Welcome to the personal blog of Dan Kerins
Dan is a journalist who likes geekery, sport and -unsurprisingly for a hack – pubs. Essentially this website is a forum for him to mess around with various web features to see how he can use them at work to best effect.
Dan has been the digital editor at the Southern Daily Echo in Southampton since early 2008. Prior to that, he spent two years as a general reporter at the The News, Portsmouth, a newspaper he joined straight from completing the NCTJ at Highbury College in Portsmouth.
In 2010, he was shortlisted for Print Journalist of the Year (Daily) at the EDF London and South Journalism Awards. In evaluating his work, the judges said:
‘Dan writes for the paper’s website. Contacts got him a strong Southampton football story, while other leads emerged from monitoring Twitter and various social media sites. 6,000 readers watched his live election night blog. His approach is different, modern and delivers the goods.’
Of course, this website is a purely personal venture and in no way reflects the opinons of any employers, past or present.
Mainly you will see posts on here about football, rugby, gadgets, games and occasionally experiments with things like AudioBoo, videos and the like. The site has existed in various forms since 2004 and has been a blog since early 2006, although 99 per cent of the content (what little there was!) has been lost due to a combination of over-eager experiments and migration.
If for some reason you feel the need to get in touch with Dan, such as news about a long lost billionare Nigerian cousin who just so happens to be on their death bed, you can either do so via the social networking links to the right, or by emailing dan[at]kerins[dot]org.
