How interactive maps are being used in today’s journalism Last week, Paul Lewis, a Guardian reporter, linked to a piece of collaborative journalism that he had been working on and had just been published. ‘There can be no better example of how digital technology can hold the state to account than this,’ he wrote on …
Category Archives: Social Media
The Decisive Moment – Flickr, the Royal Wedding and the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Night and Day The royal wedding and the execution of Osama Bin Laden are a good reminder of how far the news agenda can lurch in the space of a couple of days. On Friday and during the weekend, the run was all for images of expensive dresses, dashing Rolls Royces, cheering crowds and flapping …
Twitter art, Irkafirka and tweet #3125
Art, an octopus and social media Strange things happen in social media. Last night was stranger than normal. Yesterday morning I was using Twitter to complain about doing Excel spreadsheets at work. I felt, I said, like #afishoutofwater – or, I then wrote, exercising a Spanish idiom, ‘Como un pulpo en un garaje.’ – which …
The Internet: five years ago
2005: social media? About five years after its launch, last Sunday evening, You Tube announced that they are now receiving two billion hits per day. On their official blog they wrote: Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with …
Andrew Sparrow on Live Blogging the General Election
14,000 words per day It’s worth taking a moment to thank Andrew Sparrow for locking himself up in the Guardian’s offices for the last month and producing a great live blog of the General Election campaign and the eventual change of government. He’s written an interesting piece on the practicalities of live blogging and how …
The General Election 2010. Ha ha ha.
Image credit: My David Cameron How to laugh at a politician On election morning I thought it’d be a good idea to look back at the last few months’ online political satire. I’m not sure that it has been quite the digital election that I was anticipating, with TV being, if anything, the defining medium, …