Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Embedding BBC video now allowed
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
Do you see what I did there? Good isn’t it? The BBC have finally allowed the embedding of their videos in other peoples websites.
The third-party service does what you would expect and gives you the basic html code which can be slapped into most any website … just make sure you have read the terms [...]
Top 50 media sites bloggers link to
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
Technorati has produced a chart of the media sites bloggers are most likely to link to (as apposed to other blogs) and while it is no surprise YouTube gained the top slot the list is quite interesting.
For example UK sites BBC News, guardian.co.uk, telegraph.co.uk and the Daily Mail all feature in the top 20 of [...]
Dail Mail gives an example.com in bad links
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
The Daily Mail added some rather nice little video adverts for themselves today saying ‘Celebrate Daily’ ‘Smile Daily’ and ‘Scream Daily’ … I don’t know about you but reading the Mail only make me do one of those things ;)
While I am not a fan of any auto-playing video on sites (especially adverts) they didn’t [...]
By me: Twitter Baby
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
The Sun - Baby’s message from the womb
Okay I am feeling a bit like a Twitter correspondent, this is my second freelance article this month to be based on Twitter.
I first saw this story back in December when few news editors seemed to know what Twitter was, as a result it was too hard to explain [...]
By me: Why your inbox could have 3000 emails
Posted by Simon Crisp | Filed under Journalism
Daily Mail – ‘Spamalanche’: Workers return to thousands of amassed emails
Metro – Workers face inbox of 3,000 spam emails
‘Experts’ reckon you could have over 3,000 emails waiting in your inbox when you go back to work in the New Year.
Well actually they say heavy internet users could have 3,000 emails while most will [...]
