DISQUS

Yup, agreed. THE USE OF BLOCK CAPITALS and multiple tweets repeated with basically the same message mean this service needs some reworking especially in the light of this - http://www.bnonews.com/press/

That's not to say it isn't a great service, they just need to invoke some old fashioned editorial control, standards and rigour. I've lost count of how many almost-but-quite tsunami warnings the service has pumped out.

One trick they miss - and perhaps this is on purpose - is not linking out to their sources.

But this is more fun - http://twitter.com/themediaisdying

Not sure how useful this might be, but I feed a bunch of 'social media for journalists' related training links into this tumblr,

http://noodlepie.tumblr.com/

Maybe nothing you haven't come across in other areas, but thought I'd throw it your way.

Pah... Flickr users may not be able to take good snaps, but they can at least figure out a way to take snaps

http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=%22Gourmet+San...

http://flickr.com/photos/sichi/2580708769/in/ph...

And... tomorrow night's event will be streamed live here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/frontline-club

You can even embed the live stream in this here blog :) See you there...

media moghul, I told you.

Amazing... 8 minutes or more and he doesn't actually say anything, but he scared the life out of me.

Very interesting follow up here.

"If you are going to blog publically, you need to be ready to accept public criticism."

This is the problem. I think all journalists and definitely wannabes have to grasp this as a fundamental given regardless of where they publish.

However, in the wider blogosphere - even with some very experienced and popular bloggers - the same problem occurs. See this discussion. Find the comments by the very popular blogger Elise,

http://www.noodlepie.com/2007/02/what_are_the_w...

For many bloggers, there is a fundamental clash of what is and is not allowed to be criticised. The old school, pre-blog approach, which I hold to, is if it's in the pulic domain, it's fair game. The thing is the public domain is so much bigger now by a factor of a gazillion and so many people are putting themselves into it possibly without really thinking of the possible consequences. Journalism students, more than any group I can think of, must understand this.

One slightly tangential thought here. One news story that is just begging to happen - but give it another 5 or 10 years or so -

"Teen sues parents over baby blog"

I wonder how many kids will resent their parents blogging their lives for them?

I'm amazed the Today programme or anyone is interested in this. Is it just me, or is this a total non story? This is one variant of a perennial blog thing that goes nowhere and rightly so.

"That encounter showed that some students fail to distinguish between blogs published in a professional capacity and the sort of semi-private stuff they do everyday on MySpace"

And this and Bobbie's experience is an object lesson for lecturers and students alike. There are two points here as you allude to in the comments Martin.

Firstly, there is no handbook for teaching blogging to journalism students. The only way to learn, as with journalism really, is to do. Situations like this are bound to occur. The fact that more experienced people like yourself are pointing out issues for the students can only be a good thing all round especially if incorporated and discussed back in the seminar room.

Apart from a few notable exceptions I would guess that the majority of journalism lecturers in the UK probably don't know much about blogs and how the whole social net thing meshes together and what that means for publishing. This will obviously have an impact on the quality of teaching.

This was most evidently the case with the Emerson/Johnson brouhaha. BTW - Did the Emerson lecturer ever respond to that?

Likewise (kinda) on the full feeds thing. It's something I'd forgotten about. This made me think again. I switched to full feeds, somehow broke my RSS in the process, but dunno why I didn't think to do it earlier.

One other point, it can take many, many hours for video uploaded to YouTube to pass through their censoring system. Sometimes 10 hours or so.

He's not too shoddy, is he? But, I wasn't allowed to include him. You got his spot, by a nose.

I'm no big fan of Digg either. I do like del.icio.us, which as you know allows you to network together with like minds. I also like stumbledupon which is a very interesting way of finding new stuff. Unlike diggers, stumblers are not abusive at all. Stumbledupon can send 20,000 + people your way, however they do not hang around very long and rarely interact with the site as far as I can tell.

I've looked at your Twitter Martin. Assuming you have all twitters fed through to your mobile phone and you have a fairly bog standard phone contract AND you have fairly limited memory on your phone, how long does it take for the SMS memory to fill up? Not very long I'm guessing. Mine filled within a day once without the BBC or any other newsfeeds. I blame Suw Charman, but I've since figured out how to turn her off. This is all useful stuff, but to be more useful there must be more intuitive ways of filtering the information.

It is fun and it does have potential. I think I'm right in saying the Sam Sethi/TechCrunch story 'broke' on Twitter

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubicgarden/321482...

However, the fact that Twitter updates sent via mobile are hellishly unreliable - at least from my French mobile - is rather annoying.

As for bombarding... I reckon Suw Charman is the most showered person on the planet. The girl can Twitter :)

At least his worked..... grumble, grumble....

Sorry to see things didn't work out for PG Martin. It's a sad loss. Hope you, Julie etc. are doing OK and manage to find an outlet for your talents elswhere.

I'm particularly gutted about the online PG which I think you really helped improve over the last year. Is there anyway PG online can be resurrected a la Rick Waghorn stylee?

I'll be in touch.