What is there to be said about my inclusion in Graham Holliday’s Who’s on your blogroll? feature in the current Press Gazette except that I am flattered? The list below comes from the blog of Martin Stabe who would have obviously been in the list if he had not just returned to the Press Gazette [...]
A link from the new blog of James Hatts who edits the London SE1 Community Website, drew me to visit his very local site. I had not seen it before and I loved the use of a Google map to pinpoint the stories in the area.
At last the Independent has done the decent thing and hidden its blogs. The link has gone from the front page in the past two or three days (I have got so bored with this I stopped checking every day).
The most recent post was dated January 18 but that was a revamp of a post [...]
Frank Barnako at Dow Jones Market Watch has published an interesting table of the number of visitors to blogs at the top US newspapers in December. It shows USA Today at the head of the list with 1.239m visitors. Second is the New York Times with 1.173m visitors. The blogs now account to 13% [...]
I thought for a few moments this morning that The Independent had put its blogs out of their misery. But no. While the big link has gone there is still a small text link towards the bottom of the third column.
There is nothing new to report there. The latest post is still the one on [...]
The Telegraph has pulled a post on the blog of its US editor, Toby Harnden, for, according to the Guardian, “legal reasons”. I look forward to the hearing before Mr Justice Cocklecarrot when he sums up:
This is an interesting case. It is accepted by all parties that telegraph.co.uk did indeed publish a report on [...]
One of the opportunities of the web is to rediscover really local news but I see little sign that it is happening despite all the talk of “citizen journalism” and “hyper-local news”. There are very good reasons, and some less good, why local coverage has changed in the past 40 or 50 years.
But it makes [...]
Number of days since there has been a new post on any of the Independent’s blogs: 18
Number of days since there has been a new post on any of the Independent’s blogs: 17
Number of days since there has been a new post on any of the Independent’s blogs: 16
Thanks to Craig McGinty for pointing out that the updating of blogs is almost as slow at France 24. My five tests for a newspaper blog apply equally to those of broadcasters.
