Kate Griffin freelance journalism and editing

The ninth Oxford Geek Night is happening tomorrow evening at the Jericho Tavern. Both keynote speeches should be interesting for anyone involved in online publishing. I'm definitely going, if only to find out what "digital fiction" actually means.

I’ve criticised e-consultancy.com here and here for their chillingly inaccurate view on what journalists want from a website.

Earlier I criticised e-consultancy.com about an article purporting to explain what journalists look for when they come to a website. I'm going to post some constructive advice soon, but first I want to highlight the assumptions behind the article and why they're wrong.

This online guide to what journalists want sent a shiver down my spine.

It reads as if the writer has enrolled in a Victorian object lesson about journalism, but never actually met a real live journalist. It represents the newsgathering process about as well as What Women Want mapped the depths of female consciousness.

It was a nice surprise this morning to find that my first blog post for Open Salon has been promoted to the front page.

One of the many joys of blogging for me is that community boundaries aren’t defined by geography, but by shared ways of seeing the world.