The economy of not linking

This post is permanently hosted on my new blog here. So the New York Post printed a story without crediting the blogger who originally broke it – and the journalist whose byline is on the Post piece claimed it was an editorial policy not to credit blogs for scoops.

Greenbelt: print power online

This post is permanently hosted on my blog here. Forgive me, Internet. It has been one week since my last confession. In my defence I’ve been on holiday, seeing small children, visiting zoos, discussing at length the appropriate naming of Lego Star Wars characters with jetpacks and purple lightsabers (Mace Fett or Bobba Windu, we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?