Steve Reubel reports /a> on the launch of gada.be a new search engine from Chris Pirillo which could be a really useful tool for journalists wanting to set up persistent searches on topics which you can run time and time again – just add the word you want to search on in front of “gada.be” and save to favourites [eg. boeing.gada.be].
100 million blogs
The Blog Herald reports in its Blog Count in Octoberthat there are now over 100 million blogs in the world.
The Blooker Prize
The Blog Herald reports on the launch of The Blooker Prize a new literary award set up to honour books which started life as blogs…
Top 10 Ten Blogs
Steve Rubel picks his top 10 blogs, listed in “no particular order”
Charting the rise in posts
Technorati charts the rise in daily blog postings with an interesting chart detailing significant events.
16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
Intelligent Bacon has 16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
What do bloggers earn?
Micro Persuasion has the answer…
Blogging Survey – On Bloggers
Qumana Blog has a survey on bloggers.
Quality online
Chris Horrie has done lots of stuff around journalism, writing and lecturing, and he’s also a writer of books including “Stick it up your punter!”.
He predicts journalism will become an all female professional based on the evidence of the students coming through his post graduate journalism course at the University of Westminster – 70% female at least. And he is now considering abolishing the twin tracks of print and broadcast in favour of one multi-media track.
He demonstrates tools like Wordtracker to determine what key words works best for which audience group.
Chris urged B2B companies to be more visible in the colleges in order to help attract more people into business journalism.
Quote: “All you need to work for Heat magazine is a powerful camera, a blackbelt in Karate and a motorbike”.
“A story is a story no matter what the medium may be”
“Old fashioned TV news was over produced”. Modern technology allows for much more immediate journalism.
Martini Journalism
Peter Knowles, from BT, (right) says 70% of staff can work everywhere – what he calls “location based”. 40-50% of the time desks are empty – desk sharing or hotdesking can improve utilisation of property. Each desk costs on average £9k per year. BT’s view was that every job was to be a home working job unless it was business justified. Technology used to support this includes: virtual number, desk and chair supplied and supported, central support for stationery ordering delivered to home etc. Now the sales pitch: BT having done this to themselves are now selling management services to companies like us…
Noel O’Reilly talked about his year working remotely in Barcelona and stressed the personal motivation to do it and the risks of 24 by 7 access.