Category: Weblogs
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Blogging to the future
In the CIPR workshop in London, showing everyone how easy it is to create a post with WordPress. Hot quote from participant Zena Martin: If you’re not on Twitter, you’re nowhere! Yes, we’ve been looking at Twitter, too. (I’ll be…
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All rights reserved at AP
Reading a Reuters story on their website, I noticed something that highlights to me what’s at the heart of the problem with the Associated Press. These two international news agencies seem to be poles apart in their philosophy about content…
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AP snippets and a big red flag
It’s hard to see what’s driving the thinking at the Associated Press in light of the storm of anger they have whipped up as they implement what looks to be a “pay-as-you-quote” system that you should comply with if you…
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If AP asks for help, answer the call
At a time when news is fast becoming a commodity – you don’t care so much where the news comes from as it’s the news itself you’re interested in – the behaviour of the Associated Press news agency looks distinctly…
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Happy birthday, WordPress!
Five years ago today, WordPress was born. The popular blogging platform or content management system (take your pick of description) has come a very long way in this short time. I first started using WordPress in 2005, a time when…