Well, things are busy and paid stuff must always come first. Paid work being my various Jewish sites including SomethingJewish, DailyJews and other sites.

Lots of expansion for them over the coming months.

But as always, if you want to email me asking some questions or need some advice, then drop me an email.

A recent entry by Foster commented on an article by the editor of India Today, which itself is very spot on.

Aroon Purie, an elder statesman of Indian journalism and the man who’s edited the magazine for all of those 30 years, finds himself looking forward to the next three decades and speculates on what they might hold.

“Today teens and twenty-somethings don’t consider editors and reporters to be god-like figures from above telling them what’s important,” he writes, “A growing number don’t want news presented as gospel. They would like to engage and even question journalists in more extended discussions.

“News will become a commodity and journalists will have to be masters in their areas of expertise, ready to be held accountable … These are exciting times … there will be enormous change but what will not die is the art of story-telling in whichever form it comes. Compelling, well-told stories will always have a market.”

So what will you be seeing from Journalistic.co.uk

Probably a few more regular updates.

Also, a new look for Journalistic.co.uk

Want to contribute? Then get in touch.

For the last few years, small flash drives which are no bigger than a pack of chewing gum have become an essential way for people to move their data from one computer to another. They provide a great way to show photos at a family gathering or share other important files with others without the need to complicate the process of saving data for sharing.

A few years back, 128MB was considered quite a powerful flash drive, these days with the advances of technology, its 1GB that you should be getting. And it’s no ordinary flash drive you should consider. The way to go it to make sure it is U3 enabled.

U3 is new technology that has been adopted by many flash drive manufacturers including Kingston Technology and Verbatim.

Through U3, people can take data on the move and even more clever that standard flash drives is that U3 technology allows users to sync files between their computer and the flash drive.

It means that when you are on the move you can connect the flash drive to any PC and that PC will then show your personal setting and files. As soon as you remove you flash drive, that PC will no longer have your data. Ideal for those who are on the move.

Even better of course is that you take your personal setting of software and its applications with you. For example, if you have a Skype account for making phonecalls, then by putting Skype onto your flash drive, whenever you are on a computer you just insert your flash drive and your Skype settings are exactly the same as you home or office computer. All your history is stored.

The technology built-in to U3 also means that you can set up password protection to stop unautorised access to data on the flash drive.

For a 1GB drive, expect to pay around £50.

Both Kingston Technology and Verbatim offer 1GB devices.

Kingston’s U3 Datatraveler is ultra-slim and very stylish. It offers everything you expect from a flash drive and comes with a five year warranty.

Verbatim is slightly larger that Kingston and comes with McAfee anti-virus which means everything is auotmatically scanned before its is stored on your flash drive.

Of course, regardless of what software comes with the flash drive, you can install almost anything you want and that includes other virus checkers. There’s also a version of the Firefox web browser available that can be installed on the device and whenever you use it all the setting are stored.

If you are looking for a flash drive for home or office, then make sure it is U3 enabled as over time you will certainly be able to do much more than standard flash drives.

Related links:

Kingston Technology

U3

MediaGuardian reports:

Advertising guru Sir Martin Sorrell has told newspapers to start charging more for online content to rescue falling revenues. The WPP boss said it was “very strange” and “bizarre” that so much content is available for free on the internet.

He writes:

The Department of Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire has joined forces with UK regional newspaper group Johnston Press to establish the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism.

Details about the post are at www.uclan.ac.uk/other/hr/jobs/external.htm

JP are funding the post - the first of its kind in the UK - a clear example of a traditional media player now thinking outside the box.

The Department says this Chair would suit either a practitioner with a track record of published high quality analysis or an academic interested in applied research in this area.

For infomal discussions about the position, contact Head of Department Mike Ward on:
TEl: +44 (0) 1772 894731
Email: meward@uclan.ac.uk

BBC reports its own story:

Steve Herrmann has become the new editor of BBC News Interactive, which publishes the BBC News website and Ceefax teletext service. Mr Herrmann was previously World Editor of the department, which also produces interactive TV news and digital text.

web site is at www.digitaluk.co.uk

But of course, try entering just digitaluk.co.uk

Looks like another one has not set up their server correctly.

Site appears to be hosted by the BBC and is on their servers.

So how much did a site like that cost? How do they manage to forget something really important like setting up the server correctly?

How many people will think the site does not exist by leaving up a Red Hat Linux test page?

The New York Times’ early success suggests people are prepared to pay on the web and offers another model for newspaper executives round the world to ponder. The paper has said that half the subscribers to TimesSelect had signed up on the back of print subscriptions, while the other half were online-only customers.

The service, which costs $49.95 a year or $7.95 a month, offers exclusive online access to the paper’s columnists and its archives.

Well, check this out. It’s from the future!