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Listen to this blog’s posts
So I signed up to automatic podcast generator Odiogo. The result: a podcast feed for all of my posts. Useful for accessibility – and recommended on that basis if nothing else. The automated reading of...
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Are your comments invisible? How about your website?
If your news organisation uses javascript for its comments, or for any other part of the site, you may well be advised to start doing some testing. Malcolm Coles, the Editor of Which.co.uk, has been...
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Removing Nofollow on blog links and meta – and invisible comments
A couple months ago I installed a plugin on the blog that meant search engines would index links in comments: by default WordPress uses ‘nofollow‘ on comments to stop spammers abusing them to boost...
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“This is him here”: Laura Kuenssberg and the ethics of social linking
This week Twitter got angry. Again. It was angry because BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg identified the father of a sick baby who confronted the prime minister as a political activist, embedding...
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The third edition of the Online Journalism Handbook is now out!
A new, third, edition of the Online Journalism Handbook is now out. A comprehensive update to the 2017 second edition, it sees the addition of a new chapter on writing for email and chat. There are...
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