Archive for January, 2007
Jan31st2007
Should we leave multi-media to the photo department?
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Should we leave multi-media to the photo department?: "
As we all know, multi-media is the way of the future. We've heard time and time again, but should reporters jump on that band wagon, or should we just leave it to the photo gurus? Audio slideshows (you'll remember we call them ASS's) are naturally very visual. [...]
Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
WSJ Gets Print Edition RSS Feeds
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WSJ Gets Print Edition Feeds: "The Wall Street Journal has added a bunch more RSS feeds. This includes feeds for each section of the print edition of the paper." Again, I don't get why every newspaper and magazine hasn't started to offer this. Props to the Journal.
(Via Micro Persuasion.)
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Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
PEW report: Tagging
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Tagging: "
28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts.
(Via Pew Internet and American Life Project: Front Page.)
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Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
Meet Orlando Sentinel's new A.M. news team
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Orlando Sentinel's new A.M. news team: "The Orlando Sentinel has created a new 'A.M. news teamh' -- a group of reporters, visual journalists, editors and Web producers whose job it is to update OrlandoSentinel.com early in...
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Jan31st2007
Ann Moore Sees Time Inc.'s Digital Future
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Ann Moore Sees Time Inc.'s Digital Future: "Next week People will add a celebrity database to its website, with over 100 profiles updated in real time. When the 2007 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue comes out on Feb. 14, Time Warner sibling AOL will post its first tied-in swimsuit-buying guide. And Life magazine is about to [...]
Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
Scripps Selects Kaango to Provide Online Classifieds Platform
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Jan31st2007
Yahoo! Inc.'s online news site generated 50 percent more revenue from advertising last year than in 2005.
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Reason was new video content that drew visitors.
Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
The New Media Mogul—You
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What do Blinkx, Magnify.net, Splashcast, Panjea, Eyejot, Vringo, and BUZ have in common? They aim to give consumers control of their own media.
Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
Call It MyNewspaperSpace
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Call It MyNewspaperSpace: "LAS VEGAS -- As stodgy old newspapers begin to think of themselves in digital terms, they're increasingly looking to MySpace -- the unedited, consumer-generated and not-infrequently-profane social-networking site purchased by News Corp. in 2005 -- as an unlikely role model."
(Via Advertising Age - MediaWorks.)
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Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
More visual newspapers?
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Poynter asks: More visual newspapers?
At the invitation-only Digital Life Design conference in Munich John Naisbitt, author of the 1988 bestseller 'Megatrends.' insisted that newspapers aren’t visual enough for the standards of modern day culture."
"When we talk about the death of newspapers, we are talking about the death of a [...]
Published January 31st, 2007
Jan31st2007
News War: PBS Frontline Examines the Future of News
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Jan30th2007
Newspapers Discover the Web
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Newspapers may finally be figuring out a way to harness a true asset: local, well-branded websites.
Published January 30th, 2007
Jan30th2007
Why don’t more journalists use newsreaders?
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You need new skills. If you're a journalist and you're not using RSS, you're ceding an advantage to your competiton (Hint: this item appears courtesy of an RSS feed . . )
Published January 30th, 2007
Jan30th2007
Newspapers lose ground in Web-savvy schools: study
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"Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records," one teacher said in the study
Published January 30th, 2007
Jan30th2007
New York Times hires fired LATimes editor as Washington Bureau Chief
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New York Times editor on Dean Baquet: "Standing up to Tribune only adds to his luster."
Published January 30th, 2007
Jan30th2007
Another top job - Multimedia Producer-Time.com - Time
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Create special TIME.com packages and multimedia features including video... "
(Via Indeed.com.)
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Jan30th2007
Job of the week: Multimedia Editor - The Wall Street Journal
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Multimedia Editor - The Wall Street Journal Online - New York, NY: "s seeking a multimedia editor to produce multimedia stories, digitize film, write captions and research supplementary material for the site. The multimedia..."
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Jan30th2007
Humbly Show Off your Portfolios
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Humbly Show Off With Humble Voice: "think MySpace, but with a pleasant facelift and being overall more versatile. Essentially, it’s a social network for the creative type where users can show off their work, build a portfolio, and connect with friends and family"
(Via Solution Watch.)
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Published January 30th, 2007
Jan30th2007
Footnote - The place for original documents online
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Find original historic documents.
Published January 30th, 2007
Jan30th2007
Use low-cost cameras to file video reports from the field
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The low-cost Web video system for reporters system was showcased with live field reports from the World Newspaper Congress ...
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Published January 30th, 2007
Jan29th2007
Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years
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Bill Gates "More and more viewers will abandon broadcast TV"
Published January 29th, 2007
Jan29th2007
Murdoch: Big media has less sway on Internet
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Rupert Murdoch: "We can't reverse it."
Published January 29th, 2007
Jan29th2007
Fredericksburg, Va. redesign is on the street
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Print :: Fredericksburg, Va., to redesign Jan. 29 (reply): "charles apple writes . . . The redesign is on the street.
FREDERICKSBURG, BEFORE:
FREDERICKSBURG, AFTER:
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Jan29th2007
Newspaper group launches ultra-local community websites
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UK: Trinity Mirror launches ultra-local CitJ websites: "
Trinity Mirror has launched five citizen journalism micro-sites, as a test launch of what could become a widespread feature on the group’s newspaper websites. "
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Jan29th2007
American Journalism Review profiles the amazing Mr. Adrian Holovaty.
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People with Web development expertise aren't usually drawn to news, Holovaty says, because they don't think it's a technologically savvy field.
Published January 29th, 2007
Jan29th2007
Readers Call Newspapers. These Are Their Stories. - New York Times
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The San Francisco Chronicle is posting some of the voice mail messages left for reporters and editors as audio files on its Web site,
Published January 29th, 2007
Jan29th2007
Blog Traffic Grows, and It’s Mostly Male - New York Times
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The Washington Post announced that it would be adding three new blogs.
Published January 29th, 2007
Jan27th2007
Multimedia recording microphone for iPod Nano
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MicroMemo microphone for iPod Nano: "
Here's away to sneak an iPod Nano into your multimedia budget. For field interviews, spontaneous brilliant thoughts, impromptu podcasts . . . whatever. MicroMemo from Japanese company Marubeni Infotech Japan, saves as high or low quality WAV files which means an 8GB Nano can potentially hold 51 hours [...]
Published January 27th, 2007
Jan26th2007
What's is after video, multimedia and interactivity? Databases, baby.
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The next step after multimedia and interactivity? Just add data.: "
When I find myself face to screen with an online news site that is still in the Nightly Shovelware Posting stage, I think of two things: How can I add multimedia to this, and how can I add interactivity to'this.
I think a lot of [...]
Published January 26th, 2007
Jan26th2007
Internet Video Audience Reaches Critical Mass
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Internet Video Audience Reaches Critical Mass: "The audience for Internet video has reached a critical mass, offering advertisers and television programmers lucrative opportunities, according to Nielsen Analytics.
Highlights of the the company’s research:
There has been no measurable negative impact on traditional television viewing.
Video on PCs and iPods is expanding the audience of traditional TV programs.
Viewers prefer [...]
Published January 26th, 2007
Jan26th2007
January 2007: The death of newspapers?
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Telegraph Blogs: Technology: Shane Richmond: January 2007: The death of newspapers?: "'By the time today's youth reach the age when they would normally become regular newspaper readers they will have been exposed to a totally different media experience.'"
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Published January 26th, 2007
Jan26th2007
Mar 25-30 2007 Multimedia Training at Berkeley
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The application deadline for this workshop is Feb 23, 2007.
Published January 26th, 2007
Jan26th2007