Posted: May 9th, 2011 | Author: Ed Walker | Filed under: blogging, Journalism, web | Tags: assembly elections, council meetings, live blogging, manchester evening news, online journalism, royal wedding live blog, test match special, the ashes, the guardian, walesonline | 4 Comments »
Updated: Paul Bradshaw has blogged a great set of ideas and tips for live blogging, he even referenced this post. Please do check it out for even more ideas.
Last week we live-blogged the Assembly election in Wales and the AV Referendum results in Wales – for nearly 24 hours.
Live-blogging is becoming an accepted part of the online journalism toolkit, with the likes of Andrew Sparrow at The Guardian being recognised for his political live-blogging, sports journalism embracing the concept for updates from matches – in particular in cricket and the Test Match Special Team for the recent Ashes series in Australia, and local media groups committing to provide live coverage of council meetings.
I thought I’d explore in this post what makes a good live-blog and some hints and tips for making a good one. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: August 23rd, 2008 | Author: Ed Walker | Filed under: blogging, campaigning, charities, Journalism, tools, web | Tags: dipity, manchester evening news, storytelling, timelines, web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Craig McGinty for flagging this one up. Craig posted about the Manchester Evening News’ great use of Dipity to create online timelines. They created one about the congestion charge in Manchester.
Could Dipity be the answer to the problem of trying to bring an audience up to speed on a long and complex issue? A journalist relies on the archives to remind themselves of what’s happened previously and I know from when I’ve been in newsrooms a trawl through past stories was essential. Dipity is web 2.0 completely, taking loads of information in different formats and shoving it together in an easy to follow timeline. Reminds me of those textbooks we had at school of timelines about the Tudors etc?
It’s not just journalists who could be using Dipity, charities and campaigning organisations can put an issue and its background in the spotlight and show what’s happened previously. I think the Students’ Union where I work will be hoping to use it to show the top-up fees debate, which will rear its head again in 2009 when the report is started into lifting the cap. Dipity could be fantastic at taking deep, and often political, issues and putting them into an easy to follow format. How else could it be used?
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