adrian monck

Month: February 2008

  • Prince Harry: how news travels

    On 7 January, 2008, an Australian magazine reports: Prince Harry has joined his regiment on a covert mission to Afghanistan and his unit has already seen front line action. Not seen in public since the middle of December, New Idea can exclusively reveal that despite opposition from senior members of the British government and the…

  • Studying User Generated Content – the need for speed

    You know when people are being mean. They always say use a title. Telegraph communities ed Shane Richmond takes issue with Neil Thurman’s – make that Mr Thurman’s – study on UGC, which is available here. He calls it flawed. It isn’t flawed, of course. It was done at a certain point in time and…

  • How to save local news…

    Community is just another way of expressing shared interest. In the media those shared interests can cross political and state boundaries (for example business news, some sports and pornography). But where they can’t cross those boundaries is in politics itself. If you want to get people interested in politics you have to create a shared…

  • The barriers to user-generated content

    My colleague at City University, Neil Thurman, has published his latest study on user-generated content (UGC). You can read a pre-press version on his webpage. The headlines?UGC is being held back by: 1. Legal liabilities – publish and be damned. 2. Moderation costs – “80 per cent of the user generated content initiatives launched by…