Webweds: what I did on my holidays

This post is permanently hosted on my new blog here. I’m off work at the moment, staying with family and preparing with trepidation for a long weekend without mobile phone, internet or even laptop access. I’ve not started any big web-related projects this week,  but I have done and discovered a few interesting things.

Playing with Publish2

This post is permanently hosted on my blog here. What I ought to be doing on this blog is getting the blogroll together, but the thought of so much copying and pasting makes me feel slightly unwell. Instead, I’ve been playing with Publish2, in the hopes of making a “what I’m reading” widget for this [...]

Short is sexy

This post is permanently hosted on my blog here. I’m a fairly recent Twitter convert, and there are two main reasons I’m sticking with it. First, it’s short, and second, it’s art.

What’s in a name?

This post is permanently hosted on my new blog here. Well, I now own my own name. maryhamilton.co.uk redirects here, mary_hamilton is tweeting away, and this blog is in my name too. Eventually, I’m told, if I keep posting without devolving into mindless streams of punctuation or porn spam, my Google ranking will increase. Currently [...]

Video vs print

This post is permanently hosted on my blog here. Today the BBC reported that video adverts are going to appear in a print magazine.

Web Wednesday

This post is permanently hosted on my new blog here. I was trying to rewrite my CV the other day to make it skills-based when I realised how lopsided it is.

Branding

This post is permanently hosted on my new blog here. If you’re interested in personal development as a journalist, I’d really recommend taking a bit of time to read the first post in Adam Westbrook’s 6×6 series – and, I imagine, all the others too once they’re up. It’s on branding yourself online and in [...]

NCE results

Changing newsrooms demand new skills, but exams are still demanding old ones. Are trainees stuck between a rock and a hard place?

Pointless babble

When is talking not talking? When it’s pointless babble, according to the authors of a study that would like most people to Twitter differently.

A link to begin with – 12 things multimedia journalists should do

If newspapers are going to follow Mashable’s advice about how to survive, the journalists who write them are going to have to change the way they operate. What can reporters on the ground take from business advice?