December 2010
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Top Tweeps
The Follow Friday phenomenon on Twitter is a crowd-driven meme that provides thousands of recommendations each Friday. Like TwitPic and URL shortening services, this trend has generated a life of its own within (and outside) the Twittersphere. All you have to do is follow someone suggested by those you already follow and there is a reasonable chance you will like their content too. It is a great...
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Community News
In my last post, I raised the concept of local news being produced and delivered by local people for local people in an organisational form I like to refer to as Community News. Community News organisations are the antithesis of control media. For the uninitiated, control media is media where the content is controlled and managed by the elaborate gatekeeping process undertaken by editors and...
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News Trends in 2011
“As the Earth nears a completely arbitrary point in it’s rotation, we are forced to once again pretend we care, remark upon how quickly it went and pretend we’re going to change our behaviours in significant ways” - Drew Sturgiss (1988-2012)
The other odd occurrence of year end is the parade of predictions for the coming year/decade/century and the navel-gazing epitaphs...