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Misinformed quote of the day from Dan Brown, online editor at The London Free Press in Canada:
When I graduated from journalism school in 1996, no one knew what a blog was. Heck, we still haven’t decided if blogs are journalism
Silly me, I thought we had resolved this debate and the fruitless argument of bloggers vs [...]

The BBC has upgraded its blogging software to be better able to handle the thousands of comments it receives on its array of official blogs, as BBC News blogs editor Giles Wilson explains:
It’s often been frustrating to leave comments (and also frustrating to publish them) because of slow response times. Part of the problem was [...]

I was fortunate enough to present my research on how the BBC has integrated blogging in its journalism at the Online Journalism Symposium.
The paper, The BBC Goes Blogging: Is ‘Auntie’ Finally Listening?, is available for download as a PDF.
Here’s the abstract to provide a taster of the paper:
This study examines how the world’s [...]

After a morning of discussions about hyper-local at the Online Journalism Symposium, on comes Georgia Popplewell, the managing director of GlobalVoicesOnline.org to talk about the role of this non-profit in the media environment.
She talks about Global Voices as the leading newsroom for citizen media content and its relationship with mainstream media, particularly one of [...]

I’m off to Austin, Texas, for the 2008 International Online Journalism Symposium to present a paper on the BBC’s blogging strategy during the Saturday session.
There is a promising line-up and some 200 scholars, professional journalists and media executives have registered for the event. If you can’t make it, students will be live blogging the sessions [...]

The blog network CLIQ is shutting down at the end of January. It was trying to bring bloggers together but failed to make much of an impact. The CLIQ directory on its website only lists 95 blogs.
Now that Omniture has bought its parent company, CLIQ is e-mailing members, advising them to remove its [...]

My J-school students take on blogging this week. It is one of the assignments in our core multiplatform journalism course, so they don’t really have a choice but to blog, at least for a few weeks.
Some students are enthusiastic about being freed from the constraints of the traditional news pyramid. Others see it as [...]

Blogging in journalism is one of those topics that can provoke strong emotions. Usually critics of blogs are quick to proclaim that “blogging isn’t journalism!”
This kind of debate is fruitless, as it confuses form with content. Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or radio. The content may [...]

Here are the most popular five posts during December on Reportr.net:

Creating a student journalism website on a tight budget

BBCNews.com readers criticise ’stuck on’ ads
BBC explains thinking behind new Web 2.0 homepage
How to find out anything about anyone online
The internet and social change in the Middle East

Thanks for your support over the past 12 months. I [...]

Apparently you only need to go to high school to read this blog, at least according to The Blog Readability Test..
It works out the level of education is required to understand a blog. The test also works on just about any website.
To grasp the contents of the new website of the UBC School of Journalism, [...]