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Oops, that hurts.
Our friend Ben Rooney has spotted the The Cold, Hard Numbers Of What’s Happening To Newspapers. If you’re in the print business, this could hurt.
Branding is the key
Branding, weither it’s online or in real life, has become one the key factors of your success, whatever your line of business is. There’s a blog of a Latvian branding expert I would recommend to you: Rue Archimede. Not yet Seth Godin but on his way.
Online editorial models #02 – Link journalism
Do you remember the first link you published on Internet? It may well have been by using Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Or a text editor in which you were coding in html – those were the days you were wild and crazy. It should come as no surprise that this very simple act – posting a [...]
Future of journalism according to Google News’ founder
The creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat, shares his views on the future of journalism in the next five years in a video spotted by Zee on TNW Google.
Online editorial models #1: Ours
In a small bunch of posts, I’d like to explore and share my thoughts about the current online editorial models and what they could bring to the European Parliament online editorial strategy. Yep, that will be a hazardous process in progress, with no real structure and random assertions. That’s what blogging is about, after all? [...]
Behind the screen – Open day on May, 8th
If you ever wondered if we look as good IRL as in our videos and photos, if you’d like to know more about the way we work, where you can find the EP online and if you happen to pass by Brussels this Saturday, May 8th – then you definetely should come and meet us [...]
A new girl in town
Our fellow social-media colleagues at the European Commission (yes, THE Commission) just opened a blog (yes, a BLOG) called “Waltzing Matilda”. Why waltzing? Why Matilda? Why a blog? All answers in their first post. We say Hi to Matilda.
It’s the ash cloud, stupid! – considerations on an unusual event. (Updated)
Update on Sunday 18 April – 15h Riga Time I was at Riga Airport again this morning because, guess what?, my rebooked flight has been cancelled again. I want to underline how Air Baltic people are professional and nice. The situation, in terms of mess, has positively evolved: line was only 45 minutes long. There [...]
It’s the iPad, stupid!
Now that the device is on sale, the dust has settled a bit and only Europeans (and the rest of the non-US world) are still kept on their toes until beginning of May (when the iPad will be available in stores outside the USA), I’d like to share quick thoughts about what was going on [...]
Reforming the EP? – a digital debate
EUDO is an observatory based in Florence interested in European democracy. They are setting up a discussion café on various EU democracy issues. Their first post is on the question of how to reform the European Parliament and is written by the eminent English professor Peter Mair. They would like to engage every EU interested people [...]
Good read
If you ever want to become a good web-writer, you’ll find inspiration in this funny and very well written text.
What do editors do?
Back to basics: we were surprised by some internal comments regarding the workload of our team of editors. Outside of our beloved 1st and 2nd floors, it seems most of our colleagues don’t have a clue what we’re doing. Yeah, we’re the “Web-guys and girls” and it doesn’t sound that tiring. Well, time for a reality check.
Facebook login
Here’s a nice experiment: go and read this article on Read, Write Web. Don’t forget to read the comments – it’s essential. Then come back. So? Yep, I was too. This teaches that users surf on the web via Google – not via their bookmarks nor their URL bar. They search, they click. It happened with [...]
Farm content
I imagined it could exist but I under-suspected the scale of it. Read this article by the NY Times (of course) about a company who provides content to everyone on the net, creating literal “farm content” where free-lancers are under-paid to write about everything search engines are spotting as commonly sought or of interest for [...]
A case study: new Diesel campaign
Last weekend, I discovered the new Diesel communication campaign in Next, the monthly supplement of French newspaper “Libération.” Fashion is a crowded industry where brands fight each other to get customers’ attention and, eventually, preferences. That means the money to buy a pair of used jeans. In terms of communication, it is often a creative field and, [...]
Subscribe!
Following a reader’s suggestions, we added a “Subscribe to comments” feature thanks to an easy-enough-to-install Word Press plug-in. So, whenever you leave a comment under one of our posts, you can now subscribe to the thread and be informed whenever someone else replies to you or adds another comment. Oh, and let us know if [...]
Happy birthday!
Blogging portal.eu agregates the best of euroblogging and, yes, sometimes they featured us on their top page. They celebrate their first birthday and “more than 500 euroblogs, 25 editors and thousands of visitors! ” Happy birthday and long live Blogging Portal.eu!
Live streaming – sorry, PC only.
In this post, we address a situation we’re not happy with: our live video streams are only accessible to users with a PC (or with Windows OS). Warning: this is a geeky post and half of it may be unnacurate.
Not the 8 o’clock news
The process of the hearings of designated commissionners, which starts today and will go on until Tuesday 19 January, gives me a good opportunity to illustrate some of the biggest difficulties in our job as web-editors for the European Parliament website.
Take that, Britney!
Just passing by to say that Steve’s post on helping us in rethinking the EP website is now the most viewed, far front of our previous record: “Sex, porn and Britney Spear“. Take that, Britney! Now, I can talk to my mom about this blog.
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