Bookmarks for March 23rd through April 13th
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These are my links for March 23rd through April 13th:
- Print is still king – "The fact remains, of course, that not only is online revenue alone insufficient to sustain news operations, but the print operations of our larger newspapers, having lost most monopoly pricing power, are not sustainable either, recession or no recession."
- "If you love your content, set it free" ? – "systems that are institution or industry focused are the ones that will fail "
- Times embraces return of ‘citizen journalism’ – "The Washington Times' news gathering is about to become a whole lot bigger as the newspaper launches one full print page per day of news stories reported and written by average citizens in local communities. "
- Three easy features that add value to your site – Innovation in College Media suggests a crime map, trending topics and a calendar. Help, advice and a time per week is all very helpful
- Where’s best to distribute video clips? – Sarah Hartley "One thing’s for sure though – putting material into a variety of networks significantly increases overall views."
- Internet Usage Will Overtake Traditional TV In 2010 – "By 2010, Microsoft predicts that Europeans will spend an average of 14.2 per week on the Internet, while they will only sit in front of their TVs for 11.5 hours per week."
- Going solo online: The story of radio’s The Sound of Young America – "That’s not a model that will appeal to every laid-off journalist, to be sure. But it’s evidence that there is a way to go solo online, do high quality work, and make a living. "
- Local news is a lost cause on the major social news sites. – "No matter how much effort local bloggers and publishers pour into promoting their work on them, it's a lost cause. The audience there just doesn't care about local news unless its either a weird-news-of-the-day-type item or a big scandal a la Blagojevich. "
- Great journalism brings in an audience – "If there is any message for journalism in this it is that a combination of trusted news brand (one a fund manager from New York would send his video) and very good reporting will, as it has long done, bring in the audience."
- The Associated Press’ 11 Commandments Parody – Steve Garfield and a nice mickey-take of the current AP problems
- A formula for measuring news quality? – "It would also be useful if anyone is ever to attempt such a study as it would provide a tool that doesn’t hinge on personal subjectivity and therefore can be used by anyone who participates in the study. So what would go into such a metric?"
- Does Google Really Control The News? – "Google isn’t the only one who benefits from all those links. If you want to be known as an authoritative source of news, it is no longer good enough to simply proclaim yourself to be one."
- Vimeo is the" YouTube for artistes" – "The Web video site Vimeo goes after an audience tired of the poorly lit basement aesthetic." Nice article with some even nicer examples.
- Can the Statusphere Save Journalism? – "Content, and the reporters and journalists who produce it, must migrate to the individual attention dashboard in order to trigger a reaction that reverberates across the social graph and become gathering points for individual tribes." Ham fisted conclusion but the concept – especially the idea of the statusphere – is really seductive
- How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links – "What Google “steals” from every website isn’t the content — it’s the links. "It’s the links, stupid. And everyone gives Google their links to read — for free!!" This is why journalists need to understand what power there is in linking and being a trusted source of links
- Sound control for Canon 5D camera – "BeachTek is happy to announce their new DXA-5D XLR adapter that has been highly anticipated for the Canon 5D Mark II camera" – A box that fits on the bottom of your 5D so that you can plug in some serious mic technology
- On the future of Journalism and Journalists (translated version) – "The role of the journalist has changed only in that it has been refined."
- The Morton Plan – Charge and charge again (and the same online as you would in print) – "I call on all you publishers to decide individually (to ward off the antitrust folks) to charge for Internet access to your newspaper content: Offer your readers the choice of getting their paper online, with the advantages of expanded information and search capabilities, or in print for the same price. A modest premium would give them both. Charge advertisers the same for online or print space, based on print's current cost-per-thousand for advertising"
- Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now? – "But you’re not going to learn how to exploit it in a stuffy classroom taught by people who got there by working at newspapers." More from the 'school of life' arm of I'm right and don't need to actually check that what I write has any validity – unrelenting arse
- True/Slant: A new journalism model? – "True/Slant is the creation of a former AOL and Wall Street Journal journalist. It provides ad-supported pages to more than 60 "knowledge experts" and compels them to write regularly and interact with those who comment as part of their social network"
- AP Exec: “To the Untrained Eye it Looks Like We’re Stupid” – “To the untrained eye it looks like we’re stupid. But we’re looking forward to a totally new space, where we have to get ready to do things in a totally different way. We’re trying to be smart business people and we’re trying to stay in business.”
- Knight Digital Media Center: News Leadership 3.0 – "With a third of young people saying they get no news on a given day, two just-launched experiments are putting their content on a new Facebook application and using an “Action Team” model to engage young users."
- HuffPost Publishes Citizen Journalism Standards – "Dead ends are bad news on the Internet" – Good stuff via poynter
- Apple Mac Freeware. – Interesting mac freeware site
- Great free apps for multimedia journalists « – Adam Westbrook rounds up a great set of free MM resources
- Media Insiders Say Internet Hurts Journalism – "In a poll of prominent members of the national news media, nearly two-thirds say the Internet is hurting journalism more than it is helping."
- Learn to shoot video – Mindy McAdams does video in here multipart series of online skills
- Brightcove report shows spike in video activity at newspaper Web sites – "the struggling newspaper industry is creating more online video content in an effort to boost its Web-based audience"
- Online Video Surge May Be One Life Jacket for Sinking Newspapers – “We don’t see online video as the salvation for the print industry or print newspapers, but we see it as a positive indicator,”
- New Media Business Syllabus – A New Media Business course syllabus. Looks interesting.
- Choose the right medium for your message – There is never any concrete answer, but with the multimedia picker embedded below, you can at least have an idea of which technology will work best to showcase a story or idea.
- feednest – FeedNest.com lets you publish any RSS feed (and we mean any feed; yours, techcrunch, cnn, BBC, etc.) to your twitter account automatically posting each new item as they are published. Why would anyone want chocolate in their peanut butter, you ask??? Most people don't
- A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods – Very cool
- How To Build iPhone Apps – An online course from stanford. Available on itunes
- What the decline of regional journalism means for local democracy – Across the country, local newspapers are being cut to the bone or closed down. Is regional journalism doomed? And if it is, what does that mean for local democracy?
- NYTimes.com depicts recession using citizen journalist upload system – NYT readers can upload images using a system nicknamed Puffy.
- Journo suspended for refusing to do video without training – A journalist at the Glagsow Herald and Times group has been suspended after refusing to take a video camera out on a vox pop. The suprise is that it has taken this long to happen. More journos should do it
- BBC – The Knowledge Exchange Blog – The beeb set up a spot for publishing the findings of collaborative partnerships academics and the BBC funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BBC Research & Development
- News International gets its own Huffington Post – News Ltd is set to launch The Punch, its biggest digital venture since it created news.com.au, according to Aussie media site Mumbrella
- A Twitter workshop for journalists – Mathew Ingram shares his slides from a twitter workshop
- Local papers are appalling, says Telegraph assistant editor – Justin Williams says “You cannot dress up your own dross or anybody else’s and pretend that it is anything other than dross."
- Publisher says no to regional press mergers – Actually an ex-publisher but no less valid points raised here.
- NUJ warns against relaxing rules on mergers of local media groups – The NUJ take on the UK newspaper merger suggestions as reported by the guardian
- Can newspapers turn innovation into hard cash? – More questions than answers but interesting questions none the less
- UK Newspaper alliance calls for merger process to be modernised – yeah, right. Because being bigger is really what will save them
- The transition to digital story telling. – Tracy Boyer's presentation – worth looking at.
- How-To: Search the Social Web – Ultimate Toolkit –
- The iPhone and news: interesting prospects ahead – Mario Garcia shows some iphone love
- Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling – A nice round up of teh ideas and some great examples
- Brad Linder’s Zoom H4n review – Brad takes a look at the Zoom H4n handheld audio recorder.
- FT Newsroom 2009 changes – More meat on the bones of the FT's plans
- The FT newsroom in 2009 – The FT release a document outlining what they are going to do next in their newsroom I predict a lot of newspaper execs getting their assistants to download this. 🙂
