More marking today and I’m finding interesting things about Preston and the people there. I’m also learning a lot about what I need to teach people before they leave us for the uncertain “real-world”. We all learn from assignments in ivorytowerville.

So, whilst I digest tails of dogging (no, I’m not adding that to my tags), Chess, parks, boxing, teen pregnancy and the credit crunch here is the stuff that I’ve been distracting myself with.

Most of what I’ve been marking is stuff online so I was interested in a post from Sam Shepherd commenting on why subs are still vital(maybe more so) on the web in light of Press complaints commission ruling on the coverage of a mans suicide.“Standards, codes, ethics, quality; these rules still apply” I agree but perhaps that’s one of the tough pills to swallow in these leaner times. Perhaps we let the responsibility for that stuff slide. Time for individual journos to take back that skill?

Also pondering (or pontificating) on those leaner times is Paul Mason, economics editor of the BBC’s Newsnight programme and NUJ rep gives his views (on video) on the uncertain times ahead. Comment about this video has been sharp, particularly for his “pyjama bloggers” comment. But if you listen to the first 3 minutes that seems unfair .

Despite continuous goading by Tim Gopsil, Paul keeps his line. But 3 minutes in and Paul loses it. I think the question was worse than the rant that comes next “what’s the difference between the stuff that trained journalists produce and the poor stuff that badly trained people produce” What kind of a question is that!

Paul thinks that the union can be the gel that helps inform organisations going multimedia when the models are still not there. This does little to convince me that they can. Worse still it seems that the only way they can see to sustain the ‘craft of journalism’ is to help support the models that no longer work. Oooh, me blood is boiling just thinking about it.

A much better bet to get a handle on what we should be thinking about is Zac Echola’s Cutting the cords, bridging the gaps. Getting this online stuff is a journey not a destination and we have a while before industry aligns itself with the new audiences out there let alone those of us immersed in this stuff. Zac strikes a nice balance on this front and adds to the mix nicely. As does this post by Alex Gamela where he asks the media industry to think about whether this whole thing is about The vehicle, the road or the voyage

More intelligence on where we go next can be found at the Guardian who feature Clay Shirky’s predictions for the future of print and broadcast in the Guardian. For Print? Well “The 500-year-old accident of economics occasioned by the printing press - high upfront cost and filtering happening at the source of publication - is over.” and it don’t get much better for TV “The question is who figures out the business model that says it’s better to have 6 million passionate fans than 7 million bored ones?” Ouch.

In  a similar vein Telegraph digital editor Ed Rousell gives a dose of reality “For decades now, newspaper newsrooms have centered on “going to press,” which has meant pointing all efforts towards a single deadline that culminates in the publishing of a definitive version of a story.” And yet we still build the model round it. Shades of my mon0media funnel of despair come to haunt me.

By the way both of those links came via Mark Hamilton’s Daily Squibs -one of the most consistently useful things I read. Go see. It’s good pickings.

Go on! Shoo!

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Here is today’s collection of links and things that have come my way in between marking.

First off is something that makes me feel less guilty about giving you lots of links to work with. Gina Chen at Save the Media notes that linking was missing from list of 10 Tips for Journalists Who Blog, and posts about why it’s so important. It is, it really is. One thing I’m asked A LOT by journalists that I meet is ‘How do i get my blog more popular/visible/in search engines?’ I say “link”.

It’s still a surprise that so many ‘blogs’ published on MSM sites continue to appear without one link in the posts. THAT’S NOT BLOGGING. A link is about recognizing/being part of a bigger discussion. As Kirk Lapointe points out in his reflection on his first year blogging ” Giving credit where it’s due is a virtue online because your community feels respected, encouraged and understood.”

Tim Windsor muses on Don Tapscott’s take on the new digital audiences in his book  Grown Up Digital and asks Who are the digital natives? And what do they want? He then asks you “How are your sites changing to meet the increased expectation of Gen Net?” Do you need to ask that question? Are all young people Gen Net? What about Gen Off-Net? And doesn’t the media depend on the fact that a good deal of young people turn in to the same kind of old people their folks are?  Almost like having a demographic band that people move in to rather than defined by peoples behavior. Anyway, it’s an interesting read.

Picking up on yesterdays theme of recommendation (hello to today’s new twitter followers) Elaine Helm has some recommendations for Journo blogs to follow at Wired Journalists. One in particular that I hadn’t seen before was Brian Boyer’s Sixth W. What’s the sixth w? who, what, where, when, why and web.  I like that. I also hadn’t seen Matt McAlister’s Inside Online media. Posting is light, but good. I particularly like his post on Why the open strategy is a good idea.

Another source that gets a mention in the comments on Helm’s post is Delicious’ popular posts tagged with journalism. If you don’t use Delicious I would highly recommend you give it a whirl. Think of it like Digg but without the viral videos. Before you do, you might want to check out Jason Falls’ The Practical Guide To Content Tagging In Social Bookmarking which talks about tagging. I think delicious is a great place to learn/try tagging as it shows how it can work personally and then that experience can transfer across to the way you tag for an audience. It’s the future you know.

Talking of new discoveries and useful things, my new glut of twitter followers has included a number with non-English language blogs that are rather spiffing. These include the French espritblog.com by Fabrice Gontier, who’s all over multimedia at the wonderfully titled Centre de formation et de perfectionnement des journaliste. The perfectionnement des journaliste, I love that.  Another new follower is Antonio Granad whose blog Ponto Media I’ve been following for a while.  Of course there are plenty of other great foreign language blogs out there including: onlinejournalismus.de, r73.net and the wonderful Alex Gamela’s O Lago.

Alex blogs in English and Portuguese which makes me think the best language for a journalist to learn this year may not be Java or php etc. but an actual foreign language. But as my grasp of a foreign language (to my shame)  doesn’t stretch far beyond what’s on the back of a wine label, I rely on Mloovi to translate foreign language sites in to English RSS feeds so I can get lots of their loveliness in my reader. I use Google reader which picks up the post is a translation and automatically feeds any post you click to through its translator. Cool.

Speaking of useful online tools. It seems that the macworld rumour mill has kicked in with news that imovie may be going in to the cloud. Crunch gear have speculated that macs low-end, iwork video app may be moving online as Apple get to grips with online applications.  Computerworld notes the rumour and wonders if Apple is truly ready to go online after the ‘fiasco’ with MobileMe.

And finally the picture. Yes, its Clay Davis from the pure genius that is The Wire from Toffutibreak via Ben Hammersley’s Other Blog. And if that’s your thing then this may be as well.

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Much as I hate my first post for the new year to be a link list I’m elbow deep in marking at the moment. So here is what I’ve found interesting today.

Business Models for news online - Paul Bradshaw shares a recent presentation and jolly good it is to.

Amani Channel has decided to focus his Urban Report podcast on media production. I like the cut of his jib. And if tech is something on your list to engage with this year then you could do worse then look at Chris Amico’s wiki-like Tools for news

Ten questions for journalists in the era of overload - Matt Thompson poses some interesting questions to ask as we move in to a tough year. Think of them as self-diagnosis

George Hopkin pointed me a the announcement from Nintendo that they are starting a TV channel for the Wii. Considering the broad appeal of the platform this could be the trendsetter moment.

From games platforms to blogging platforms. Over at ZDNet Zack Whittaker seems a little behind the curve with Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future but there are some interesting asides in Zack’s interview.

If Wordpress is your blogging platform of choice, then how about a facelift? Try this list of  wordpress themes. But if you’ve moved to the new version of Wordpress over Christmas then Mindy McAdams has a nice post on dealing with the new dashboard. The post also touches on students blogging which gives me chance to point out a nice post from Alf Hermida, guesting at media shift, about the value of blogging in Journalism education

Talking of Journalism education, Mark Hamilton has a great post offering “A few thoughts for my students before heading back to the classroom”. All my students will be seeing this when they get back along with the widely circulated (and excellent) Resolutions for journalism students from Suzanne Yada.

Mark Luckie over at 10,000words kept me busy this afternoon following a raft of new people as he updated his 10 Journalists you should follow on Twitter which I feature in at No 5, which is wrong for so many reasons, not least because of those who aren’t. But I’ll bask in the kudos and say hello to all those new followers who have made it this far. The post is worth a look for the comments where the decidedly male bias has started an interesting discussion. My wife would say it’s the slightly obsessive/compulsive nature of the male of the species that means there are more of us online.

Still, male or female,  there are more and more of us online as we enter the new year and in the Andy Burnham, our Minister for Culture, has stirred a little mumbling with his idea of ratings for the web. Steve Bowbrick has a great take on this as he focuses on the idea of filters  “What we should do in response to Burnham’s reflex rejection of the net’s openness and permissiveness is get on and provide the filters people need”. He is right and, as many have already said,  it should be one of the things journos look to add to their tool belt.

Of course journos have a lot to think about in the coming year. Over in the US the amount of good news seems in short supply as Jeff Jarvis (and the inneviatable comment discussion afterwards) proves. In the UK, blogger Fleet Street blues has some comparably dire predictions for 2009 including the prediction of a Mea culpa moment.

You can’t keep cutting journalists and demand ever more from them without something cracking. Yes, reporters make mistakes all the time. But expect something spectacular to emerge next year, a mistake, accidental or otherwise, so unavoidable that news editors the length and breadth of the country will have to sit up and take notice. Britain’s Jayson Blair, if you like.

Scary but it has a ring of inevitability about it. But finally, and more positively, Shawn Smith has a great post (and a kind of companion for Suzanne Yada’s post) Forget Survival: The Journalist’s Guide to Owning 2009 and Beyond. I love his starting point

Journalism is NOT dependent on the fate of your employer, newspapers or mass media. Rather, YOU can help decide journalism’s future.

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It’s Carnival of journalism time again and having sat out the last one (sorry Adam) I thought I better get my hand in again. This month’s ringmaster is Spot.us guru David Cohn and his topic - Positive new media predictions for the year 2009.

Now there’s a challenge given the current climate! But I think there is some stuff to be positive about.

As media brands loose value, individual journalists will become more valuable

This will be the year of the journalist
That might sound odd given the layoffs happening all through the media. But I think that we are at a transition point.  The large media ‘brands’ are loosing ground to a more diffuse audience but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a need for content. That means that journalists will be no less important.

Whilst the idea that demand for content outstrips the supply of those capable of creating may not ring true for most it’s clear that a journalist with some web savvy, a good presence online and an understanding of their audience is an increasingly valuable proposition.

As organisations downsize we will begin to see a new layer or ‘freelance’ journalist who are bought in to deliver specialist content. If you are in broadcast you’ll recognise this model as the kind of producer/contract working common in the industry.  The smart organisations will keep a kind of halo of these people around them, bringing the audience they cultivate in to their orbit. The individuals keep a level of autonomy but everyone benefits as the media brand and the individual brand work together.

Europe will step on Google
Paul Bradshaw has already highlighted some issues with Google and the opportunity for new media start-ups, trad media included, that may bring. But (and maybe this isn’t as positive as the first one) given the attitude of ‘because we can’t, you shouldn’t’ attitude of many media orgs, the press in particular, I think we’ll see some moves by the EU to begin to put boundaries on  Google a la Microsoft. Why the media orgs would see this as a sensible prospect rather than finding ways to work round or with Google beggars belief,  but it will happen.

The positive? Well, whilst Google, the EU and large media orgs slug it out, there will be plenty of space for the smaller operators and, as Paul points out, they’ll be ripe for the picking.

So, two predications as possitive as I can make them.  I have some broader and perhaps less positive things to say about video but I’ll save those for another post. For now, based on the first prediction, you shouldnt be listening to me blather on. If you are a journo you should be setting up your own blog and building an audience.

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Fellow UClaner Louise Thomas has published the findings of her research that looked at the use of social bookmarking. Plenty of interesting stuff

The type of bookmarks used also distinguishes the two groups, with links to sites such as Fark, NewsVine, MySpace and NowPublic proving much more popular among nationals than regionals.

While regional websites have a greater percentage of websites using the StumbleUpon (up 18.9% against nationals) and Facebook buttons (up 16.2% against the nationals).

And a nice slideshow of her finding.

Also, check out Louise’s other blogging activities at http://uclan-digital-literacy.blogspot.com/

This makes a nice companion piece to the ever excellent Martin Belam’s new series looking at social bookmarks

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Fench newspapers. Picture by Phil Moore from Flickr

Continuing a Francophile tone to the blog I thought you might find Alain Giraudo’s post on a report of the state of the internet interesting.

He picks up on an article on 20minutes.fr about the “ Etats Généraux de la Presse” - a kind of ‘what’s up with the newspapers then’ report.

Here are the findings (with Google providing a cod-translation)

Fact 1: The global supply of media is growing faster than consumption.
La preuve en chiffres: «Le nombre des chaînes de télévision a triplé en Europe dans les dix dernières années, le nombre des magazines a quadruplé en vingt-cinq ans.
The proof in figures: “The number of television channels in Europe has tripled in the last ten years, the number of magazines has quadrupled in twenty-five years. Chaque jour, le Web grandit de 1,5 million de pages.» Each day, the Web grew by 1.5 million pages. “

Constat 2: Les annonceurs se retirent des médias. Fact 2: Advertisers should withdraw from the media.
Désormais, on voit moins de pubs sous la forme de pages, de spots ou de bannières. Now we see fewer ads in the form of pages, spots or banners. Un changement qui se fait au profit de davantage de sponsorisation, d’événementiel ou de marketing (direct et personnel, via les réseaux sociaux par exemple).
A change to be made with more sponsorship of events or marketing (direct and personal, via social networks, for example).

Constat 3. Fact 3. La hausse continue de la consommation de médias va de pair en France avec une dispersion des audiences entre titres et supports. The continuing rise in the consumption of media goes hand in hand in France with a dispersion of hearings between titles and media.
«A l’élargissement de l’offre, l’audience répond en se fragmentant.» Autrement dit, non seulement les Français consomment de plus en plus de médias différents, mais ils consomment en outre de plus en plus de titres différents. “With the enlargement of the bid, the audience responded by fragmenting.” In other words, not only the French consume more and more different media, but they also consume more different titles.

Constat 4. Fact 4. L’accès classique aux médias (TV, radio, imprimé) est minoritaire chez les 15-24 ans français. Access to traditional media (TV, radio, print) is a minority among the French 15-24.
Bruno Patino parle de «rupture générationnelle». Bruno Patino speaks of “generational break.” En effet, les pratiques multimédias (ordinateur, téléphone mobile, baladeur multimédia, jeux vidéos, etc.) «constituent 50,3% des contacts avec les médias des 15-24 ans français, contre 29,5% pour l’ensemble de la population.» Indeed, practices multimedia (computer, mobile phone, portable multimedia, video games, etc.). “Constituted 50.3% of contacts with the media 15-24 years of French, against 29.5% for the whole of the population. “

Constat 5. Finding 5. Les déplacements quotidiens sont l’occasion d’une consommation de médias et de loisirs numériques où le téléphone l’emporte désormais sur l’imprimé. The daily trips are an opportunity for consumption of media and entertainment where the phone now prevails on the printout.
«Pour trois Français sur quatre les déplacements quotidiens sont une occasion de contact avec les médias et les loisirs numériques. “For three out of four French daily trips are an opportunity to contact the media and entertainment. La radio reste leader (…) au sein de cette population “médiavore” en mouvement»; quant au téléphone, son utilisation explose. Radio remains the leader (…) in this population “médiavore” moving “about the phone use exploded.

Constat 6. Finding 6. La baisse de diffusion payante des médias imprimés est une tendance française avérée. The drop in pay-TV print media is a trend French proved.
Si la presse écrite payée voit sa diffusion faiblir, les premiers signes datent d’avant la montée en puissance d’Internet. If the press paid sees its dissemination falter, the first signs date from before the rise of the Internet. «Au total, la tendance baissière du papier payant est majoritaire, durable et continue.» «Overall, the downward trend of the paper is paying majority, sustainable and continuous.”

Constat 7. Finding 7. La presse imprimée est une dépense mineure dans le budget d’un ménage français. The printed press is a minor expenditure in the budget of a French household.
«Le budget consacré aux médias (2.272 euros par an) représente 8,5 % des dépenses d’un ménage (quand) plus du tiers est alloué à la téléphonie fixe et mobile, loin devant l’audiovisuel et Internet.» “The budget for media (2,272 euros per year) represents 8.5% of a household (when) one third is allocated to fixed and mobile telephony, far ahead of Audiovisual and Internet.”

Constat 8. Finding 8. La recette publicitaire de la presse payante s’installe dans une croissance négative. The advertising revenue of the press pay moved in negative growth.
«Depuis 2004, avec la montée en puissance de la publicité sur Internet, la presse écrite payante facture moins les annonceurs, en France, comme aux Etats-Unis ou au Royaume-Uni.» “Since 2004, with the rise of Internet advertising, print invoices paid less advertisers, France, the United States or the United Kingdom.”

Constat 9. Finding 9. Les quotidiens gratuits (dont 20 Minutes, ndlr) ont la plus grande affinité avec le lectorat français de 15 à 49 ans. The free daily (including 20 Minutes, ie) have the greatest affinity with the French readership of 15 to 49 years.

Constat 10. Finding 10. Le gros consommateur de médias écrits ne se cantonne pas, en France, à un support unique. The big consumer of media is not confined, France, a single support.
«Une lecture forte de quotidiens est corrélée avec un comportement actif sur Internet. “A strong reading newspapers is correlated with an active on the Internet. De même, une lecture forte de magazines est corrélée avec un comportement actif sur Internet. Similarly, a strong reading magazines is correlated with an active on the Internet. Plus largement, l’intérêt pour la presse d’information générale et politique se combine avec un comportement plus actif que la moyenne sur le média Internet.» More broadly, interest in the press and information policy combined with a more active than the average over the Internet media. “

Constat 11. Finding 11. Le média Internet continue de croître en France, en pénétration et en utilisation. The Internet media continues to grow in France, penetration and use.
Avec une «population d’internautes en hausse de 5 % sur un an», la «barre des 60% de Français de 11 ans et plus se connectant au moins une fois par mois a été franchie à l’été 2008». With a population of Internet users, up 5% over a year “, the” over 60% of French people aged 11 and over logging at least once per month was reached in the summer of 2008. Sans compter que «l’activité des internautes ne s’arrête pas à la consommation, elle s’étend désormais à la production et à la redistribution de contenus.» Not counting that “the Internet does not stop for consumption, it now extends to the production and distribution of content.”

Constat 12. Finding 12. Le smartphone possède un potentiel de bouleversement complet de la consommation de médias. The smartphone has a potential to complete upheaval in the consumption of media.
L’apparition des Blackberry et autres iPhones a un impact sur la lecture des médias. The advent of Blackberries and other iPhones has an impact on playing media. «Le choc Internet du mobile peut rivaliser en impact avec celui connu sur le PC, d’autant plus que la pénétration du téléphone mobile a beau rester faible en France (83%), elle l’emporte largement sur celle d’Internet.» “The impact of mobile Internet can compete with the known impact on the PC, especially as the mobile phone penetration has beautiful remain low in France (83%), it outweighs the Internet.”

Constat 13. Finding 13. La recette publicitaire tirée d’un visiteur unique est vingt fois moindre que celle d’un lecteur. The advertising revenue from a single visitor is twenty times less than that of a player.
«Le revenu publicitaire fourni chaque année par un visiteur unique mensuel (sur un site Web, ndlr) varie de 1 à 3 euros, contre 20 à 60 euros pour un lecteur de presse écrite.» “The advertising income provided annually by unique visitors monthly (on a website editor’s note) varies from 1 to 3 euros, against 20 to 60 euros for a reader of newspapers.”

Constat 14. Finding 14. Google est au cœur des sessions sur Internet et sa vente de publicité en tire parti. Google is at the heart of sessions on the Internet and its sale of advertising exploits.
Comprendre: Google est un mastodonte. Understand: Google is a mastodon. «85% des sessions sur Internet incluent en France l’utilisation du moteur de recherche Google. “85% of sessions on the Internet in France include the use of search engine Google. (…) Ce qui permet à Google de capter 90% de la valeur dans la publicité à ciblage contextuel. (…) This allows Google to capture 90% of the value in advertising to contextual targeting. Une position dominante s’est créé dans les usages et n’est pas contestée sur le marché.» A dominant position was created in the uses and is not contested on the market. “

So mobile is where you need to be in France.

The last point is not a surprise given the French media’s attitude to Google. But Alain expresses some surprise in his response.

un, très humblement, je me demande pourquoi il a été nécessaire de réunir des Etats généraux pour constater ce que tout le monde sait;

Basically. “No, shit and why did we need a report to tell us this”. (my translation)and though the report gives some interesting figures,  I agree

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A very neat timeline of International Journalism: media freedom around the world from the journalism.co.uk team.

Definitely worth a look.

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These are my links for November 12th through December 16th:

• GOOD Magazine - Cracking content and, by the look of it, a wordpress install. V. nice
• Question of the week: Do local newspapers need state aid? - “IIn the current climate particularly the government should keep advertising and insist that local government continues to use local papers for planning applications and other public notices because there is a public interest in maintaining viable local and national media.” We don’t want aid we just want your money
• Can B2B magazine brands survive? « These Digital Times - “Even the names of the titles, particuarly some of the smaller ones, help since they often mirror key search phrases - Service Management, Security Management, Publican, Building.” Great point. via Adam Tinworth
• Money makes Video go round - Das fliegende Auge - Weblogs - DerWesten - Markus.Huendgen asks what the best model to fund online video is. By his reckoning they are loosing 300 euros on each video based on a CPM model to pay. So what do you do? Sponsorship? What happens when you have to write something bad about them?
• Journalistopia » 25+ of Danny’s Favorite Multimedia Tools - Loads of good stuff to play with here.
• Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2008 - ReadWriteWeb - Plenty of stuff to play with over christmas along with links to other top tens
• Save B2B Publishing By Loving People - One Man and His Blog - “We need to shift the balance from topic first, person second, to person first and topic second in every element of our publishing process. Until we do that, I don’t think we’ll every escape the trap of sprinkling a wee bit of magic community dust on fundamentally Web 1.0 offerings and wondering why we struggle. ” Amen.
• Pew Internet: Future of the Internet - “The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.” And we’ll all be eating our meals as pills. Some interesting tidbits to whet your appetite for reading the whole report - well, maybe not that last one
• What your news organization can learn from the Crunchberry project - Invisible Inkling - Ryan’s take on the Newsmixer/crunchberry project. I agree that this should be a model that is explored further
• Socialreporter | Reflections on social reporting an event - Interesting stuff with a nice link to VideoBoo and associated software which I had never seen before. Thanks to Craig McGinty
• New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit | Old Media, New Tricks - “sharing links with a human touch. It makes all the difference. Twitter is free. All you’re spending by doing it the right way is work hours. Do it — you’ll like the results.”
• The glittering allure of the mobile society | SMLXL - The glittering allure of anything to do with mobiles
• Strobist: Cheap, Soft, 360-Degree Light - A nice idea wich appeals to my heath robinson side
• Goodbye hyperlocal, hello microlocal | Holovaty.com - Interesting idea
• Making Documentary Videos: The Interview - A neat article on how to do a video interview. Try it and then break the rules
• Imprisoning journalists continues, especially online :: Demotix - Worrying news and, excuse the pithy connection, proof in any were needed that blogging is journalism
• Explaining Twitter to journalists | yelvington.com - A good go at describing twitter for journalists
• techvideoblog.com » Blog Archive » Online video sites HD quality comparison - A comparison of HD formats and quality - useful stuff
• HOW TO: Use Google Reader Like A Rockstar - A neat round up of Google Reader tips post the facelift
• Emily Bell: Kangaroo should not have been jumped on so soon | Media | The Guardian - Sensible stuff from Emily. I agree with her line. Ipalyer and Itunes have set the benchmark and a number or people have benefited from the development. So why kill something that will drive the industry fowrward in the same way?
• BNP Membership List Published: Analysis of Legal Position for Blogs | The Wardman Wire - An interesting take on the story de jour
• The Conversation Prism - Very nice diagram showing the different web platforms
• Twitter to journalists: Here’s how it’s done — Eat Sleep Publish - Comment and a nice collection of journalism related twitter goodness
• It’s Official: Pure Digital Launches the Flip Mino HD « NewTeeVee - And I just bought a flip . ARRRRRG.

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