Statistics on internet and social media use: why email is doomed

According to this video presentation by Jesse Thomas, eighty-one percent of email is spam. But if you view the rest of the statistics, you can see how email is becoming rapidly irrelevant as a key communications – and publishing – tool. JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. Hat tip: @adders Similar [...]

US Digest: McSweeney?s Quarterly Concern; Newsweek?s yearly results; Winnipeg?s bright future

Starting this week, the editor?s blog will feature an afternoon roundup of all things media from over the pond. From the hugely important to the very inconsequential, check in for a choice of America?s journalistic goings on. A glimpse of a perfect media world To the Chicago Tribune first today for a heartwarming paean to Dave Eggers [...]

Copenhagen Post: Danish newspaper apologises for reprinting Mohammed cartoons

A Danish newspaper which reprinted the 2005 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in an act of solidarity following a murder plot against one of the cartoonists in 2008 has issued an apology to eight Muslim organisations to stave off future legal action against the paper. Politiken was one of 11 Danish newspapers to reprint the cartoons, [...]

The Guardian?s gnews140 show ? going a twit too far?

Journalism.co.uk loves Twitter as our multiple Twitter accounts will testify. But we’re just not sure about gnews140, the Guardian’ s video show wrapping up the big news stories on Twitter from the past week. While it’s definitely tongue-in-cheek, is it Twitter overkill? Make your own minds up here – http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/feb/26/twitter-gnews140 Similar Posts: US elections: CNN’s ‘magic map’ gets [...]

British Journal of Photography relaunches as monthly mag

The British Journal of Photography has relaunched its print magazine with a return to a monthly format from 3 March. The 156-year-old title was originally launched as a monthly in 1854. It will now feature two new sections: “‘Projects’, which showcases new photographic series of work; and ‘Intelligence’, devoted to opinion about new trends and issues.” The [...]

British Library?s UK web archive goes live

The British Library has opened the doors to its fascinating UK Web Archive project. The library has been collecting screenshots of websites since 2004for the archive, which will “observe the unfolding history of a specturm of UK activities represented online”. There are special collections already started for specific news events, such as the London bombings in [...]

Nieman Journalism Lab: Iceland?s journalism haven proposal passes first stage

Nieman Journalism Lab has some more details on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI) – and a link to a rough translation of the proposal for a collection of laws to ensure better protection of journalists’ sources and protect publishers against libel tourism. The IMMI proposal has passed its first discussion in parliament and will now [...]

Hannah Waldram: Innovations by journalism students online and Cardiff Courts Blog

Recent journalism graduate and now Guardian Local’s new Cardiff beatblogger Hannah Waldram provides a good round-up of new projects from journalism students, using online tools to start their own news sites and deal with course assignments. There are some interesting ideas from a regional and community news perspective here, particularly The Cardiff Courts Blog: University of [...]

Times Online: BBC to cut web pages by half?

The Times claims to have seen details of the strategic review of BBC services director-general Mark Thompson that recommends the closure of digital radio stations 6 Music and the Asian Network and a severe reduction in the size of its website. The report is due to go before the BBC Trust next month. The corporation’s web [...]

All Facebook: Facebook patents ?The News Feed?

According to All Facebook, the unofficial Facebook resource site, the social network has this week been awarded a patent for: “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network.” Essentially it includes the generation of feed stories followed by the limiting of viewers of those stories. As many avid followers of the social [...]

#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk ? sharing large files

Multimedia: divShare allows you to upload up to 5GB of audio, pdf files or video and embed them on a website or blog. Tipster: Laura Oliver.

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Oxbury Media: The 10,000 strong 'hyperlocal' agency

Richard Stone talks to Journalism.co.uk about targeting readers and advertisers from the bottom up