generation game Social media for journalists is like The Generation game [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)http://youtu.be/EO0c03Y5Bjg This week (as a earlier post suggests) I’ve been kicking off teaching with a look at social media and how journos can use
facebook Pages of pages: Journalists and (self)promotion [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/38845206@N03/7420240204)Shouting about
@jonathanhaynes News sites should be Islands in the stream [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)> Islands in the stream > That is what we are > No one in-between > How can we be wrong Dolly Parton! Well, actually the BeeGees (well if we are being
Taxing community engagement and other thoughts from the BBC's connecting communities conf. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I spent the day at sunny media city in Salford for the [BBC College of Journalism’s connecting communities conference](http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/blog/2012/
Journalism is not shorthand for defunct thinking. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I spent the last two days [in a room with lots of arts and humanities academic](http://thecreativeexchange.org/)s at the Creative Exchange, talking about the digital
journalism Journalism is not a profession, it's a diagnosis. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [](https://i0.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/
What kind of person is journalism? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[ ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/unloveable/2398625902/ "Guess Who? by unloveablesteve, on
Intelligent design or natural selection - Three little pigs and the church of open journalism [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)***Is the new Guardian view of journalism really what people want*** ***?*** The Guardian’s Three little pigs ad campaign is getting a lot of press at the moment.
arab spring The responsibilities of the journalist in the internet age. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)**This the text from my lecture to the undergrad and post grad journalism students for their Ethics module this week. It’s slightly amended to:** **make sense ** stop
In praise of Digital Editors [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Sitting on a goldmine? (picture from Flickr)I’m
BBC Ivory tower dispatch: A tale of two websites [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Across a number of classes this week, two websites have stood out. To start the week I had this from China Daily.com Shoddy! Which thesaurus did they
regulation Suns warning to regulators... [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Sitting through a talk on the regulation of the press and
Don't charge for the magazine charge for the ink! [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)> “Our work with Condé Nast creates a new channel for customers to access the content they want from some of their favorite publications,” said Stephen Nigro, senior vice
j-school Ivory tower dispatch: RSS is like twitter. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Like others in J-school I’m getting to know new classes, spending a bit of time talking about the ‘gathering’ part of journalism and how digital tools can
Fleetstreetblues Do we need a journalism merit badge? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) So Ivan Lewis has suggested that journalists who ‘break the rules’ should be struck off. A move which, as FleetStreetBlues blogs: ..by implication, that there should be some
data journalism Fusion tables and maps: Post office map revisited [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)A few years ago I wrote a post about *[mapping post office closures using google maps and yahoo pipes](http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/02/29/maps-spreadsheets-yahoo-pipes-and-post-offices/)*. I
awards Daily mail student media awards? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Yeah, wouldn’t happen. But should it? The always interesting Wannabehacks posted yesterday stating that The industry isn’t doing enough to support student journalists. The post really
FT Newspaper video: Time to reconsider your video strategy? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)A few issues have popped up in my reading round the web that make me think that **if online video has fallen off your agenda then it may
Visible not critical: What next journalism? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I read a few interesting posts over the last few days. The first was [I’m Glad We Didn’t Have Facebook or Twitter on 9/11](http:
BBC BBC Social media guidelines updated. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)The [BBC editors site](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/07/bbc_social_media_guidance.html) has a post on the update to the [BBC’s
NCE: training the lowest common denominator? [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Right, [this press gazette article](http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=47752&c=1) then. Editors involved in a review of the National Council
@newsmary Twitter: the emergency broadcast system and the journalist [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)As you may imagine [after yesterdays post](http://www.andydickinson.net/2011/08/09/mea-culpa-no-news-is-news-on-twitter/), I’ve given a lot of thought to how journalists use twitter. Id
Mea Culpa: No news is news on twitter [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)I spent a lot of time watching twitter last night. Watching the dynamics of tweets about the riots – the reports, the reaction and the rumours. I retweeted a
WPHMI: Help me investigate for wordpress [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[](http://www.andydickinson.net/wphmi-help-me-investigate-for-wordpress/)WPHMI - Help me investigate for
Community journalism or "Local nosey parkers with mobile phones " [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! What’s that Andy? It’s me banging my head against the desk… There’s a story about the Beskpoke project on Hold
