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Earlier today a much more popular blogger than me Bucky Turco, posted about the major embarrassment of Hip Hop website RapRadar.com accidentally posting rap supremo Paul Rosenberg's email address. Rosenberg manages the biggest rapper on the planet, Eminem, you may have heard of him.He also runs owns RapRadar.com which brings me to my point which Turco seems to have missed. If you are a

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It is quite possible that journalism has entered a virtual world where the brand of an individual has the potential to be as powerful as the brand of a multi national. Martin Lewis and Robert Peston are perhaps the two most obvious examples of this. They have become the go-to-pundits for money saving and impending financial doom respectively.What do these two have in common? Besides an in-depth

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This took a couple of weeks for Eva and I to put together but finally here it is. There's a lot of talk in the online world about how this web 2.0 malarkey is going to change the way journalists work. You could read about it on thousands of blog posts or you could just watch this.

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This last week the web has been coming into quite a bit of conflict with the law. The cases of Baby P and the leaked BNP list raise questions for how our legal system safeguards information in a world where it changes hands so rapidly with only minimal accountability. In both cases information that is potentially damaging to people involved has found its way into the public domain in spite of

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Ever wanted to hear famous show tunes played by a group of accordions? Well that's exactly what you can get at the Millennium Centre on 16 November. I went to have a chat with Swansea Accordion Orchestra last night for alt.Cardiff and they were both highly entertaining and welcoming.

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It’s a question that seems to become more pertinent by the day: is the blog sphere now setting the media agenda or is it just reacting to the stories of the mainstream media?This week we have seen a good example that could be used to make either point. The hysteria induced by Jonathan Ross and Russel Brand’s calls to Andrew Sachs would, on the surface, appear to be a case of public outcry fuelled

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‘A picture is worth 1000 words.’ At least that’s how the saying goes. So how many words does a video say; or stills plus voiceover; or interactive clickable maps containing video, pictures and audio? It all depends what you’re trying to say I guess. Journalists are in the business of telling stories and, more often than not, telling them efficiently. So anything that says 1000 words while keeping

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Is the idea of networked journalism really so different? Has it not always been the case that “professional journalists” have sought to maintain a set of contacts in their given specialism? Have these contacts not always informed the journalist's reports as either source, specialist or outspoken viewer? Sure the internet has made this process more fluid and we now have an instant means of

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There is much to be said for and against the democratic potential of web 2.0. Now the masses own the means of productions what’s to stop them really taking over? The potential is clear but the situation is unprecedented, so it’s not possible to be sure how it’ll affect things.There is however a very important political event on the horizon and its interesting to note how the world of web 2.0 is

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