Onswine journalism

A potential global epidemic like swine flu is another time online journalism begins to shine.

“…was just saying Jehovah”

I honestly thought this was a joke when I first read it in the print edition of the Sunday Tribune Sunday just gone. I was content to read the arts after the very satisfying bias that is the Tribune’s love for Leinster rugby and found that Dermot Ahern was planning to introduce a blasphemy section into the defamation bill.

Collective Knowledge

Forums are the new democracy. Anything can be discussed openly, in a frank and concise manner. I am of course joking. This is the idea behind forums. Open conversation about any and all topics. This is rarely, if ever, the case.

Dear blog, don’t kill me. Love, news

I’ve skirted around this a few times, but now I’m putting it down(or up since it’s being uploaded…hmmm…maybe you put ideas up rather than down now…never mind) for good. Citizen blogging will not kill the newspaper, or the news organisation, or anything quite so established. This is for the very simple reason that blogging and journalism occupy two different spheres of interest

“I wasn’t trying to capture nuthin’, I was just ripping off the Pixies”

My own opinion on the whole thing aside, Zeitgeist and its sister Addendum have captured the attention of the online world, and they are further indication of the power of the online journalist.

News team; assemble to form SUPER NEWS.

Convergence of media in a news sense is the best way forward for a body that constantly seems to be trying to hold onto the past. If journalism really is the fourth estate, then it needs to consolidate its power by constantly staying ahead of the other three.

Lend me your ears, but nothing else.

In a post originally made on IRjournalist, the question of how much interactivity is too much is raised. Much like the original blogger, I seriously doubted that could ever be too much interactivity, as it is merely a form of ultimate accountability. This is not the case though, because if you allow comment without moderation of any kind you allow comment without consideration.

News in 140 characters

Almost every journalistic blog I’ve found has something on it about twitter, occasionally with an air of weary ‘I guess I have to’ diligence. Thankfully, this entry on Sean Vs Journalism is free from any such snobbery, and looks at the origins and power of constant 140 character updates.

Hyper-local journalism

This is a response to a blog initially made by Stephen Mangan. His initial post can be found here.

Cultúr, only everywhere

Mass connectivity will be the internets’ legacy. It was the revolution that brought everybody together, or at least had the ability to. As I said in an earlier post, one of the best aspects of this is entertainment. Entertainment, at its source, is a method of furthering culture, and the internet is more than happy to oblige in this respect. The knowledge needed to understand foreign cultures(or at least try to) is closer than ever before. This is shown very easily in an Irish context(chosen purely because it’s the only culture I have an understanding of without help from the internet).