Media monitoring

I've been meaning to talk more about my job, about what it involves, and given this is something I'm doing at home, on a computer with a LJ client, here's something.

Media monitoring is something we've just started recently at UD; the main aim is so that if there's a news story that we should comment on as soon as possible, we can do so, but it's also there for stuff we may just want to blog about, and to keep us aware of what's going on.

There's a rota for who does it which day. It needs to be done by 9am on that day, and you can't start it before midnight as quite a few newspapers dump a large number of stories onto their website at midnight (presumably about when the papers are going to print, keeping them published on the same day as the physical version is released.

I choose to do it after midnight rather than before nine, as I'm more of a night owl than a morning person. This does, however, mean I'm often distracted whilst doing it by chatting to friends or similar.

Below the cut is the stories I sent to the office today, along with a timeline of how long it took me. In terms of 'What do we do about it', my advice was that nothing was urgent to respond to, but we might want to blog or otherwise comment on the Mandelson lobbying transparency ducking.

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And now? A hot chocolate, then bed.

Interesting Links for 31-01-2012

• The picture that shames Italy - Europe - World - The Independent
  2 Roma kids drown (lifeguards tried to save them). Then, everyone got back to sunbathing and swimming, the bodies still there.
  (tags: posttofacebook children racism culture Italy water sea death interesting )
• 100 years of political posters from the provocative to the downright dishonest - mirror.co.uk
  (tags: Westminster UK politics design culture image interesting )
• New, horribly restrictive byelaws for Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square Garden
  No tents/sleeping bags is an arguable one. No public speaking? That I disagree with. "Any objection to the confirmation of the Byelaws may be made by letter addressed to Carl Schnackenberg, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH, or by email to: Carl.Schnackenberg@Culture.gsi.gov.uk. "
  (tags: wtf protest freedom London politics interesting )

Ahhhh, Legend of the Five Rings

The honourable samurai of the Unicorn clan are seeking their horses, stolen by bandits.

So far, it's not going so well.

This may be due to one Bushi eating hallucinogenic mushrooms every night, another sticking random herbs in his pipe and getting stoned off them, and the third (with no actual artistic or caligraphic skill) tattooing his arm with an oath of vengeance against the aforementioned

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