Here isa lost of things that have caught my eye over the last week or so:
- Digital Diversity: bloggers and polymaths « Running, jumping, climbing trees… – Peter Moor offers his “five attributes that I think an ambitious blogger would do well to have”
- MediaPost Publications Moving From Interruption To Involvement 03/11/2009 – More video marketing guidence but the key thing is interaction not intervention.
- Newspaper sites: don’t read or link to us … » malcolm coles – Signs of why the openness at the Guardian causes so much of a stir in the journalism industry.
- Now the media should just do it – Outside Left – “The media are getting a bad press at the moment and with some justification. The periodic vilification of social workers and the demonising of young people are now coming under increasing criticism from us journalists.” Stand up for social work.
- Google Maps Mania – Get your google maps fix here.
- Will Video for Food » The 7 Things Every Marketer Should Know About Online Video – You could say this is a marketing orientated take but solid advice including a useful mantra “Find Existing Crowds, Don’t Try Gathering Them.”
- YouTube to block music videos for UK users | Technology | Reuters – Put this next to the Hulu news this week and you can start to see the impact of the big guns waking up/resigning themselves to online delivery platforms and flexing their legal muscles as they do so.
- If you’re still thinking about charging for online news in 2009, you’re dead already (a primer) – Can’t add much more to that title. Good stuff from Paul Bradshaw
- UK.gov thinks internet should be run like BSkyB • The Register – One of the dumbest ideas I came across last week
- French Online Video Audience Grows 16 Percent in the Past Year to 27 Million Viewers in January – “Driven by the popularity of YouTube.com (which accounted for 97 percent of all videos viewed on the property), Google Sites grew 25 percent versus year ago to further solidify its position as the leading online video viewing property in France, attracting 15.2 million viewers in January 2009.”
- Hulu Now No. 2 Online-Video Site, Behind YouTube – As a “big player” venture this will, no doubt, hearten many broadcasters. But the content has to match the platform which it obviously does in this case. This should be more of lesson to those broadcasters cutting back on production and looking to online delivery (cough…ITV..cough)
- David MacLean: Journalist – Consummate examples of combative posting from Dave. Five things I hate about bloggers, Three reasons why Twitter is useless to me as a journalist are just two great posts to have a go at.
- Wellcome-images – Lots of great images and CC goodness from the Wellcome Trust
- All your TweetDeck questions answered – Richard Barley has put together a great FAQ for this popular twitter client