NEWS09 Presentation: How to get your student publication online
February 7, 2009
Welcome to students visiting from today’s NEWS09 conference. Please feel free to ask a question or leave a comment. Keep me posted if you decide to try out any of the ideas or tools that were mentioned today – I would love to hear how you get on.
As promised, here’s a copy of the presentation I gave today on How to get your student publication online.
Jobs go at Wired, Six Apart
November 12, 2008
So Wired just culled 25% of their staff (ouch) – mostly techies. Staff writers haven’t been touched apparently – they’ll just have to hold their website together with duct tape.
Meanwhile, SixApart – which sold blogging network LiveJournal earlier this year - has cut 8% of staff (16 people) and its management have taken a 15% pay cut.
I know that a lot more media and new media jobs will go… but there are ways to do it. And the way you treat your staff in a downturn says a lot. My hat’s off to the SA management for taking the pay cut.
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
November 9, 2008
It’s not often that I watch a longform video on YouTube (the first exception I made was for Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, which if you haven’t seen it is really worth it).
But this gave me a whole new appreciation of the YouTube community, and made me want to run away to Kansas to meet Michael Wesch and study Digital Ethnography.
