Understanding the SEO rules of Google is one thing: but decoding them is another. Guillaume Sire presented some key findings from his forthcoming thesis from Paris/Toulouse at Metz #obsweb. Google makes its decisions based on crawlers that note the speed... Continue reading

Media Lab is a startup within the agency AFP. It is a team of around six people who are responsible for innovating at AFP. There are eight projects funded from the public purse (Europe, Bercy, ANR) Prototypes include AFP earth... Continue reading

Former AFP journalist Eric Scherer - now digital strategy at France TV - opened the third annual #websob conference with a roundup of the key factors that have changed th media world. Great examples were drawn together from Arsenal football... Continue reading

Here’s the final report of the SuBmoJour research project, a joint project with University of Tampere, USC Annenberg and Waseda University. I have co-authored the report with Esa Sirrkunen and worked with an amazing team including Nicola Bruno, Pekka Pekkala,... Continue reading

It has been a year in the making but our research into sustainable journalistic business models is out today You can download a free pdf version: http://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/66378 Continue reading

There's plenty I didn't know before embarking on this book. And I am afraid to say a project like this makes you realise how much there is you still don't know. But one point is a real stinking point. I... Continue reading

Sustainable business models for startups and media entrepreneurs is one of the key issues of the year. In research I have been doing with a global team, an interesting theme appears to be coming from many case studies. I am... Continue reading

Storytelling in social spaces has several characteristics which need to be considered. Where once stories were produced with a single output they are now built from a range of multimedia multi-voice elements. But social media adds another dimension, another value – and one which journalists must grasp if they are to survive in the new media landscape. This forthcoming section in my book Social Media for Journalists sets out the five I's of social media storytelling which embrace the iterative non-linear nature of content creation. Infrastructure Inform Immersion Interactivity Interest Continue reading

Professor Joseph Turow. Annenberg school of communication at uni of Pennsylvania. Author or the daily you, niche envy, breaking up America, hyperlinked society. Talking in Helsinki Submojour project and seminar May 2012. Here are my live notes. It's funny to... Continue reading

I have been asked to contribute to a research project: Put simply we are looking at 50 case studies from around the world of any media products that have made themselves sustainable. More to come on the precise definitions and... Continue reading

In a truly inpsirational interview, I had the enormous pleasure of talking to Sabine Torres today - founder and director of Dijonscope: Europe's only subscription-only regional online news site, based in Dijon, France. The strategy as of four months ago... Continue reading

UcLan students were drafted in to report on an emergency exercise today: a radioactive leak in Cumbria. The students represented the media for the day, putting experts and emergency service personnel through their paces. They had to respond to breaking news throughout the day, ask questions during press conferences and... Continue reading

Here are some of our ideas about how this story should be developed: role of social media as the modern way of communicating but what about the elderly an over reaction in terms of stopping everyone moving around six hours into the incident and we dont know how much waste... Continue reading

Major disruption is being caused between families and residents as the mobile network has been suspended. Social networking sites are being used as the default communications network, as well as landlines. Twitter #exerciseoscar10 and the radio station as well as Facebook are being used. Pat Granham from the Cumbria Council... Continue reading

by Zuzana After a collision between a construction crane and a waste storage facility this morning on the cost of Irish Sea in Cumbria, when the nuclear waste was realised into the air, the water as well as the food has luckily stayed uncontaminated, a police spokesman, Justin Bibby announced.... Continue reading

Sellafield Timeline by Edgars 8:39 – There has been an accident at the Sellafield site, in the operation area – a serious collusion between a construction crane and waste storage facility at the coast of the Irish sea. 10:30 – Police Spokesman Superintendent Justin Billy was giving a Cumbria Police... Continue reading

As it happens: this is a geographical interpretation of the emergency incident here in Cumbria View Cumbria excersize in a larger map Continue reading

By Zuzana Potentially dangerous radioactive waste has been released into the air this morning at 8:34 after a serious collision between a construction crane and a waste storage facility at the Sellafield site on the coast of the Irish sea in Cumbria , Cumbria police has warned. A police spokesman,... Continue reading

A state of emergency has been declared in Cumbria after a radioactive incident at Sellafield. The incident happened after a collision at 8.39 this morning between a crane and a storage unit at the seperation area of the site. Hundreds of residents within a six kilometer area are being told... Continue reading

By Jandira Cumbria Police is urging people that leave near the power plant site in Sellafield not to abandon their position and to seek shelter as an incident occurred in the separation area this morning at 8.39. Emergency services are investigating the causes of the collision between the construction crane... Continue reading

We are working to find out the answers to the following questions: how many residents are in these areas that evacuated the driver of the crane or manual - is this human error the exact chemicals that were in the facility how many people working at Sellafied today the cost... Continue reading

By Sarah Gregory POLICE are today warning residents of a nuclear leak which could echo of the 1988 crisis when pigeons spread nuclear active waste. A collision has happened this morning at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria and residents are being warned to stay in doors. In the 1988 incident,... Continue reading

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Students will be aiming to produce a range of editorial outputs as part of an emergency training day. Continue reading

Uclan students are taking part in an emergency reconstruction event. The events detailed on this blog will be ficticious and represent role playing only. All outputs are for the purposes of acting out and practising crisis management. Please find following the rules of engagement given out to students. Rules of... Continue reading