News

News
powered by feedangel

10 July 2008
Future on the line for regionals
Regional papers are turning to the net for their future revenue streams, as they haemorrhage advertisers from their print editions amid growing economic uncertainty.

7 July 2008
Mobile journalists to share desks
Mobile journalists, or mojos, face losing their desks as newspapers look to take advantage of mobile technologies, such as laptops and WiFi, to cut down on office real estate.

3 July 2008
Regional star does four million impressions
The web offering of Britain's biggest-selling regional evening newspaper, the Express & Star, has reached a new milestone by breaking through the four million barrier for monthly page impressions.

30 June 2008
Journalists should take blogging seriously
Too few journalists treat blogging seriously and are failing to grasp the truth that the blogging revolution is threatening the established order of journalism, according to Guardian media commentator, Roy Greenslade.

26 June 2008
BBC wants Ł800,000 local video kitty
The BBC has unveiled plans for an £800,000 fund to source local video content from outside the organisation, as part of a £68 million investment in its local network.

23 June 2008
Mail posts first-class online figures
Mail Online has leapfrogged Telegraph.co.uk to become the most popular online national newspaper, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic (ABCe) statistics.

Archive...

17 December 2007

Weblogs celebrate tenth birthday

It’s a case of Balderdash & Piffle as the word weblog celebrates a landmark of ten years since it was first coined in December 1997.

Little was known of the likely impact of the weblog when Jorn Barger first introduced the word into our vocabulary as a way of describing what he was doing on his pioneering website.

Barger was compiling an online journal of interesting websites when he combined the words web and logging to give birth to the word weblog.

However, Barger wasn’t necessarily the first to create the weblog as there was already a small band of people around regularly updating such an online diary or journal.

The last decade has seen an explosion in blogging with the number of weblogs now estimated at more than 70 million.

Many blogs are used in a similar way to their journal counterparts in print – by keeping people up-to-date with new information, developments or breakthroughs in specialised fields.

But blogs are no longer just used as catalogues of useful websites, with many people using them as online diaries or platforms for their comments or views.

The evolution of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has also been attributed to the weblog.