Dublin Core Metadata Initiative talks semantics at conference

This year’s International Conference for Dublin Core and Metadata Applications aims to explore the Semantic Web

How to build a blog network – ask TPM Media

The political blogging network, TPM Media is an intriguing organisation. With their wealth of influence in the sphere of US politics – with even Barack Obama’s staffers regularly reading TalkingPointsMedia’s posts – they now have a wealth of funding to keep them in blog business.
It was reported today that web pioneer Marc Andreessen has supplied funding for [...]

High five to Hulu and the power of on demand choice

As online streaming becomes big broadcasting business, how will television viewing change?
Hulu wins handsdown when it comes to video streaming. Forget Youtube – this is the biggest media breakthrough since Twitter asked ‘What are you doing?’. It’s had more than 40 million unique viewers visit its treasure trove of TV in April alone, which is [...]

Will good journalism be the first casualty of the digital revolution in the media?

Digital technology has forced the media industry to change. With the rise of the web, the role of journalist as editorial gatekeeper has disappeared. As Professor Ian Hargreaves, Director of Communications for the Foreign Office, commented in his book, Journalism: Truth or Dare?, “Journalists worry about the effects of new media technologies….something that may even [...]

#skittles: Taste the Twitter, Interweb the rainbow

Skittles forget tasting the rainbow and simply have a taste of Twitter success.
I must admit, I was slightly confused on Twitter today. And it took me a while to catch on. The #skittles hashtag kept appearing everywhere. I assumed there had been a revival of the old pub classic game: skittles. I’d even considered ringing [...]

Celebrity magazine brands: Jamie Oliver and Rio Ferdinand. Who's next?

 First it was Jamie Oliver who decided to give it a go. And now Rio Ferdinand has decided that he will too.
The world of celebrity branding has reached a whole new level.
The digital magazine, Rio – developed by the publisher Made-Up Media – aims to “give a snapshot of the world that Rio inhabits and will [...]

Capturing Cardiff: The Cardiff Players

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Defying the final curtain call: the Cardiff Players are an amateur dramatics group with high hopes despite a diminishing audience base.
 

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The Cardiff Players are getting ready for tonight’s performance in the dressing room. The walls of which are plastered with the [...]

Twitter: From Britney to the Israel Consulate and back to the audience

Twitter made headlines this week when it was reported that Britney Spears’s Twitter account had been hacked. (Britney’s spokesperson reiterated she did not have any such case of vagina dentata). The Archbishop of Canterbury, Barack Obama and Britney Spears’s Twitter accounts have all been hacked. Twitter is getting a reputation for being unreliable.
This is of interest when considering the use of [...]

Swallow your pride and link: Link economy in journalism

“Swallow your pride and link,” said Rick Waghorn of My Football Writer.
We all know the new generation of journalists have to operate on a multitude of multi-media platforms; which is why even us magazine journalists have been learning how to shoot videos, make podcasts, Twitter and maintain a blog.
Yet, in our Online and Mobile Media [...]

NUJ: Web 2.0 is rubbish (Dogbook and the evil baby)

We were all getting a little tired of the Web 2.0 buzzwords being drummed into us.
Social media. Change. Conversation. Democracy. Blogs. Networking.
So, it was a nice surprise for the Telegraph’s Communities Editor, Shane Richmond to give us a different point of view in this week’s Online and Mobile Media lecture.
Most interestingly, he mentioned the NUJ and [...]