Journalism, PGP and Freezers

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Jamillah Knowles | 17:11 UK time, Tuesday, 12 May 2009

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Journalism is changing, not a new idea but one that many bright thinkers are considering. In Birmingham,JeeCamp09 brought a lot of those thinkers together to try and look at the situation and discussion solutions for creative and talented people who may be facing job cuts in the business. Paul Bradshaw is the organiser and he explained his vision of the near future.

More traditionally people think this will mainly affect photographers and writers, but there's a lot more to your local paper so I caught up with a couple of cartoonists. Matthew Buck and Alex Hughes also of theBloghorn were also kind enough to lend me a couple of their great pictures to show off on our page this week.

Chris Vallance 66x66 Chris Vallance returns this week to Pods and Blogs. He has spent some time with another web legend, Phil Zimmermann.

Had your head in a freezer lately? No, me either - but a lot of people have and can be found online showing the world. The man behind this rather odd movement is David Horvitz. Though this alone is not really his aim, he does have a lot of interesting things to do on his blog.

Thanks to FoxyCoxy on Flickr for his freezer pic.

Pods on Twitter If you have seen a blog or heard a podcast that you think we should know about, drop me a line at podsandblogs -at- bbc.co.uk I'd love to hear from you. Or you can follow us on Twitter.

'Til next week!
Jamillah

Outtakes

Much as we strive for perfection on Pods and Blogs - turns out wer're only human after all. Here's a few outtakes from last week's show.

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1. At 03:17am on 13 May 2009, mannmade wrote:
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2. At 08:51am on 27 May 2009, headstones wrote:
I had never through to put my head in the freezer, but hey whatever makes people happy - go for it.

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4. At 1:47pm on 13 Aug 2009, increasevertical wrote:
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5. At 09:09am on 14 Aug 2009, ravedid wrote:
Still scratching my head trying to figure out how

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6. At 09:23am on 24 Aug 2009, RKGlobal wrote:
Not a journalist myself (more like a personal injury lawyer...) but I know for a fact that increasing number of newspapers employ "mobile journalists", otherwise known as "mo-joes". I guess that would make you guys more like the "p&b-joes" of the industry...

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8. At 12:53pm on 04 Sep 2009, aaq743 wrote:
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9. At 08:24am on 06 Sep 2009, vince34 wrote:
In my opinion, journalism may have changed from what it was decades ago. In this age of computers and the modern internet, a big leap was made in the field of journalism in terms of the speed of bringing the news out to the public. However, the basics are still the essential elements that make up journalism as we know it. Job cuts may come or they might not, but writers and photographers are among those essential elements. Vince at [Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator]

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10. At 11:34am on 14 Sep 2009, JennyVidal wrote:
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11. At 07:07am on 29 Sep 2009, melanotan wrote:
With the increasing number of journalists not being able to make it because of the changing economy I wonder how many of them will turn to new media to earn more of their income? it seems everyone is feeling the effects of the economy even the melanotan & afamelanotide worlds. Now Rupert Murdoch of Newscorp fame is talking about monetizing online news by making people pay for it. It makes one wonder if those who frequent news websites are going to start turning more and more to news outlets that rely more heavily on citizen journalism? It's going to be interesting to see how Murdoch's plan pans out.

-Scott

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