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Timeline of events that help define journalism in the digital age.

This is a timeline of events in the history of the web and the internet that have helped defined online journalism and the practice of journalism in general. The choice is mine, so you might think it’s a bit esoteric in places, if you think I’ve missed something

Interesting stuff I've seen in January

Stuff and such from the netwebs that caught my eye. * http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2013/01/24/tip-of-the-day-for-journalists-note-the-new-way-to-embed-a-tweet/ – Useful #Tip of the day for journalists: Note the new way to embed a tweet via @journalismnews * http://responsive.victorcoulon.fr/ – A very cool bookmarklet that lets you see what your

Potholes make for good content. No.Really!

I always make a point of looking over the local and free papers when I visit a place, it’s a nice snapshot of a place. So, visiting the out-laws in Plymouth over new year gave me a chance to catch up with The Herald [http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/

Youtube the cable company, longtail and the rise of JWplayer

I’ve played with video online for a long time (more hours of code bashing than I care to think of or could remember!) and I’ve tried every combination of video player/platform etc. in developing web provision at work. Just recently I’ve spent some time writing ‘widgets’

What instagram tells me about newspapers

Dear reader, I have an admission to make. I got caught up in all this talk of the end of days. I know, it was foolish but like many others, I gathered all my belongings, closed up shop and headed for higher ground. I ran from the** instagramocalypse.** Thenews that

Ivory tower dispatch: Free online video editing

This week, amongst other things, I’m pondering video. I tried to write about some of the more contextual thinking around video in a earlier post, [http://www.andydickinson.net/2012/10/11/the-ivory-tower-dispatch-defining-multimedia-journalism/] but it’s the practical side that’s been upfront for the last week. In the

The Ivory tower dispatch: defining multimedia journalism

This week in the ivory tower I’ve mostly been looking at multimedia. I’ve been building on the idea that, regardless of the approach you take (the fast/slow journalism split I created last week [http://www.andydickinson.net/2012/10/02/ivory-tower-dispatch-fast-and-slow-journalism-and-innovation-must-die/] ) , chunks of multimedia are going to

Creating audio slideshows using slideshare (and more)

I’ve just been putting together a workshop which fits around some discussion about audio journalism and audio slideshows in particular (more about that in the Ivory tower dispatch later this week). In trying to put something practical together you soon get to see the limitation of the form within