Concerned optimism among online journalists

I’m not very surprised: “Journalists who work online are more optimistic about the future of their profession than are news people tied to more traditional media platforms”, according to a new report from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism A few more findings: These online news people also believe that the Internet is changing … Continue reading →

Standing out in the blogosphere – according to Belgian blogging star

Clo Willaerts has figured it out and she is funny! I saw her yesterday at the launch of Think About It – the European blogging competition organized by European Journalism Centre. I hope some of the aspiring political bloggers I met yesterday will follow her suggestions, then we can expect some really colourful blogs about … Continue reading →

Blogging competition

European Journalism Centre has launched a blogging competition, “Think About It”. The goal is to  get Europeans to THINK ABOUT IT and to express their views on Europe through an online blogging competition. More info here.

Time for gin, elves and press freedom – according to Mugabe

Let’s start the day with some well-written stories: Fantastic article about “the architecture of participation” or how we find time to produce Wikipedia articles – but also about gin, sitcomes and grown men sitting in their basement pretending to be elves. (Via Welcome to the Revolution and Tversover). Do you think Robert Mugabe has heard … Continue reading →