, back in January, while the some of us were still trying to work off the turkey and the gazillion ridiculous non-Christmas like...

Posted Jul 09 2009, 09:25 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Blogging, Hyperlocal, the new yok times, The Printed Blob

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DailyCaller.com to take on Huffington and Tina Brown

Don't know much about former MSNBC and now Fox personality Tucker Carlson, but he launching a site called DailyCaller.com to take on the HuffingtonPost.com and Tina Brown's Daily Beast. Report earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal that...

Posted May 29 2009, 03:31 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Huffingtonpost, US media, Tina Brown, Dailycaller.com

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State of Play - new media versus old

Some cracking reviews of the 'State of Play' movie appearing, which has amongst its many plotlines something of the current clash between new and old media, between print and bloggers, about it. It is almost portrayed as print's last stand...

Posted Apr 23 2009, 12:34 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, The Guardian, The Washington Post, US media, State of Play

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After smeargate Labour using social media well

About the same time as the Damian McBride and Derek Draper Red Rag smear story was breaking, I got sent an email about how the Labour Party is using the digital media for something other than trying to launder scurrilous stories about opposition politicians...

Posted Apr 15 2009, 12:01 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Labour, social media, Conservatives, LabourSpace, Labourlist, Derek Draper

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Is Twitter becoming like MySpace

Interesting post on Techcrunch asking if Twitter is becoming more like MySpace, which wants to be more like Facebook which…wants to be more like Twitter. Well life's a smorgasbord. Written by Mrinal Desai, an early employee of LinkedIn, he lists some...

Posted Apr 02 2009, 09:35 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, Myspace, social media, Twitter, Celebrity Sellout, celebrity, 50 Cent

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When blogs grow up: HuffPo invests, but niggling questions remain

Big news at the Huffington Post with a $1.75m investment in investigative reporting signalling the continued expansion of blogs beyond linking and comment, but some are also wondering if this is at all connected to the thorny issue of content scraping...

Posted Mar 30 2009, 11:51 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Gawker, Huffingtonpost, MinnPost, content scraping, Chicago Reader, Roger Rbert

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Celebrities on Twitter, mostly fake

I blogged a couple of months ago asking why would you follow a celebrity on Twitter? No surprise, but the New York Times has a piece today revealing that many celebs don't twitter themselves, their PA's do it. So really why, unless you want to...

Posted Mar 27 2009, 09:36 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, social media, Twitter, Celebrity Sellout, celebrity, baseball, 50 Cent

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Content scraping bloggers in the firing line

Content scraping is how a lot of blogs have made their name, but as the downturn bites and newspapers look for digital revenues, taking other people's work content is becoming a contentious issue. In most cases when people talk about content scraping...

Posted Mar 03 2009, 12:55 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Huffingtonpost, The New York Times, US media, content scraping

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Labour Party to use 'Against the Odds' film in election fight

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Agencies not using social media well

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A Huffington Post for Europe

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"Twitter: Unpoliced playground for paedos"

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Hyperlocal; a goldmine or fool's gold?

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AOL: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of unemployed journalists

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Blog profits, the apocalypse is off

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Harsh lessons: blogs belong on the internet

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DailyCaller.com to take on Huffington and Tina Brown

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State of Play - new media versus old

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After smeargate Labour using social media well

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Is Twitter becoming like MySpace

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When blogs grow up: HuffPo invests, but niggling questions remain

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Celebrities on Twitter, mostly fake

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Content scraping bloggers in the firing line