FAQ: What is the difference between monetising content and monetising audience? (etc.)
Another set of questions from a student which I am answering in public: 1) What is the difference between monetising content and monetising audience? What a great question. Monetising content means selling content or, more often, a container of content. S

Clay Shirky on Twitter and the social media revolution
Here’s a great interview with Clay Shirky by GRITtv’s Laura Flanders.

Online journalism lesson #7: maps
Here’s the 7th lesson from my year 2 undergraduate module in Online Journalism, where I look at a range of examples of mapping in journalism, as well as the broader idea of image maps (the rest of the series can be found here):

Local Blog impact on Local Democracy: Somerton Town Council
Local Bloggers are beginning to produce a few good examples of effective scrutiny of Local Councils. In this piece David Keen, who is a Vicar in Yeovil and writes regularly for my

Five factors that foster innovation in the online newsroom
I recently heard a newspaper chief editor say something quite shocking. I attended a meeting arranged by the Norwegian consortium New Media Network where the chief editor of the second biggest national tabloid in Norway,