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Published and be read
Journalism.co.uk has an interesting story up about this man, Michalis Pantelouris, a freelance journalist who had that very familiar problem of knowing he had a good story on his hands, but wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. So he crowdsourced his article about a German singer’s death in Athens, publishing 110 pages of…
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Feature up at The Ecologist
Small plug for my feature to be published on The Ecologist. A subject I hope to return to soon, as it’s a really fascinating movement that seems to be expanding by the day.
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Free training course at the cij
I can’t bang on enough about how good the Centre for Investigative Journalism‘s summer school was, and how much it’s helped to focus my own feelings about my career. So it’s rather excellent news that they’re holding a one-off, free class on the evening of October 13th on the subject ‘How to read public accounts’.…
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Egretlist for Evernote
I’m a big fan of Evernote. It’s a cloud note app which syncs an infinite number of notebooks across every PC and phone I own, and works on Mac, iPhone, Windows and – importantly – Linux. There are better ways of organising research for journalists, but none that I know of which synch so well…
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New host & email update
I moved to a new hosting provider yesterday as the contract with my old one had run out and they were ludicrously expensive for the service and bandwidth supplied. My new host – Baxter Media – came highly recommended by friends, and Dale there made the porting process as smooth as possible. There’s a few…
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I am AOE Media Ltd
I haven’t updated any contact details yet because I’m a bit snowed under at the moment, but I’ve finally got round to setting up a limited company for all my writing and multimedia work. It’s called AOE Media Ltd (for several reasons I’ll go into later) and has no official home as yet, although there…
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CIJ Summer School 2009
As anyone who follows my Twitter feed will know I spent the weekend at City University taking part in a Summer School at the Centre for Investigative Journalism. I’d recommend any aspiring writer or seasoned hack to go next year (I will be) – it’s not often you get the chance to rub shoulders with…
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Project Canvas will use multicast, but content providers to lose out
I’ve just got back from a very interesting presentation from Intel called ‘Screen Future: Shaping the future of TV’. It was a short session at the Millbank Tower with a small audience in which an impressive panel of people talked about what kind of entertainment we could expect on our Atom-powered smart TV’s of the…
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Doorstepping UK Music
This lunchtime’s flashmob organised by the Open Rights Group in protest against the Digital Economy Bill drew a crowd of about 35-40 people. By far the politest protest I’ve ever seen, they mostly milled around outside the headquarters of UK Music wearing policeman’s hats for an hour, dropped off a mocked up ‘disconnection notice’ and…
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Gone in a Flashmob
On my way to the Open Rights Group flashmob in Central London today. I’ve never been to a flashmob before. Should be fun.
