Disqus - Friends of martinstabe

Re: 3form Shortlisted for a Webby!

paulbradshaw — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:59:53 -0000

That really is fantastic. Well done.

Re: Why teach journalism students Dreamweaver?

paulbradshaw — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:04:25 -0000

I think the whole debate emphasises how valuable broad media degrees are.
We encourage journalism students to study web design (Dreamweaver, accessibility, usability, etc.) alongside their core modules in the first year - but they don't have to.
And they don't have to know Dreamweaver to do the second year Online Journalism module - instead they learn CMS and some basic HTML. Even when I didn't have a CMS to teach them I created a bunch of templates so they only had to fill the boxes.
IN the final year all students have to study a module from another production area to complement their core specialism. Azeem is studying web alongside journalism - which is where he learned PHP. TV students on the same module looked at VOD.
The whole debate is best illustrated by the following: my best online journalism student has had to switch from the specialist Journalism degree to the broad media degree, as it is the only way he was going to be able to study areas such as digital cultures and Flash.

Re: Blog Tig: Brum fun and blog fun

paulbradshaw — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:31:50 -0000

Great idea. My contribution will go live on Saturday.

Re: Blog Tig: Brum fun and blog fun

paulbradshaw — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:55:35 -0000

Do you need to be tigged before you can start tigging?

Re: What's wrong with Wikipedia (Scripting News)

paulbradshaw — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:41:39 -0000

A sound idea. Wikipedia's biggest weakness is when it gets personal, and that tends to be about people entries. Perhaps also a general disclaimer for biographies that says 'As this is an entry about a person, contributors may make unsubstantiated personal attacks' or similar.

Re: British entries shortlisted for Knight journalism grants

paulbradshaw — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:34:32 -0000

Some clarifications: Stefan Lewandowski was also part of the proposal submitted, in particular helping draw up budgets for both at extremely short notice. Rick Waghorn of MyFootballWriter and Tim Hood of Yoosk both also made it very far - in fact, I'm not sure why they're not listed here (perhaps because they were in the commercial section whereas mine were in the non commercial one)

Re: BREAKING – China Earthquake – 7.8 Magnitude

paulbradshaw — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:09:02 -0000

Thanks - this was a real test of a person's twitter abilities - it's not just knowing how to use Twitter, but everything built on it!

Re: Video Comments from Disqus/Seesmic…Please Introduce Yourselves…It’s Sooooo Easy

paulbradshaw — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:08:37 -0000

What I am not

Re: Comments in Twitter? (Scripting News)

paulbradshaw — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:51:31 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments

paulbradshaw — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:59:13 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Links out = Links in. Check the math (please!)

paulbradshaw — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:08:58 -0000

While I believe in the principle I'm slightly sceptical about the research, or at least part of it. The big advantage that blogs have is that they 'ping' other blogs when they link - that's one convincing reason why linking is so important. Most news CMS's don't ping - and I think that's an enormous barrier to their being part of the conversation (their blogs, however, may well do, which may be the part of the research that explains the result).
Now imagine if journalists commented outside their site too - or even responded to comments on their stories. Now that would be a leap.

Re: Links out = Links in. Check the math (please!)

paulbradshaw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:49:10 -0000

Actually, having slept on this, I think I've been too simplistic. When mainstream news sites link to me I don't get a ping (generally), but analytics software does mean I often find out where people are coming from - so it does make me more likely to link to them in turn.

Re: Adding Disqus and Seesmic video comments … and more interactivity

paulbradshaw — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:50:17 -0000

I prefer coComment - Disqus hosts the comments, so if they disappear, so do the comments, or so I'm told.

Re: Adding Disqus and Seesmic video comments … and more interactivity

paulbradshaw — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:17:19 -0000

If I install coComment as a browser plugin, then I seem to remember they don't host the comments? (As opposed to installing it as a blog plugin)

Re: Full disclosure time: New job

paulbradshaw — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:12:04 -0000

Congrats, Martin - Emap certainly seem to have their heads screwed on. All the best, and of course, keep in touch.

Re: More student journalists learning shorthand - Press Gazette

paulbradshaw — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:39:06 -0000

"Editors generally like journalists to have at least 100wpm shorthand skills to enable them to safely cover court proceedings." Says who?

Re: Professors: Catch up, or we're all left behind

paulbradshaw — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:10:25 -0000

Sorry won't have time to blog about this, but kind of have been doing for the last few years, so am sure there's a blog post or two that apply! hope it goes well.

Re: University Offers a Master’s Degree in Social Media

paulbradshaw — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:57:37 -0000

Still says "students" though - the reports only mention one.

Re: University Offers a Master’s Degree in Social Media

paulbradshaw — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:06:38 -0000

And of course it's an MA in Social Media, not social networking...

Re: Quote and Comment

paulbradshaw — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:51:45 -0000

Based on your mockup and our own early testing experiences I would make this point: users will expect their question to be answered with no further effort from themselves. This is something we hit on the very early tests, the 'Google effect' as it were.

Re: Quote and Comment

paulbradshaw — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:30:26 -0000

Not necessarily, but we had the 'Now what?' response in early tests where users expected some feedback to what they saw as a search. Apart from the design of the site we addressed that through personal communication too, e.g. how we welcomed users to the site, responses when they started an investigation and so on.

Re: Press Gazette - Pay hike for Sir Crispin as RBI enjoys boost from online

TheOpsMgr — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:14:56 -0000

Anyone interested in following the RBI divestment can do so here - http://divestmentwatch.blog...

Re: Press Gazette - Insight: Reed Elsevier has no stomach for the tough trade business

TheOpsMgr — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:56:35 -0000

Hello Peter,

So do you think that RBI has "missed the boat" in terms of a succesful transition to online for many of its titles?

Is 100% online desirable or is there still a place for that trade mag laying around at the hairdresser, optometrists, truck stop and farm (let alone the semi "high street" titles like New Scientist, Flight or Variety)?

The reason I ask is that I am writing a blog about the RBI divestment (http://divestmentwatch.blog... and I am keen to get opinions from people in the industry about "what I would do if I bought over RBI"?

Your thoughts and those of your readers are welcome!

thanks,
-TheOpsMgr

Re: Press Gazette - Reed Business Information is up for sale

TheOpsMgr — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:59:39 -0000

Anyone who wants to follow the news on the RBI sale can do so over here at http://divestmentwatch.blog...

cheers,
-TheOpsMgr

Re: Press Gazette - RBI boss tells staff sell off heralds 'exciting new era for RBI UK'

TheOpsMgr — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:00:14 -0000

Anyone who wants to follow the news on the RBI sale can do so over here at http://divestmentwatch.blog...

cheers,
-TheOpsMgr