Bookmarks for August 25th through September 20th
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These are my links for August 25th through September 20th:
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Red Kayaks and Hidden Gold (copy 1) – This is an astute and balanced survey of how public participation is reforming journalism. Kelly sets out clearly and calmly the big questions posed to the news media by changing communications technology and the increasingly demanding and creative citizenry of our digital world.
- Newspapers get the kind of communities they deserve » Nieman Journalism Lab – quot;The reality is that many newspapers still see comments as some kind of necessary evil: a bone tossed to readers to help drive traffic, but something that produces little else of value.quot;
- Google CEO says paid online content won’t work for general news – Editors Weblog – According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, publishers of general news will find it hard to charge for their online conten quot;In general these models have not worked for general public consumption because there are enough free sources that the marginal value of paying is not justified based on the incremental value of quantity,quot; Reuters quoted him as saying. quot;So my guess is for niche and specialist markets … it will be possible to do it but I think it is unlikely that you will be able to do it for all news.quot;
- I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn’t for lunch anymore – Robert Scoble rounds up why twitter is useful for him. Don#039;t let scale put you off here. These uber users spend so much time with this stuff that we benefit from their mistakes and workrounds.
- In Uganda, citizen journalists fill news gap during riots – Blog – Committee to Protect Journalists – A though provoking look at the way citizens are stepping in to fill the gaps left by reporting restrictions.
- UMG v. Veoh: Big Win for Online Video | Electronic Frontier Foundation – quot;Veoh, an online video hosting service similar to YouTube, qualifies for a DMCA safe harbor that protects the service from monetary damages for copyright infringements committed by its users.quot; An interesting development to watch
- Online Audio Editor : Myna – Good grief. This aviary stuff just gets more and more useful. This time an online editor. This cloud is getting more and more silver by the day
- The 5 Big Myths Of Social Media – quot;some of the myths..some thoughts on why they are simply myths and what your brand can do to get past themquot; And if the word Brand puts you off there, remember, you are a brand online
- Tools to build an engaged online community | Socialmedia.biz – A cracking presentation – with handouts – from JD Lasica.
- Nieman Reports Social media roundup – Thanks to @lauraoliver for the link to this weighty round up of journalism and social media from Nieman labs
- A year-by-year tour of how Twitter has been taking over the world | Royal Pingdom – Thanks to @gordonmacmillan for the pointer to these nice maps showing the spread of twitter. As he says quot;one for a powerpointquot;. Wonder if there is a correlation here with the way virus spread 🙂
- YouTube Insight adds Cool New Discovery Analytics – Angela grant pointed me to this nice overview of the changes to YouTube#039;s analytics. In particular quot;new features including stats on mobile users, subscribersquot;
- Nieman Reports | Ours, Theirs and the Bloggers’ Zones: Compatible, Yet Different – Shane Richmond reflects on his experiences at the Telegraph and how the approach to community has matured quot;Over the years, creating community on the Telegraph’s Web site has come to mean a lot more than someone leaving a comment at the bottom of an article.quot;
- The Web At A New Crossroads – A post that looks at the history of the web and where it may take us. But this is no dry history lesson. This is more a history of the approach to getting information online. A great post
- Josh Halliday.com: UK journalism students – join the CollegeJourn project! (Is this thing on?) – Josh Halliday quot;can see no reason why all journalism students in the UK (and elswhere) shouldn#039;t be joining in the CollegeJourn global collaborative reporting project on University healthcare.quot; He#039;s right
- If You Printed The Internet … | CreativeCloud – A great set of infographics that show what printing the internet out would actually take. Good fun and nicely executed.
- Twitter Hastag search – Yes, a hashtag search, but one with a difference. This one quot;Returns an HTML table of tagged tweets that you can paste into a spreadsheet for analysis or archivingquot; Great stuff
- CloudMade Makes Maps Differently – Interesting tools for maps including a nice option to change the colour scheme of your map
- The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front) – The theme is labored but the content good. Using various google apps to share and store
- Twitter tips for journalists | Save the Media – Old hat to some. Helpful reminders to all.
- How to make readers pay for news | Monday Note – A really detailed and interesting pre-amble to the whole pay model debate in media.
- Jeff Jarvis | Let’s build an ecosystem around hyperlocal bloggers | Media | The Guardian – Jarvis pushes the news ecosystem to hyperlocal levels. But the focus on metro level ideas, for me, highlights the reasons why it may be a great model in the US but would need some serious thought for UK success.
- How to customise your browser for effective online research – A great list of tools for web research from the Help me investigate crew
- Technolo-J : Using social media to improve our readers’ experience – quot;We need to learn more about our readers and be willing to interact with them. We can no longer simply speak to our community; we have to be a part of the community. And that#039;s only possible by understanding and participating on these sites.quot; I Agree, but only up to a point. Many of the communities we should engage with are not visible online. We should get out there and get along side them. Then, perhaps, help them get online.
- 10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore – A nice round up of the annoying users on twitter that (if new rules are to be believed) we won#039;t see anymore.
- Five concrete steps to improving the news at Newsless.org – Top fives, and tens outlining what journalism is getting wrong are all the rage at the moment. This list has some good advice. Win the story not the morning is my personal fave.
- Daily Mirror divides opinion with move away from SEO for 3am site | News | New Media Age – quot;The Daily Mirror’s move to drop the use of aggressive headline natural search strategies for its new gossip site 3am.co.uk in favour of building a loyal visitor base has received mixed reaction from the market.quot; Hmm. Perhaps they#039;ll be relying on the trackbacks from all the bloggers moaning that they used their story without credit
- Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization « Mediactive – If Dan Gilmor has a view on how to run a media organisation it would be worth a look wouldn#039;t it? It would
- Teaching Online Journalism » What’s your strategy for your online work? – A great post by Mindy about working out why you do what you do online and what you want to get from it should be linked. quot;So whether you’re writing a blog, or tweeting, or posting Delicious bookmarks (I mark many of my bookmarks personal, or “not shared”), or lifestreaming, give some thought to the audience. If you want a site or venue to be personal, intended for a small circle of people you know, then write accordingly. If you want to cultivate your reputation as an analyst of East Asian economics, then you’re going to be writing about (and linking to) entirely different stuff.quot;
- Now printable! Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency – Mindy puts all her quot;guides for multimedia proficiencyquot; in to one pdf document. One commentator calls downloading this a quot;no brainerquot; – can#039;t argue with that.
- Beet.TV: Flip Easily Beats New Video iPod Nano in Side-by-Side Test – Beet.tv try the flip and nano side by side and, well, the flip does a better job.
- Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data – quot;This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the 5 biggest, most cutting edge Web trends to come out of 2009quot; They start with Structured data
- ESPN Planning UK Online Sports Portal – News from paid Content that quot;the U.S. network has confirmed to us it is preparing a UK sports portal to accompany the broadcastsquot; The setanta aftermath continues…
- Forget facebook and twitter – vlogging is the future. – Filed in the quot;those who don#039;t get itquot; bin comes this doozy from Denmark. quot;Forget Facebook and Twitterquot; was the message of tonight#039;s 21:00 news broadcast. The future is called … drum roll … video blogging.quot; Welcome to the 21st century Danish broadcast news
- How to Start to Save Photojournalism – The Digital Journalist – Philanthropy only goes so far. It isnt a long term solution to the problems in the industry – according to the editorial for this months digital journalist.
- Beet.TV: CNNMoney.com Finds Huge Audience, Profitability with Video – CNNMoney explain how they quot;started video operations as a pure startup in Janaury last year and out of the gate it was profitable right away because we recognized there was an audience demand,quot;
- A swedish take on e-paper – A Swedish take on why e-paper is a cul-de-sac for newspapers. At best a transitional product but not the savior many think it is.
- Interview Techniques – Newspaper Video – A great round up, by Chuck, of advice on how to shoot video interviews from the newspaper video mailing list
- Video short, shot on the Canon 7d – a stunning looking (and interesting watch) film shot, ungraded on the new canon #039;converged camera#039;
- Top 10 Lies Newspaper Execs are Telling Themselves – All true. All very well observed and all worth reading
- Broadcast Skype? – How you can use skype as a broadcast OB and what it really looks like. Great experimentation.
- A poor craftsman blames others’ tools « BuzzMachine – Is Twitter useful for journalists ? Well, even if it is to help identify the cog native gaps that need filling for people to #039;get#039; the change in the media landscape, this post by Jeff seems to suggest yes.
- Why I’m inviting you to Help Me Investigate this – Sarah Hartly asks for help to investigate quot;How much local council coverage is there in your local newspaper?quot; She#039;s using Helpmeinvestigate to do it and it will produce some good stuff.
- You must not embed the Telegraph’s embeddable video – What happens when policy come second to technology. The Telegraph make a hash out of nothing…
- : Sorry Guido, the BBC did for Duncan – Jon Bernstein ponders the role that mainstream media had to play in Alan Duncan#039;s fall from favour and Guido Fawkes#039; view that the news is now disintermediated. So is it? quot; Not yet. Instead we have a symbiotic – if dysfunctional – relationship between the blogosphere and the traditional media.quot;
- Google News Spotlight – The editorsweblog rounds-up some of the (admittedly low) comment around Google spotlight – their computer driven quot;magazinequot;. General head scratching at why and what but like a lot of google stuff maybe it#039;s a real wait and see.
- Data and the future of journalism panel discussion: Linked Data London – Paul Bradshaw draws together the threads of how data and the web (and journalism) are converging as he reflects on a panel discussion around linked data.
- 10 new routines at a news startup » Nieman Journalism Lab – Michael Andersen takes a look at the Ann Arbor Chronicle – an online news sites. It includes a nice, 10 point checklist of the average working cycle. Satisfying to see quot;6. More than 20 public meetings a month.quot;. As one commentator put it quot;It takes blood, sweat and tears to do the news.quot;
- 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
- Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – Jakob Nielsen#039;s take on what the perfect tweet should look like (in terms of usability) based on an iterative design process. Interesting use of caps for emphasis which is something that I don#039;t see a huge amount of but is an obvious idea.
