tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55415095461301105332012-02-16T15:11:20.321ZOnline newspapers, SEO and general Web stuffCarlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.comBlogger1331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-28273478125792724012011-05-11T20:44:00.000+01:002011-05-13T21:33:22.226+01:00

THIS SITE HAS MOVED… …TO CONTINUE READING PLEASE VISIT www.carlywilkiesteven.com THANK YOU!

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Ladies and gentlemen: YouTube Trends, a destination for daily insight into the zeitgeist of the world's largest video site.The idea for YouTube Trends started with our desire to find new ways of identifying the viral and newsworthy content people love to share and packaging it in an easy to digest format. With over 35 hours of video now uploaded to YouTube every minute, we wanted one place to

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I know it´s been a while but just had to post this totally on the money article from the New York Times:British Newspaper Finds Readers Flocking OnlineFor daily, or even hourly, updates on the life of Cheryl Cole, a British television talent-show judge and sometime pop singer who used to be married to a soccer star, there may be no better resource than the Web site of The Daily Mail.

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Source: Journalism.co.uk

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The Pros & Cons Of The Affiliate Model What Is Affiliate Marketing"Affiliate Marketing is a marketing method whereby one business rewards another business for sending customers, visitors and/or sales."Mostly, affiliate marketing rewards come in the form of revenue share on a sale. Site A (the affiliate) funnels visitors to Site B (the merchant). If a transaction is completed by the merchant, the

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Great collection from Mashable

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This is a really useful slideshow. I thought I had a fairly sound grasp of Google operators but it turns out there's a lot more to it than I thought!To find case studies from official government sites about outbreaks of swine flu in UK schools try this:site:.gov.uk "swine flu*schools"~outbreakThe asterisk acts as a wildcard for any words in between 'swine flu' and 'schools' and the ~ symbol

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"Google are upping the stakes in search with a roll out of new ways to slice and dice your search results. The most interesting and useful for me, as a journalist, is the ability to limit the search to the last 24 hours. I can imagine using this frequently. See Google's blog post here."We were told that the hardest problems in search were:- Finding the most recent information- Expressing that you

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The trouble with “online media” is that it, to my mind, implies the state of your PC constantly connected to the Internet via an ethernet cable or wi-fi. But it doesn’t really work to describe mobile devices like phones or e-readers (e.g., Amazon’s Kindle), which increasingly are supplementing or even replacing the PC as Internet access devices and retrieve data from the Internet on-demand.Source

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Went to see a preview screening of Coraline yesterday evening - totally magical."Add to those interested parties the millions who love the fantasy-rich literature of Neil Gaiman and those who adore the dreamscape artistry of Nightmare Before Christmas filmmaker Henry Selick, and you have the audience for Coraline: everybody. This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in

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The World Wide Web is 20 years old!From Read Write Web:One year ago Berners-Lee said that all the pieces needed to build a new Semantic Web are now in place. Last month he gave an impassioned talk at the high-profile TED conference about a related concept called Linked Data, a set of ideas he outlined in 2006. The gist of the idea is that we need every institution that can do so to put raw data

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Guardian Open Platform Launch EventView more presentations from mattmcalister.

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A panel of eight judges from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania voted that the Internet was the biggest innovation of the last three decades, followed by computers, mobile phones and e-mail.Source: New York Times

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Thank you Google Operating System

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The New York Times is launching a new service that aims to replicate the experience of browsing the Sunday papers as if they're spread out across a table.It is easier and more relaxing to scan a surface of information than flip through a stack, so information is laid out in a rigid two-dimensional grid. The sections do not flip into place; instead, they slide up and down. If you want to imagine

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My former tutor Professor John Mullan presents this wonderful and enlightening programme 'How Reading Made Us Modern' on BBC 4.It made me want to re-read Pamela in the coffee shop in the British Library with King George III's collection towering above me.Incidentally, one of the treasures in the BL is the Lindisfarne Gospels (late 7th/early 8th Century) - the oldest surviving translation of the

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I loved the story about the koala bears Sam and Bob who were rescued from the bush fires in Australia.Reuters provides the story but the Mail has the best pictures.Watch the YouTube video here:

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Great radio 4 programme 'Free for All' on In Business.Wired magazine's Chris Anderson talks about the long tail and Professor James Boyle explains the Creative Commons copyright system.Subscribe to the podcast here.

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Great video of animals singing a Christmas song:Thanks to the Guardian for pointing it out here.

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Strong anti-Google sentiments from French publishers reveal a stuck-in-the-mud attitude prevalent throughout much old media. But who's right?Interesting comments and round up on journalism.co.uk: French publishers vs Google: ‘You are becoming our worst enemy’Also this video:Laura Oliver who posted the article observes:Google, secrecy about its algorithms and dominance of the online ad market

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I have just, literally moments ago, discovered that I am not alone in my fondness for Charlie Brooker . . .It started with a feed from the Guardian into my iGoogle page and now he's on TV and those clever techies have even erected a digital shrine in the form of charlian.co.uk: All Charlie, All the time.

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From Dave Winer's Scripting News blog:

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I was catching up with the excellent Speechification blog and was directed by their recent post to The Poetry Archive, which was set up by Andrew Motion almost 10 years ago.The title of my entry is of course lifted from T S Eliot's The Waste Land. You can hear the poet himself reading his poem here.

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No point paraphrasing - here's John Battelle's latest ripost to Nick Carr: Well, Nick, sorry, but here's at least one study backing up my contention: A new study suggests that searching online could be beneficial for the brain. Searching online triggers areas of the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning. A study at the University of California, Los Angeles, measured brain

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Me, in Deep Cove.Now back in London with much redder hair x

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A wee while ago, Giles Coren had a very public go at the sub editors at the Times for butchering one of his reviews.Here is his letter:To: the Times subeditors From: Coren, GilesChaps,I am mightily pissed off ... I don't really like people tinkering with my copy for the sake of tinkering. I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do ...

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This will probably be the first of many many pictures that I post here which capture the wonderful week I've just spent in Canada.This picture was taken by me - jet-lagged - from my hotel room in Vancouver very early in the morning.

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Another great post from Scott Karp:Newspapers were once THE most important filters for news. But they gave up this role on the web, because they didn’t see that the web analogue to what they did on the front page in print was NOT taking the same content and putting it on a website front page. In fact, you could argue that this is the single biggest mistake that newspapers have made on the web.

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I'm here in Vancouver staying in the stunning Fairmont Waterfront. Below is a similar looking room to the one I'm staying in with a view over the harbour.I'm here with a group of journalists on a sustainable tourism press trip organised by Rocky Mountaineer. We've been looked after very well so far - had a wonderful dinner in the hotel's restaurant last night after a tour of their rooftop herb

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It is almost one month since my last blog post, which is shameful. I handed my MA dissertation in one week ago and now no longer have an excuse for not resuming where I left off.Noticed this on the Google blog:Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.

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I know, I seem to have a funny animal story obsession at the moment but this one is so cute.Source: MailOnline

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Source: MailOnline

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Dissertation deadline is now only one month away and it's time for another survey.If you would like to fill it out, it will only take a couple of minutes, please click here.Thanks!

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Please check out the smarter travel week over at the TravelRants blogFor the next seven days, Travel Rants will be rant free. I know, it’s shocking, but it’s that time of the year where the schools will soon be closing and everyone will be heading off on their summer holiday. So next week we will be promoting healthy and smarter travel.

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It was announced this morning. Jeff Jarvis flagged it up here and directed us to Kara Swisher's scoop here. Jarvis, whot writes for the Guardian, couldn't be happier: I can say from firsthand experience that the Guardian people are just great to work with: brilliant, challenging, civlized, witty, strategic. (And they don’t pay me enough to suck up to them.) Rafat has always been my premier

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Great illustration by Matthew Inman depicting the state of the Web in Summer 08. Click here for the full thing.

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This could be what my hair looks like . . . time to rinse and find out

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Several weeks without a blog entry is pretty poor going. My hard drive crashed and the ever imminent dissertation deadline have kept me from Carly's Blog. Now, however, I have a new laptop and I am once again online and clicking away.The story that I just keep coming back to is ony by Nick Carr in the current issue of The Atlantic. With the brilliant title Is Google Making Us Stupid? it was

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How wonderful is this:ROME — A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday. "This is fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, told The Associated Press. "The unicorn has always been a mythological animal."Sadly, it's

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Saw this in the Independent website, had to share it.

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Ok, it's obvious I'm not at work today. I have discovered BookRabbit and developed a new obsession. Check this out:Oh how I wish I owned books with as many different coloured spines as this person.BookRabbit lets you sniff around other peoples' reading habits and stacking preferences; you can also buy books that are as cheap if not cheaper than Amazon and shipping is free - result!For a better

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I know, I know, I promised great literary volumes . . . but for now you'll have to content yourselves with the chatty Teletext cats . . . I just love these guys! I was inspired by the cracking squirrel video posted by the secret squirrel herself here.

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This is spooky Birnbeck Pier in Weston super mare.As you can probably tell it's deserted and seems to be begging to be turned into the setting for a horror film.My weekend in Weston deserves more time and effort than I can afford at the moment to devote to writing about it. I will endeavor to collect my thoughts and report back later this evening.Image courtesy of Synwell Liberation Front via

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I just could not believe this story when I read it in the Mail, but then I saw the pictures!This man drank 6 cans of beer, took some photographs of the sunset and then leapt across the Grand Canyon - my stomach twists just thinkihng about it.

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I haven't posted for a few days because I've been panicking about my exam, which was yesterday and was fine.Saw this post on the Publishing 2.0 blog and thought it was quite interesting. It's about proprietary applications/networks like Facebook and whether they are the future of the Web. Here's an extract but it's worth reading Scott Karp's article in full.Google CEO Eric Schmit has wondered

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This is the video that Charles Leadbeater showed at the talk I went to see at the British Library a month or so ago. It's really worth 4 minutes of your time.

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This is a new ad campaign by French group RSF, which is targeting regimes that restrict freedom of the press.

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Isn't this lovely?

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Just realised I haven't really posted about work for ages!It's getting pretty interesting. I've discovered the joys of Microsoft Visio and have been spending ages painstakingly mocking up the perfect travel website homepage.All to no avail of course because we're changing tack and making a stealth bid for a new CMS that I don't think I'm allowed to talk about! Hopefully this should make it

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I saw this ages ago and keep forgetting to put it up.I just love this picture!It's from a Lonely Planet article about Off-beat London, which is worth checking out because I live here and I wasn't aware of everything on the list.

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Is it nostalgia that makes us cling to print?Jeff Jarvis flags up Colin Crawford's comments on International Data Group's transition from print to digital and leaves us with the following ruminations:Yes, print is a burden. It’s expensive to produce for it. It’s expensive to manufacture. It’s expensive to deliver. It limits your space. It limits your timing. It’s stale when it’s fresh. It is

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-68254015131916500792008-05-06T14:50:00.002+01:002008-05-06T14:54:13.038+01:00

Spam is 30 years old today according to John Naughton writing in today's Guardian.In the same article, he also refers to a new book coming out entitled The future of the Internet: and how to stop it by Jonathan Zittrain.Generativity has brought us the web, instant communication, Skype, e-commerce and other wonderful things. But it has also given us spam, viruses, botnets, cyber-crime and other

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-17641739908162306662008-05-03T16:09:00.001+01:002008-05-03T16:11:52.845+01:00

Great post from John Naughton:Bertie Wooster elected! Yep. He’s London’s new Mayor. And all the while he thought he was running for the Wine-Tasting Committee of the Drones Club. Much public entertainment lies ahead. Bad news for the Supreme Leader, though. The game’s over. And it doesn’t have all that much to do with Gordon Brown’s competence/incompetence. It’s simply that Labour’s

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-50111697812648596342008-04-30T21:25:00.002+01:002008-04-30T21:29:18.647+01:00

This is absolutely exquisite:Check out the animation by James Jean and music by CocoRosie here.I want a Prada bag!

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-85931047157655074342008-04-28T23:37:00.003+01:002008-04-28T23:43:42.289+01:00

How exactly does a digital newspaper gain an extra 5 million unique users in one month?The Guardian thinks it is something to do with overseas traffic.Having spent the past few weeks analysing its travel page, I think that it's definitely better in many respects than it's competitors.Although, I'm still very interested by The Dirty Weekend Guide to Europe that appeared on the front page of the

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-75033996112837350672008-04-24T23:07:00.002+01:002008-04-24T23:12:09.664+01:00

The new extreme sport, swimming in a natural pool 360ft above the base of Victoria FallsFor the full Times Travel article about Devil's Pool, click here.

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-19716330157957021172008-04-23T07:49:00.002+01:002008-04-23T07:54:36.744+01:00

So, this is it, print journalism is truly over . . .

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-26358661784943192742008-04-22T23:13:00.002+01:002008-04-22T23:23:30.083+01:00

Funny start to the week. I had a kind-of half day today because we had a revision session in the morning, which was not uplifting. Also, even though I know I shouldn't be bothered by it, everyone else seems to have a much stronger grasp of xslt than I do. And - I got a rubbish mark for my proof-reading exercise.A release went out today, which was fine-ish except a few things were forgotten and

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-24351314249572294062008-04-19T09:50:00.003+01:002008-04-19T09:58:26.333+01:00

I have to admit I didn't notice the stench yesterday, but everyone in the office did.People in Angel, Shepherd's Bush, Richmond - everyone seemed to have been aware of the smell. This is what the Mail had to say by way of an explanation:Police, fire and water services were at a loss to explain the manure-scented cloud which afflicted great swathes of the South. But with the wind in the East, it

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-74757251753102212232008-04-16T23:39:00.005+01:002008-04-17T17:44:22.713+01:00

Did anyone catch the beta launch of the new Mail Online website?It's only available office hours Monday to Friday at the moment.The Guardian is not too keen.It's definitely cleaner than the older version.What does anyone else think?

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-73400428828124179902008-04-15T22:42:00.002+01:002008-04-15T22:47:41.171+01:00

The first day of the London Book Fair saw David Nicholas talking about e-books and the Google generation - something that was the focus of a recent CIBER research study.I thought they didn't appeal to me, but maybe that's because I haven't tried out the Kindle yet.

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-21862127271220134242008-04-10T18:58:00.002+01:002008-04-10T19:14:33.374+01:00

I think I met someone with a job title I would like to have - content strategy director.We had a Blue Peter session yesterday cutting out lots of modules - from our own site and from others - and shuffling them around on a giant paper version of the current homepage shell. There is so much we want to cram in!Our editor is off to Tenerife tomorrow - something about dancing on a cruise ship?What

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-16461383207453526022008-04-08T19:22:00.004+01:002008-04-08T19:50:30.686+01:00

I gave my first presentation yesterday to the editor and publisher. I think it went well.I had spent much of last week meeting people from different departments of the company umbrella and getting their perspectives on which areas the site should be developing. Of course, everyone who has an interest in the site has their own agenda; but there were a lot of interesting observations.For instance

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-69672896947924735592008-04-06T10:46:00.003+01:002008-04-06T10:55:39.579+01:00

I awoke this morning to a vision of anachronistic festivity. If I could work out how to do it I would upload the photos I took on my mobile of snow-kissed Camden.Unfortunately, my technological prowess has thus far failed me. I have, however, found that I am not alone in my early morning snap happy action. My friend down the road just sent me this picture:And Seamus McCauley has also posted on

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-12994136951908300792008-04-05T22:00:00.002+01:002008-04-05T22:16:04.476+01:00

Buzz machine post by Jeff Jarvis, which includes a reminder about Britannica's forum next week on the fate of the newspaper industry (I wish Nick Davis was talking. I'm looking forward to reading Flat Earth News and being able to participate in the very loud reaction its publication has provoked. I'm also really keen to get hold of The Big Switch whose author - Nick Carr - will be talking at

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-24379463692393133832008-04-03T20:22:00.004+01:002008-04-03T21:02:01.004+01:00

I can't believe how quickly this week is going.And now how fast the working day goes.My boss was away for a few days so I thought I should show some initiative and get cracking with everything I remembered him having mentioned as being a good idea.I love working on the home page. Having installed Fireshots and reacquainted myself with Powerpoint I am now happily immersed in the task at hand.I've

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-44963802755703557412008-03-31T19:53:00.003+01:002008-03-31T20:15:19.329+01:00

At last . . . !I was getting worried I was going to be Excel-ing for two months. But today I sat down with two colleagues - editor and publisher - and had a brainstorming session.The homepage of our site is to undergo a renovation and it will be my job to gather information, talk to people in-house and critique the competition. I'm still going to be responsible for weekly reports and

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-5356287906329537142008-03-28T20:11:00.003Z2008-03-28T20:27:22.858Z

I heard about this on radio 4 this morning - 17 years before Edison's phonograph, Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville had made a recording of Clair de Lune - but I managed to miss Charlotte Green's subsequent fit of giggles:According to the Daily Mail:Green's stern but smooth news-reading voice has become an article of faith for many traditionalists who listen to her bulletins on

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-37833785156075818812008-03-28T19:43:00.002Z2008-03-28T19:47:17.369Z

Interesting post from the Europe a la Carte blog about the value of user-generated reviews and the EU's imminent ban on faux-bloggers:From next month “flogging” or misleading commercial blogging will be outlawed by the European Union. Under the new rules companies who post glowing reviews of their own products or services or pay others to enhance their reputation. will be liable to prosection.

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-82330969111572310132008-03-28T07:58:00.002Z2008-03-28T08:02:13.909Z

I am writing this very quickly before I leave to catch my bus.I wanted to provide a link here to Charles Leadbeater's website More people than ever can pariticpate in culture, contributing their ideas, views, information. The web allows them not just to publish but to share and connect, to collaborate and when the conditions are right, to create, together, at scale.

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-15419894120108411232008-03-26T22:31:00.002Z2008-03-26T22:37:33.283Z

A very brief post:Had a more interesting second day. Did a lot of testing and found a few bugs that need fixing. I'm also going to be let loose on the content side of things and tackle some of the propotional spaces.I went to see Charles Leadbeater discuss his new book 'We-Think: Mass Innovation, not mass production' at the British Library this evening. It was truly inspirational and has given

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-52571189676105532312008-03-25T21:47:00.002Z2008-03-25T22:04:25.193Z

What a morning - I left in plenty of time to catch the tube only to hear that the District and Circle lines were both down between Edgware Road and Earl's Court - exactly where I wanted to go. Thankfully, the number 27 came to the rescue and got me there just in time.The building I am working in is quite amazing - a vast atrium with water features, escalators, spiral staircases, swipe cards,

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-79773652382821604552008-03-24T23:11:00.002Z2008-03-24T23:29:03.998Z

Firstly, I would like to thank Darren, Karen and Nicola for your comments on the first entry of my re-launched blog. When I was blogging the first time round it was purely as a means of communication between some friends who were working on a project together.Having looked at both Karen and Darren's blogs, I see that mine is a bit sparse in comparison! If I manage to convince my new boss that I

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-76764645161366103202008-03-24T15:41:00.002Z2008-03-24T15:52:03.445Z

Ok, I'm going to try to start over with this blog and maybe invite some new people to contribute. Tomorrow I am starting my 2 month placement at the Mail Online. I will be working on the Travel section so I've spent most of the afternoon Google-ing travel websites and looking at other online papers' travel sections.I've already found a couple of really interesting blogs in this area:Europe A La

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-68612989894235177882008-01-14T10:53:00.000Z2008-01-14T10:58:41.936Z

First entry of 2008!Today we hand in the Internet Technologies website project, what a relief.x x x

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-2125883518058319372007-12-17T08:50:00.000Z2007-12-17T08:57:28.830Z

How delightful to see an entry again!I've had a weekend off from study to put on my painter/decorator hat - helping Greg re-do his room. I never imagined I would get excited by curtain rails?!Ilia you missed an extremely tedious Systems Management lecture on Thursday. Seriously, you would have been tearing your hair out.Happy essay writing. Are you jetting off soon? Safe trip for when you

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-6215297571926556012007-12-10T20:32:00.000Z2007-12-10T20:35:16.560Z

Don't know if either of you will check this again . . .I've really enjoyed keeping the blog. I have to admit I wasn't entirely sure what the point in them was until we started using one for our project.Anyway, I may try to keep it going . . . even if it's just a means of distracting me when I'm supposed to be doing proper work.xxx

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-86006158400182238792007-12-07T14:22:00.000Z2007-12-07T14:26:09.296Z

Carly,I've had a look on the internet and apparently we could get www.graduart.net for £8.99/year. Unfortunately, www.graduart.co.uk has been taken :o(x

Claire Bnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-25941484354540354042007-12-07T08:17:00.000Z2007-12-07T08:22:40.882Z

Hey,Ok so the report is essentially done and dusted I think. There are, however, a few grammatical bits and pieces that need cleaning up before the hand-in on Wednesday, which I will do today and email the changes to you both. Ilia I know you are doing some formatting stuff to it and I don't want to mess that up so I'll make the changes - there are just a few and shouldn't affect the

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-38209265463504757052007-12-05T14:26:00.000Z2007-12-05T14:36:12.076Z

Just had a response from Claire Warwick and she says the layout description can be included as an appendix outwith the work limit. So, I think we're about done if you are both happy with my edit. The contents page will need to be sorted and the appendices added. I think the latter should be a seperate document entirely just to make absolutely clear that it's not part of the report.In the

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-73712003707892598852007-12-04T19:41:00.000Z2007-12-04T19:45:17.537Z

Markup is not vital. You may have been talking to some of the publishers, whom I've told they don't need to worry about markup, as they don't study HTML. Obviously ECP students do, but the assessment of this project is mainly based on the report, and the sample is just that- a way to demonstrate the kind of thing you would be working with. So don't make it a priority.Yes you absolutely must stick

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-60312831848047734532007-12-04T18:08:00.000Z2007-12-04T18:10:32.476Z

Hi Girls,I've had a go at editing the report and I think it's ok. It's much easier to edit other peoples work than your own so please feel free to hack some more off my sections!I will email it to you both now.Just a wee bit over 3500!x

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-70219056977155569182007-12-04T15:35:00.000Z2007-12-04T15:42:05.770Z

Hey,Just re-read through coursework guidelines and it says the LIMIT is 3500 words, not circa 3500!Also, when asked to provide a sample of our product, this should 'ideally' be in markup - although not essential for publishing students; ie it probably IS essential for us ECP students.I have been looking at the combined business plan and I think we could cut the word count by putting your layout

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-20056912364820159982007-12-01T17:28:00.001Z2007-12-01T17:52:47.056Z

Hi Girls,Hope you're both having pleasant weekends and aren't too stressed by impending deadlines.I've been doing some work on my section of the report this afternoon. Ilia I've incorporated your description as part of the Products and Services section and taken some of my original stuff out. My word count is now huge but as you said Ilia, mine probably should be quite substantial. I'll have

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-24655839794956587982007-11-30T23:16:00.000Z2007-11-30T23:18:04.184Z

Claire, remind me on Monday, I came across something I highlighted ages ago about advertising and Web 2.0 by John Naughton - I think it may be relevant and might be worth quoting?Hope you're feeling betterx

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-14013842717986303432007-11-28T22:37:00.000Z2007-11-28T22:41:27.758Z

Ilia, I'm happy for you to send your descriptive stuff my way.And yes, I think maybe having a blog and a forum is too much. A forum waould be far more diplomatic.I went to see Macbeth this afternoon with Patrick Stewart as the Scottish tyrant - it was fantastic but theatre full of noisy school children.We were talking about the Internet, Facebook and blogs in my French class tonight so for once,

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-10806893278256613312007-11-28T20:09:00.001Z2007-11-28T20:15:09.652Z

Hello Ladies,Just thought I'd post the reply I got from Claire Warwick regarding pricing: Dear Claire, The main thing is that you make clear what kind of costs you willincur and how you would make money to cover them. You don't have toprovide concrete figures, although if you happen to have them, thenthat's fine.Claire xx

Claire Bnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-89784714487441193752007-11-26T16:32:00.001Z2007-11-26T16:45:25.120Z

I have not heard from Paul - I don't expect to immediately as he hates having to write long replies!Ilia and I had a chat this afternoon and we think it will be useful to be able to provide evidence that we actively sought feedback and responded to it. So yeah, no sign up fee and no star rating.With regards where we mention the survey results, I think that should be in the Market Research section

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-62284539027878616872007-11-26T13:58:00.000Z2007-11-26T14:29:21.126Z

I know what you mean! I feel like we have been labelled as cut-throat capitalists rather unjustly.However, I think we can probably turn this to our advantage. In light of the results, we should get rid of the subscription fee and rely on the commission and advertising (which I forgot to put into my section - will add that now!). Perhaps we could think about charging for subscription once we have

Claire Bnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-4610716428921235202007-11-26T13:27:00.000Z2007-11-26T13:30:14.652Z

Just looked through responses again. It seems to be the voting that people don't like too much as well. Another way of determining popular artists - if that is still something we want to do - is just by monitoring which artworks are viewed the most often. It would therefore, be less like a 'talent show' as I think someone referred to it.Sorry, I'm still just so shocked!

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-69581541665886276772007-11-26T13:05:00.000Z2007-11-26T13:15:06.185Z

Hey,Claire you poor thing - hope you feel better soon.I have just looked at some of the survey responses. Ouch, their is one preson in particular who is extremely harsh. Do you think it is worth circulating another email? I don't think it was made clear in the original email that we would be providing advice and sending out a newletter on upcoming events etc. Or, maybe it is worth rethinking

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-7819846326854153772007-11-26T10:49:00.000Z2007-11-26T11:04:44.622Z

Morning Ladies,As you may have noticed, I'm not at uni today - I have had the stomach bug from hell over the weekend and didn't get much sleep last night. So, apologies for being absent.However, I have managed to write up my section of the report, which I will email to you individually. You will see that two chapters are yet to be completed - "Market Research" and "Start Up Costs and

Claire Bnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-48517758559425313032007-11-25T18:59:00.000Z2007-11-25T19:02:28.954Z

Hi,I've written up something for the business plan. It's over the word count but I thought it would be better to have too much than too little and I can always edit it. I've left it as a Word document at the moment. I'll email it to both of you and you can read it before tomorrow if you have time and tell me what you think - too vague? stuff missed out? etc.Hope you've both had lovely

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-47855152309776706362007-11-25T16:01:00.000Z2007-11-25T16:05:36.888Z

Hi Girls,I've just been reading back through the blog before I start writing up my bits and pieces for tomorrow and I was following some of the links I put up to similar sites. I think this one may interest us:http://www.latest-art.co.uk/It might be worth mentioning in out report/business plan as a potential source of mutual advertising. It's aimed specifically as London + Brighton/SE England

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-42946610588328305862007-11-23T08:41:00.000Z2007-11-23T08:45:10.827Z

Hey,Just to let you know I've emailed Slade with the survey.Also, might be good idea to email Claire (tutor Claire) re. specific pricing issues.Can't remember what we said about uploading 3 images for free. But thinking about it now I'm not sure that's a good idea as wouldn't mean people could just keep changing the images they display without actually paying us anything?! On the other hand it

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-63449326362934838132007-11-22T15:21:00.000Z2007-11-22T15:36:17.841Z

Hi Girls,I'm in the process of writing up my portion of the business plan and have a few things that I want to clarify:- Ilia - are you doing Competition? If so, are you looking at the pricing schemes of other websites? It's just in the Costs section it seems like a good idea to compare.- Did we agree that users could upload 3 images to their portfolio but after that they had to pay the £50

Claire Bnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541509546130110533.post-22537325625628347902007-11-20T12:28:00.000Z2007-11-20T12:32:03.862Z

Hi Girls,Just to keep you informed, these are the questions I've emailed to Paul. I'll let you know if/when I get a response.Why did you set up Londonart?Whan did you set it up?How did you start/go about doing this?(if it's not too rude!) what sort of costs were involved in this process?How did you promote the site to the public?How did you get artists interested in signing up?What was your

Carlyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01240926170656801759noreply@blogger.com0