Cllr Grower and sockpuppeting; we can see your email address, you know

Well I couldn’t go home today without writing something about this.
Views range from the absolutely-we-did-the-right-thing to the lazy-story-he’s-got-a-right-to-privacy.
What do I think? From a management of the community we’re building perspective, I’d like to have seen him privately warned tp cease and desist before we named and shamed him.
But from a news perspective, I think it’s [...]

Newspapers on Twitter: is there any point?

I think there is. Forgive if this is going sound like trumpet-blowing, but this is why I think twitter is worth persevering with as more than an RSS feed.
One of our followers asked for suggestions as to where he should take his girlfriend for dinner.
This is what happened

PROS: The links are all links [...]

Nine resolutions for 2009

They’re a bit late. But here’s nine resolutions for 2009
This year I’m going to:
1. Integrate our burgeoning social media audience with our homepage.
Specifically this requires: persuading the powers that be to let us self-host http://bmthblog.wordpress.com, http://roundfortea.blogspot.com/ and a photography blog in the style of the Croydon Advers (hat tip Martin Stabe for pointing it out [...]

Suicide and the Press Complaints Commission (or why the web needs subs #3)

A quick thought about this adjudication:
Press Complaints Commission >> News.
The common thread seems to be that the online version of the story was unsubbed, unrefined PA copy.
Now there *may* be an argument that it was an automated feed, although I think it’s unlikely.
But no editor would let untouched copy in their paper, so why [...]

Links for 1/1/09

Because she’s said it much better than I could!:
Headlines and Deadlines: New Year Revolutions.