When good bloggers go bad

Stephen Glover’s article at Mail Online today  almost makes an interesting point.  Almost.
He’s talking about Robert Peston and the old ‘when does the reporter become the story’ chestnut. It’s a complaint about the recent Panorama, which pledged to investigate whether Peston had too much power where the Northern Rock/banking crisis was concerned, but was  in [...]

A quick thought about story comments

Anyone who follows me on Twitter (or who’s read this post) will know that story comments and the negative atmosphere they can create has exercised me recently.
But here’s a quick thought. Maybe the ‘quick to criticise’ aspect isn’t so bad after all. Frustrating, yes, but also a challenge.
Take this, for example.  I like this story: [...]

Publish 2.0

Thanks to this post by Scott Karp I’ve been investigating the possibilities of Publish2 as an aggregator.
I’ve been saying for a while that we shouldn’t be afraid to link to other sites (the Rick Waghorn/Jeff Jarvis argument) – whatever the answer to the news crisis is (and if you work for Newsquest things look pretty [...]

The news hub – are we even a spoke?

I’ve spent some time this afternoon looking at our web traffic for this week, mainly because our unique user numbers have quadrupled thanks to Laplandgate.
It’s always interesting to see the kind of links people follow to get to us – and, I think, important in terms of working out which networks we should be part [...]

Comments or no comments?

I’ve been quite busy of late and haven’t found the time to blog – which means that what I intended to say in the post has shifted slightly.
One of the things I’ve been focusing on at the Echo is ways on interacting with our online audience more effectively. I’ll be blogging about it later [...]