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This is some of the stuff that’s crossed my eyes between October 10th through October 14th:
- The Public Domain Mark – Creative Commons – Creative Commons announces the release of its Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that allows them to be easily discovered over the Internet.
- Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars – The Complete Guide – Robin Good has a multipart series on news curation and it’s, well, Good!
- Poll: When should you retweet the competition? – Lost Remote – “When (if ever) should a news organization retweet something from a competing news organization?” aks lost remote. The results are an excellent example of the ‘polite to your face, rude to your back’ school of linking
- Kinetic typography as a storytelling technique – If you’re asking “What the hell is that” then this post, with great examples is for you.
- BBC adopts thoughtful guidelines on social media | Reportr.net – Alf thinks that the new approach to social media ” is a tacit acknowledgement that different social media sites and services have their own rules and patterns of behaviour. The BBC is essentially a guest in these spaces.”
- Tips & Tricks: Sharing Google Docs Like a Pro – Official Google Docs Blog – “We’ve explained our new sharing model before, but, in recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness month, we want to make sure you’re aware of your options for sharing your documents.”
- Blogging and Journalism; Form and Function – One Man and His Blog – “the most common category error I see around blogging and journalism is hacks shoving straight inverted pyramid, 350 word news stories (or opinion pieces) into a blog and calling it blogging.”
- Manchester police tweets – live data visualisation by the MEN | Online Journalism Blog – Paul highlights the MEN quick and dirty visulisation of Greater Manchester Police, day long, tweet
- Data, journalism and your career | Knight Digital Media Center Weblog – Is data boring? Not according to Jerry Monti
- Local newspaper data journalism – school admissions in Birmingham – Paul Bradshaw picks up a great example of local data journalism from the Birmingham mail picked up
