OhmyNews calls on readers for funding – a contributor reacts

July 9th, 2009
OhmyNews, the South Korean-led citizen journalism venture, is appealing to contributors and readers for money, according to an open letter from its publisher Oh Yeon-ho (via MediaGuardian.co.uk ). Last year OhmyNews was 700 million KRW in the red and halfway through 2009 was making a loss of 500 million, despite cutting salaries and 10 staff, the statement says. In January the site ended its payment scheme for contributors to its international site. The site has launched the ‘100,000

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June 27th, 2009
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All together now

May 30th, 2009
Sometimes it feels like wedding season for journalism and social media. I’ve been out with my dance card to a few unconference and large group meetings lately – it’s good to see people interested and interesting people. So what’s the point of getting out into the air and chatting? I’m sure there are many people who would see this as a jolly and for those who drink a nice piss up to boot.

links for 2009-05-29

May 29th, 2009
Google Wave and Bing go head to head in Trends | Andrew R H Girdwood One of what I expect to be a wave [can you see what I did there?] of posts comparing Bing to well, just about everything search related. I'm working on something eye-catching like "How Bing reminds me of Excite.com" (tags: bing microsoft search google ) All together now « Something to be said. Jemimah Knight with some reflections fr

All together now « Something to be said.

May 28th, 2009
Jemimah Knight with some reflections from a recent glut of journofests

Links for May 22nd through May 27th

May 27th, 2009
Some links for you: Birmingham: A Cinematic Backwater - the debate - My ranting on twitter and on my blog turns into an event: “We’ve put together a panel of three of the big film faces from the city (Professor Roger Shannon, Ian Francis and Dan Lawson) to lead a debate on what needs to happen next. How do we cultivate the venues, the audiences and the distribution channels that will open the floodgates for non mainstream film and prevent us from lingering as a ‘cinematic backwater’? What k

Sweeble - Simply brilliant publishing to both print and web for FREE

May 22nd, 2009
Saw these guys present at JEECamp: "Simply brilliant publishing to both print and web for FREE (In fact, we help you make money!). Create professional printed newsletters, magazines and brochures plus a free website. Add your own articles, pictures and adverts to sweeble’s free desktop publisher and let us print and deliver."

blondepinky3 : @exsanguinator I’m still waiting to hear about something with some B’ham hospitals (PR) with someone I met at #jEEcamp…so maybe!

May 16th, 2009
blondepinky3 : @exsanguinator I'm still waiting to hear about something with some B'ham hospitals (PR) with someone I met at #jEEcamp...so maybe!

blondepinky3 : @exsanguinator I’m still waiting to hear about something with some B’ham hospitals (PR) with someone I met at #jEEcamp…so maybe!

May 16th, 2009
blondepinky3 : @exsanguinator I'm still waiting to hear about something with some B'ham hospitals (PR) with someone I met at #jEEcamp...so maybe!

JEEcamp 2009: Interview with Paul Bradshaw – on the future of journalism « John Welsh’s These Digital Times

May 15th, 2009