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using “Twitter to turn my notetaking process into live coverage
1. Use a separate Twitter account to post live coverage
2. Use Friendfeed for backup.
3. Tell your Twitter followers about Friendfeed
4. Alert your regular Twitter posse -
“So, what’s the new business model of the future, besides laying off 40 employees? Oh I know, laying off 40 more 6 months from now. Got it.”
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In a case of - we realise someone does it better than us, but we can serve our readers well by acknowledging that, Chicago Tribune “silently released a new “(beta test)” feature, an EveryBlock-enabled police blotter”
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Good to see Connecting Up 08 conference material is online.
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I’m really liking this 10,000 words…should have been onto it earlier
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More good stuff
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Amy Gahran: I use Twitter to turn my notetaking process into live coverage for interested people.
links to Romenesko -
“Overall, I love the idea of asking for input from young journalists, and I think many of the ideas they came up with are pretty cool! I’ll be excited to discover what comes of this.”
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To consider-if a digital native can’t craft content, can they complain about their lack of influence?
“That’s certainly a core theme, that newsrooms are cutting into their meat and bone, leaving them with tech-savvy but journalistically immature staff…”
links for 2008-07-24
July 24th, 2008 — Delicious
links for 2008-07-23
July 23rd, 2008 — Delicious
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“The Brisbane Media Map is a comprehensive guide to Brisbane’s Media and Creative Industries, offering information about businesses, service providers, communities and regulators.”
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“No wacky morphing tools here; just the features journalists need”
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“In this digital age it is a must that every journalist have a personal website that demonstrates [their] work. [these] are incorporating interactivity, blogs, video, audio, photos [..] which speak volumes more than traditional résumés”
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“…photos of young women in bikinis. Traffic skyrocketed. But that performance indicator wasn’t consistent with the goal of the site - to build a consistent local audience using the Web site for utility”
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LoJo:important emerging frontier for media content and services that [.] local media ignore at their peril
* Web-based mapping tech becoming simpler
* Mobile phones gaining”location awareness”
* market for car-based navigation systems growing fast -
Snap. This is the only decent comeback I’ve seen yet.
via Romenesko
“Adam Lashinsky fired back: ‘In the old school, we like to get it right the first time.’ “ -
“Highway Africa, which has become the biggest annual gathering of African journalists and has a strong element of how technology is changing journalism. A key theme this year is citizen journalism.”
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“but any news organization without a developing mobile strategy is toast. Among other things, I expect this will flatten or otherwise significantly change the online usage curve we see at news sites where the peak happens during daytime office hours.”
A wending path does lead
July 23rd, 2008 — News, Online, SMO, Social Networking
As the internet leads a wending path, a range of discussions (starting with Jeff Jarvis and on to Stilgherrian’s comments section) brought me to news.com.au’s live Twitter coverage of the pope at WYD08 on http://twitter.com/popedownunder.
I like the live Twitter event coverage (as a personal effort instead of just a pushed RSS feed).
The Twitter account web link was to news.com.au’s in-depth WYD08 coverage page, linking to their What’s on when? page, with an embedded Google map.
Follow that through to the same Google map, full sized, showing, amongst other things, pilgrimage routes, papal motorcade and boat-a-cade routes, and locations for mass.
The creator of that map, news.com.au journalist Alexandra Marceau, has also created 58 other news maps for individual stories. What’s great about creating a map for an individual story is that it’s a mapped record of that story, available through a permanent list of user-created maps.
Obviously, you say, but I’ve been in the habit of giving a quick search-generated map reference link to online for a news story, one that simply points to the intersection where said news event took place, for example. That’s not a permanent record, and doesn’t extend the news into the “user-generated content” section searchable within Google Maps. Creating individually annotated news maps is something I’ll consider doing from now on, time permitting.
It would also be much better if I could mash up a geotagged rss feed with Google Maps to automatically show news down to the street, or at least suburb, level. That’s something I would still like to work on, again, time permitting.
Mind you, somebody much smarter than me is probably already doing that.
links for 2008-07-22
July 22nd, 2008 — Delicious
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“Asia added 40mm [PC] Internet users in the past year. Europe added 17mm. Latin America added 10mm. Africa and the Middle East added more than North America.”
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From NYT:
“Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, and most of them have smaller news staffs, according to a new study.” -
Get linked in to some personal training at these invaluable sites:
1.TreeHouse Media Project
2.Wired Journalists
3.Reporters’ Cookbook
4.Current.tv’s producer training
5.Online Journalism Review’s ‘How-To’ Guides
6.Ourmedia: Learning Center
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Myspace: “Do NOT turn me into Friendster!”
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Lou Ureneck..BostonUni..said change in focus “is a strategic move not driven by lack of demand but(by)a revenue model that is broken.”
85% of dailies surveyed cut newsroom staff in last 3yrs - More cutbacks..have taken place since the survey ended in Q108 -
Link to the full report
links for 2008-07-21
July 21st, 2008 — Delicious
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“Nairobi is home to a digital brew that invites optimism about its chances for creating unusual innovations. The city has relatively few wired phone lines or networked personal computers, so mobile phones are the essential digital tool. “
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How important is comprehensible data presentation to new journalism?
“visualisation is a way to turn usually a lot of numbers into images, so you can look at all the data that you have at the same time and try to see patterns - or interesting trends…” -
“we MUST understand and then embrace the notion that print is no longer our primary focus.
..reporters chained to desks working with large desktop computers..so last century..Transition them to laptops..get them out of the newsroom and into the community” -
It’s big call, but tempered by:
“one of the most important jobs to be done is not information creation— but retrieval. ..point to the best of it as soon as it’s available..Do that work for your readers-finding good stuff fast, and they’ll never leave yo -
“..the same, tired old ground. The new “participatory”&“citizen journalism” would never be Real Journalism, because RJ is..&involves..&has..But “these people”, as bloggers get labelled,..just sit around in their PJs &write whatever comes into
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1.link to original docs?
2.pics(related videos,sound,slideshows)?
3.map it?
4.link to past stories?
5.post audio/video of interview/performance/meeting?
6.send readers to authoritative(external)site for more info?
7.invite comment/start conversation?
links for 2008-07-20
July 20th, 2008 — Delicious
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“Williams’ overall point is right and important: Curmudgeons do damage by killing change and those who bring it.”
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“Fischer’s idea for combining beat blogging with database reporting might be the future of beat reporting on the Web. Essentially it’s a micro-site, niche publication that will be the premier source of information related to his beat”
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“The intelligence of NPR can now be freed from mere radio to use any and all appropriate media. That’s what we try to teach our students at CUNY: making media choices with every story.”
links for 2008-07-18
July 18th, 2008 — Delicious
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Through Our City Our Voices we:
1)offer video and web workshops to immigrants,
2)[.]get participants computers [and] Internet access and
3)we are[.]creating an online portal [.] for these learners to post their videos [and] discuss their life experiences
links for 2008-07-16
July 16th, 2008 — Delicious
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“When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.”
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While there’s been talk for years now about the potential for internet radio to play havoc with the traditional radio business, the internet’s lack of portability - one of terrestrial radio’s greatest strengths - has held it back.
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Answering FAQs about ReportingOn.com
…will be a simple way for journalists to update their peers on the stories they’re working on right now. -
Civic journalism for the deaf
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This does not mean Flash web sites will be indexed like normal pages. Building pages in Flash, while pretty, is still a piss-poor search engine optimization strategy.
Did Pope Benedict crash Australia’s ABC Online website?
July 15th, 2008 — Media, News, Online
The ABC website was down for a while yesterday morning. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen their site offline, and the message would seem to suggest it wasn’t scheduled.
I was trying to find something about a contact who was on Australian Story earlier this year, when I was faced with this ABC Online: Outage page. I tried navigating to a few other pages, but the entire abc.net.au domain was off the radar.
The following screengrab was taken Monday, July 14, 1.50am, and says:
We’re sorry…
We’re unable to supply the service you have requested. This may be due to unavoidable technical problems or very high load on our site. We apologise for any inconvenience and anticipate that normal service will resume shortly.
I did wonder if the blue was a nice homage to Microsoft’s universally recognised blue screen of death. The only reason I can think of for the site being down at that time is perhaps an influx of Catholics looking for news about the Pope’s arrival in Australia. Our 1-2am would usually be prime internet traffic time for both the west and east coast of the US (8-9am and 11am-12), as well as Europe (5-6pm).
links for 2008-07-14
July 15th, 2008 — Delicious
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Crime mapping is just the start. How do we leverage the freely available (but difficult to utilise) information from government sources?
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It’s SMO - Social Media Optimisation
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The tribe should move before winter arrives.
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How cheap is too cheap for video journalism on news websites? Even if it’s on your PHONE, just get out there and shoot, edit, experiment!
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What makes the journalist? Will the rise of ‘citizen journalists’ deplete the number of voices with the access and ability to scrutinise the dishonest bastards?
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Stop your crying and save journalism. Fight for it.
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Virtual worlds could be the classroom, newsroom, place of work and community square of the future - especially when we can’t drive our cars because fuel has become either prohibitively expensive or non-existent.
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Everyone’s touting mobile as the future of the internet - with the iPhone said to be pushing phone providers to actually make that happen.
I’ve been thinking the mobile web is the most likely way developing countries can join the global community -
editor Steve Smith believes
eight of our newest, young journalists [-] who basically have no stake in the processes of the past [-] are meeting daily to share ideas and work up a plan [-] to streamline the newsroom [-] They are the future of our business
A new beginning
July 15th, 2008 — Delicious, Just blogging
That post title is only mildly deceiving. I have finally started using my delicious bookmarks, and porting them into the blog as daily links.
At least that way I can comment on the things I may otherwise intend blogging about but never have the time to really commit to a full post.
The next few rounds of links to be posted to the blog will be fairly extensive, as I’ve picked through the last 100 or so blog posts I had tagged for following up in Google Reader, and have another couple of hundred unread ones yet to clear.
Perhaps it will breathe some life into this ailing blog.