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Police – But They Need a Film Crew
I was woken this morning by very loud banging noises coming from outside. Low and behold it was the police knocking down a door to a house they had raided a few months ago. But today was different, they had a film crew in tow. Now I don’t know the law. As I understand it [...]
Associated Press iPhone Push
Well it finally arrived. The Associated Press iPhone app. The difference with this app is that is has push functionality. “Push functionality, wtf is that Ern?” you ask. Push functionality means that the app does not have to be open for it to update you of something happening. In the case of The Associated Press [...]
Twitter and My Backwards Newspaper
I have emailed my local newspaper for the last few months asking them if they will set up a Twitter account.
To date my local newspaper, The Didcot Herald has not even graced me with an answer.
Today I found the email addresses of all the staff and sent them all this email:
Hello I thought I may [...]
The Printed Blog
We are all aware of the newspapers and printing world are haemorrhaging jobs on a daily basis. Well how is this for a cool idea. The Printed Blog are now using these newspaper skills to take user generated content and provide a printed newspaper.
Just imagine your blog, your picture, your music or anything you have created [...]
Twitter – Is The UK Catching Up?
Today I was sat watching the BBC’s Working Lunch, when out of the blue they mentioned Twitter.
We all know that the US news channels all have Twitter accounts and loads of their newspapers Tweet on Twitter.
I emailed my local newspaper and asked if they would be tweeting local news. Guess what, no reply. UK media/news [...]