• Jon Sow calling Ch4 part of the capitalist conspiracy?! What is this?!
  This raises many interesting issues. Where is the context? How much can we take this video at face value? It says mainstream is unaccountable, but this is also. Heavily edited too. Also interesting that they have used a “trusted” mainstream news reporter is used to boost the rep of independant news.
  (tags: journalism, jon snow, video,)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | How games will change the world
  “More and more we’re finding that game mechanics, and game presentation, can make otherwise difficult or tedious tasks more palatable.”
  (tags: innovation gaming bbc)

• Charlie Beckett’s SuperMedia
  “Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane?
  No! It’s SuperMedia!”
  Networked Journalism
  (tags: journalism,)

• Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive New York Times announces Times Machine «
  In the Research and Development department they showed me:
  1. A prototype newspaper rack that could print out a custom version of the newspaper.
  (tags: innovation)
• Adobe – Acrobat Connect – Web Conferencing Software, Web Conferencing Solution
  Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ is the next generation of web conferencing software that enables individuals and small businesses to instantly communicate and collaborate through easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting rooms.
  (tags: innovation)
• Social Media Influence: Case study: the anatomy of a blog storm
  Today, activists, critics and watchdogs are using the latest social media tools to mobilise public opinion rapidly and keep the unsavoury discussion topic in the public eye for weeks.
  (tags: pr,)

• MELD Bookmarks
  Links related to the two-day MELD Pathfinder workshop in UCLAN, Preston
  (tags: meldpathfinder)
• Interesting and motivating stuff by andydickinson.net
  Games have started to seep in to journalism consciousness. A version of the Neverwinter nights has been used to train journalists and the games ideas that sprang from that project
  (tags: innovation, gaming)
• Wii.com
  News Channel, you can select the news article you want to read from an easy to navigate list of headlines. Stay up to date with the latest news in any genre, both domestically and internationally, at any time.
  (tags: innovation gaming)
• Persuasive Games – We design, build, and distribute electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism.
  We design, build, and distribute electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism.
  (tags: innovation gaming)

Back in the Preston Holiday Inn again. Here for the MELD thinktank which is looking at the future of journalism. Intensive stuff, but fascinating. I’ll try and write more on it soon.

• Created in Birmingham » Surface Unsigned
  Question: What happens when an organisation tries to control over how it is talked about in the blogosphere by force? Answer: PR carnage.
  (tags: PR, blogging)

• The Future of Newspapers. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
  As journalists, we can meet this challenge. We can compete. We always have. We have competed against other journalists for exclusive stories. If new technologies are disrupting our business, we just need to use them to do some disrupting of our own.
  (tags: journalism, newspapers, thefuture)
• Newspaper Next
  Making the Leap Beyond ‘Newspaper Companies,’ outlines a broad new vision for what newspaper companies must become if they are to survive in today’s heavily disrupted media landscape.
  (tags: thefuture, newspapers)

• Whither Twitter? – BusinessWeek
  This BusinessWeek.com slide show chronicles the Twitter saga up to now and offers a glimpse of some of the answers yielded by Baker’s experiment.
  (tags: twitter,)
• Why Twitter Matters
  on May 8-9, I looked to Twitter’s own community for help, asking the following questions:
  • Is Twitter a fad, a feature, or a growing giant?
  • How are businesses using Twitter?
  • What is Twitter worth?
  (tags: twitter,)
• Journalism.co.uk :: Live: first ever online broadcast of a UK newspaper’s editorial conference
  “The Liverpool Daily Post has today become the first newspaper in the UK to broadcast its afternoon editorial conference live on the web.”
  (and yes, I’m stupidly jealous!)
  (tags: journalism, innnovation)
• Twitter Traffic Explosion: Who’s behind it all?
  “the 25-44 year old segments have found more value in Twitter and started to ramp up usage.”
  (tags: twitter,)

• Journalism.co.uk :: Guardian mulling on guidelines for journalists participating in comment threads
  The Guardian is considering implementing guidelines for journalists participating in online comment threads, its head of digital has said.
  (tags: blogging)