The fruits of, ahem, quality research time spent on YouTube. From 1981: “Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.” “It takes over two hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper over [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A couple more data visualisations for those who like them. This time from TD Architects. The first documents satellites in space and which countrires own how many, and the amount of space junk we’ve left trailing about out there. The second breaks countries down into physical sizes, then looks at GDP per capita (from CIA [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Nice series of posts by Martin Belam looking at what happens to users who click on a ‘share this’ button at the bottom of a news story. When I recently wrote a series of articles on how major publishers are using social media bookmarking tools to drive traffic, I mentioned that ‘share this‘ buttons had [...]
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
I like this post by John Longhurst on the Canadian Journalism Project. He says journalists should be interviewed themselves from time to time, so they know what it’s like. And that the interview should be published, so they know what it’s like to have a stranger’s account of themselves on public display. I agree. I’ve [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
This might be interesting. Via RWW’s events guide comes an invitation to participate in a Twittamentary. In this documentary, filmmaker Tan Siok Siok peels away the hype and explores the human dimensions of how lives connect and intersect, and then are affected and changed, as result of encounters on Twitter. Twittamentary is created in the [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
The Media Bloggers Association describes itself as “a nonpartisan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members; supporting the development of “blogging” or “citizen journalism” as a distinct form of media; and helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.” Its founding [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
Paul Bradshaw does a very nice job here making a couple of simple points, simply. Making Money from content online View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw.
Monday, August 24, 2009
A few thoughts on blogging for journalists in this slide show posted by Andy Dickinson. So you have been given a blog View more presentations from Andy Dickinson.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
News Corp look for consortium partners on paid content From LA Times: News Corp. executives have been meeting in recent weeks with publishers about forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and on portable devices — and potentially stem the rising tide of red ink. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller has positioned [...]
Sunday, August 23, 2009
First of all, what’s Open Govt Data Bar Camp? “The New Zealand Open Government Bar Camp is an “unconference” for people who are interested in making government-held data more freely available for others to re-use. An “unconference” is an alternative participant-driven event, that avoids aspects of a conventional conference, such as high fees and sponsored [...]
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