Dan Griffiths

Church of St Thomas Beckett, Romney Marsh - 2I April 2025.

Church of St Thomas Beckett, Romney Marsh - 2I April 2025.

10 Best HARO & Connectively Alternatives (Since it Shut Down) I’m sure you’ve read it everywhere: HARO (Help a Reporter Out) is dead. As of Dec. 9, 2024, its “replacement,” Connectively, has shut down. In reality, it was never really a “replacement” for journali...

More good content from @vincenero.bsky.social on the BuzzStream blog - here he is with 10 Best HARO & Connectively Alternatives (#6 is my fave 😉): www.buzzstream.com/blog/haro-co...

Some data on this: Of the top 200 most prolific journalist users of journorequest on X in the last few years I've found 48 that have a presence on Bluesky today (and some of these have not posted and are just holding accounts).

Hi Rob - Dot Star Media (which I am involved with) offer a completely free alerting service to charities who want an easy and time efficient way of monitoring these hashtags on here and the other place. More info: dotstar.media/charities/

Screenshot of a google search for 'media request service'

Google search results can be a little wacky these days what with their weird love for old Reddit posts and AI slop. But, fair play to them, they got results from this query for 'media request service' right ✅😜 #digitalpr #seo

Hi Max - this is a list of UK news publisher 'main accounts' which you can pin and then dip into for an aggreagated news stream by created date.

bsky.app/profile/dots...

(From the Twitter Archive #1)

Deep in my valley is a tree so old it makes my bones ache. There are only a handful like it in the country, and its boughs harbour some of our oldest stories.

Yet almost no-one has ever seen it. 🧵

and these look real, but are not yet verified domains:

bsky.app/profile/kent...

bsky.app/profile/chan...

bsky.app/profile/then...

bsky.app/profile/priv...

bsky.app/profile/bigi...

these two?

The Economist
bsky.app/profile/econ...

New Statesman
bsky.app/profile/news...

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there are feeds that attempt to replicate 'trending' which you can pin, e.g. bsky.app/profile/tren...

We'll probably see quite a bit of request cross-posting between here and X for a while, but a mass migration certainly does feels a possibility in these heady days of Bluesky having a moment.

Bluesky screenshot showing a JournoRequest feed navigation shortcut.

#journorequest isn’t busy on here right now, but if it’s something you monitor on X, this JournoRequest feed might become helpful in the future. It shows a feed of recent posts containing 'JournoRequest' or 'MediaRequest’, excluding Reposts, Replies and Duplicates.
Feed: bsky.app/profile/dots...

nice piece. "we’re all drinking from separate water fountains" - it does feel like we're on a pathway that entrenches polarisation. Up the floaters!

A pair of green woodpeckers looking for ants on a freshly cut lawn

A pair of green woodpeckers looking for ants on the garden lawn #birds

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