#journalism

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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/linkrot-content-drift...

I keep thinking I should do a link rot analysis of my blog, and just clean out all the posts that ar...

alasdairw May 24, 2021
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http://www.emergent.info/

Real-time bullshit tracker - check those stories floating around twitter or facebook.

alasdairw Oct 02, 2014

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3009577/open-company/thi...

The next time someone tells you the internet is killing our attention span, send them here. This is...

alasdairw May 16, 2013

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

Interesting stuff, and that I will have to read when time permits.

alasdairw May 01, 2012

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/03/i-cant-stop-readi...

Here's an interesting insight into the view-economics of web-based journalism. Short version: linkb...

alasdairw Mar 22, 2012

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/12/institutions-...

Clay Shirky on the newspaper business, and the nature of institutions.

alasdairw Dec 07, 2011

http://www.fleetstreetfox.com/2011/08/more-picture...

A counter-argument: it is excellent that at A-level results time, the papers fill up with photos of...

alasdairw Aug 18, 2011

http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/

A blog exploring the hypothesis that UK newspapers believe that only attractive girls in low cut top...

alasdairw Aug 18, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/au...

Here's a thrilling example of our lack of privacy in the 21st century. There really not a lot that'...

alasdairw Aug 05, 2011

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-cl...

To any news-publishing company execs who are reading this: I would pay in the region of 25 quid a ye...

alasdairw May 05, 2011

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-g...

Handy set of guides for getting useful structured/meaningful data out of websites.

alasdairw Jan 18, 2011

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/...

And of course, as this makes clear, Lieberman and Amazon are very much missing the point. This is n...

alasdairw Dec 02, 2010

http://gizmodo.com/5687692/you-write-bias-journali...

Joel Johnson treats people who write the comments on gizmodo like they deserve to be treated.

alasdairw Nov 12, 2010

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-pay...

Lots in here, but here's the key thing: "This re-engineering suggests that paywalls don’t and can’t...

alasdairw Nov 09, 2010

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php

I've been Instapapering stuff ever since I got my iPad for weeks now, and not quite finding the time...

alasdairw Jul 29, 2010