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January 27, 2012 Alan Jones, enigmatist, learning, magic, magic 4 learning, Mathematical Magic, NLP, pseudoscience, psychic entertainment, social media, social networks No comments

One of the things I wanted to do this year was to make sure that I kept up to date with my on-line writing…. heck if I want to develop as a blogger I need to blog.

Anyone who has caught some of my posts will have noticed that they are often eclectic, generally rambling and often opinionated! I would also hope some are mildly entertaining too…

In the past my blogging attempts have been somewhat scattered and so I chose to create different blogs for different audiences. At the start of 2012 I decided to pull the various strands together in the following blogs. Hopefully this help help those of you who stumble across this blog to find something from my interests which match yours.

This blog  (AlanBJones.com)will largely be about the news, views and events that I want to make some kind of personal comment about.

The following blogs will serve a very specific purpose:-

The Rational Mystic (TheRationalMystic.com) will feature posts that are in he most part sceptical but also maintain a link to the subjective nature of personal experience.

The Real Twilight Zone (TheRealTwilightZone.com) will host the radio show of the same name which is presented through Penwith Radio. TRTZ is the podcast which is the voice of Rational Mysticism

Alan Jones Magic and Mentalism Blog (AlanJonesMagic.net) features comments, thoughts and reviews from the world of magic and conjuring – one of my main professional interests.

Alan Jones Transforming Minds (MindAlignment.com) this is the focus of my NLP and Transpersonal Psychology work.

Alan Jones Education (AlanJonesEducation.com) features posts about my work in Teaching, Learning and Behaviour Management

References to NLP and related topics can be found on my Inspire NLP blog (InspireNLP.co.uk)

Finding Your Business Edge (FindingYourBusinessEdge.com) is the blog that is linked to my business coaching programme on Penwith Radio.

Alan Jones Radio (AlanJonesRadio,com) and Al Jones Music (AlJonesMusic.com) will feature show notes and show from the radio and some of my excursions into songwriting and music respectively.

And that, for the moment, is that. It is my ambition that by the end of February 2012 all of these blogs will be up and running with regular content updates.

For the moment the key blogs will be The Real Twilight Zone, The Rational Mystic, my educational, transforming minds, magic and radio blogs as these link to my work directly.

Of course this blog will continue to feature thoughts, reflections, comments and ideas.

I hope you will be able to visit some of my other blogs and, if they are of interest subscribe to them, and if appropriate, the newsletters listed on them.

Until next time

 

Alan

websites of interest:

www.aljones.net

www.alanjonesmagic.com

www,inspireNLP.com

www.magic4learning.com

www.penwithradio.co.uk

 

 

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Envoi – Death of the Newspaper

June 17, 2009 media, News, newspapers, social media, twitter No comments
As if to echo some of the sentiment of my previous post, the speed of the press versus the instant nature of the social media community has been highlghted in the recent Iranian elections…

“Anyone watching Twitter trends over the last few days would have noticed the hashtag #CNNFail up there toward the top. Why? Because CNN and other major news media
failed to pick up and report on the severity of the turmoil surrounding the Iranian elections. In the mean time, Twitter’s #IranElection, Tehran, Mousavi, Ahmadinejad trends were fire hoses of real-time information, videos, and pictures…..”

http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-iran/

Twitter in particular does have role to play in the ‘news’ and it many respects it’s unedited and thus partisan leanings provide for on-the-ground and in-the-moment commentary. Of course as readers of Tweets we need to recognised the non-rgeulated nature of these feeds but that surely is a good thing, especially since it can be argued that many large newspapers are hardly free from their political affiliatons.

No of course not everyone is a Twitter addict and large portions of the population are getting their news from TV and printed press… but the trend seems to be away from these forms. Mr Browns recent statement that “broadband” will be(?) – should be? – as comman a fixture as other utilities does suggest that this trend will continue.

The argument is not about ‘journalists’ per se, but about how they publish and promte their pieces… and perhaps where and how they collect their information.

To close, and keeping on topic, I am a regular listener of the Guardian’s Technical Podcast. This is one example of where a traditional news porvider is embracing new technology. It engages with its audience through blogs, flicker and facebook and responds to ‘news’ . The clever thing is that it also promotes specific articles within the ‘printed’ publication as well as signpposting to premium content. Vey clever and very astute marketing, promotion and branding.

Alan

 
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