• Paradigm Shift: News is Community « Just Another Meme Vector
  “news●pa●per (noun) (pl. -a●pers): a community website, with articles as the objects people interact around.”
  (tags: community journalism newspapers)
• NAM News Network – an alternative to Western news orgs?
  “The NNN sees itself as an alternative source of information rather than being in competition with other major news services. Essentially it would serve as a conduit for NAM member countries to tell their story…”
  (tags: journalism,)

…in case you were wondering why everything had gone quiet.

My Grandad is ace and he also, occasionally, checks up on my blog (these two things are not related).

Yesterday he asked me what the etymology of the word geek was.

So, Grandad (if you’re reading) and anyone else that might be interested:

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it isn’t an acronym but a word derived from the word geck, meaining ‘fool’.

Wikipedia also seems to suggest the word may have originally pertained to a carnival performer “often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat, snake or bugs”. Nice.

The word has, however, taken on a more positive meaning in recent years where it denotes an individual with an intense interest in a (usually) technical field.

And yes, I probably am a geek.

• How The Boston Globe Could Improve Their Website | chrisbrogan.com
  This is the Internet’s version of “If a tree falls.” According to my log traffic, the Boston Globe is less impacting of my blog than Twitter.
  (tags: linking, journalism,)
• Straight-to-Web video camcorder is easy to use – CNN.com
  The Flip Video Mino is the fourth generation of Pure Digital’s popular straight-to-Web mini camcorder, designed to make shooting and sharing low-resolution videos very easy.
  (tags: video, webcam)
• YouTube – What Do You Reckon? – That Mitchell and Webb Look – BBC Two
  (tags: crowdsourcing)
• YouTube – Paxman promotes User Generated Content
  (tags: crowdsourcing funny ugc)

• Recovering Journalist: Death of Almost 1,000 Cuts
  “Total: Roughly 900 jobs eliminated just this week (and the week ain’t over). As Simon Dumenco wrote in Advertising Age, reading Romenesko these days is like “reading the obits.”"
  (tags: newspapers journalism)

• DesMoinesRegister.com | Parkersburg Tornado: the Aftermath | The Des Moines Register
  Now THAT’s an interactive map!
  (tags: journalism mashup mapping multimedia maps)

• Robert Scoble – FriendFeed
  “We are in the National Press Club where a ton of the most famous newspaper front pages are on the walls. I turned to my 14-year-old son and said “just think, in your lifetime you will see the death of newspapers. He answered: “yeah.””
  (tags: newspapers)
• Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should’ve Built
  Twellow is a great new search tool and directory for discovering Twitter users that could fundamentally change the way people use the microblogging service.
  (tags: twitter,)
• @Future of Journalism: Jeff Jarvis on 10 questions we should be asking now | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
  Jeff Jarvis, professor of journalism at City University New York, BuzzMachine blogger and MediaGuardian contributor sums up the 10 questions that news organisations in general, and the Guardian in particular, should be asking now.
  (tags: innovation journalism newspapers future)

• An adoption strategy for social software in enterprise. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
  There are two ways to go about encouraging adoption of social software: fostering grassroots behaviours which develop organically from the bottom-up; or via top-down instruction. In general, the former is more desirable…
  (tags: blogging innovation training)
• Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond

• Journalism.co.uk :: ‘Pay-per-view’ is future of online journalism, says Andrew Keen
  ‘Pay-per-page view’ is the future of journalism, Andrew Keen, journalist and Cult of the Amateur author, told an industry conference today.
  (tags: journalism, business,)

When I decided to post about my impending job interview, I would not have guessed I would get the response that I did. I have received some fantastic feedback. I am lucky indeed.

So, to continue the thread, this is a version of the presentation I’m going to give today (edited to remove commercially sensitive info and stuff that might get me sacked).

Yes, I know it’s a pretty cruddy Powerpoint… perhaps I should have added presentation skills to my training list.

The interview is not until 15:30 GMT, so if I’ve mucked up please let me know – I might still have time to change it!