Webby honoree. Congrats to Stef of 3form, Audiences Central and Jon Bounds.
Author: Nick Booth
Gapingvoid quote on being a blogger:
From here:
“The best thing about being a blogger is the people you get to meet.” I have found this to be true and self-evident. When I was younger, the people who inspired me the most professionally were famous, dead, or both. Since I become a blogger the people who inspired me the most became good friends of mine. We hung out. We drunk beer. We ate pizza. It wasn’t a big deal, it was just… lovely. Back in 2004, my blogging buddies and I knew we were onto a good thing. Something powerful and creative and earth-changing. But that’s not the main reason we liked it. We liked it because we enjoyed it, because it was interesting, because of the smart, passionate, fun people we were starting to hang out with.
A decade from now, maybe blogs as we know them won’t even exist. Maybe they’ll call them something else. Do I care? Not really. What matters, like Loic (my link)and I talked about, is the people you get to meet. That’s where the magic lies. Ten years from now, these people will still be around, geeking out on the internet at the latest WHATEVER that’s coming down the pike. They’re not going anywhere, and Thank God for that.
Oddly enough my twittercloud got me thinking about the people I enjoy talking to and how far that is at the root of friendship.
Truth in journalism.
If I spent an hour on a story I would end up with a ‘truth’ that represented 60 minutes of effort. A week of effort would yield a 7 days of ‘truth’. What the facts mean is always subjective, regardless of the solidity of those facts.
Good journalism chases honesty, not truth. Honesty is a state of mind and a process. It involves openly sharing the facts you have found and the process you use to find them. It gives your audience the information they need to decide their truth. Honest journalism is easier today than at any moment I have known from nearly 30 years in the trade.
So do it. Now. No excuse.
Monday Mentions. April 7th 2008
A week of links is a long time, but I’m behind by four whole weeks. There were about 60 outstanding, but they’ve settled down to this lot. I’m rather old fashioned in doing this manually
Journalism:
Richard Sambrook on the 4 types of citizen journalism and also tells us that ‘control doesn’t scale’. I’m still (happily) thinking about that.
Charlie Beckett on the maturing revolution in journalism: “mainstream and citizen media are increasingly mixing and working together”
Tom Scotney is turned off.
Government:
David Price teaches me the term “lightweight web”. Thanks!
Other Media:
Nesta encourages film to go digital (with £££).
Potentially juicy job at ScreenWM (closes 24 April 2008)
If Charles Dunstone is king does that make the BPI Cnuts?
Web:
Services not sites.
Generosity and shutting up.
Cory on 17 ways to lure bloggers.
The Observer on the fact that the web isn’t fat enough. This bit boggled me noddle:
An ‘exabyte’ is 1.074 billion gigabytes. Two exabytes equal the total volume of information generated in 1999. The internet currently handles one exabyte of data every hour.
Locals:
Dubber – ‘…cos every little thing is gonna be alright’.
Charlotte on why mums currently socially network online not off.
Aeioux on enterprise.
Neighbourhoods:
Streetsize -social networking for your neighbourhood.
Upside down
The big picture but littler.<!–
Learning:
The School of Everything gets more. Yay.
Pleasure:
Russell Davies no T.
Other stuff:
Charlotte Green made me laugh.
Blimey and coo and thank you.