Monthly Archives: November 2009

Journalism grads get entrepreneurial

By Julie Starr | Published: November 27, 2009
I like this post on Wired Journalists about three journalism graduates in Philadelphia who didn’t find work straightaway so set up a local tech news service called Technically Philly. We spent the next few months building connections, covering events and interviewing community leaders to serve a population that, until now, was lucky to receive a [...]
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Copyright, findability and other ideas from #ndf

By Julie Starr | Published: November 25, 2009
I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the [...]
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21 ways to subsidise/profit from news

By Julie Starr | Published: November 24, 2009
Jay Rosen, journalism teacher at NYU and long-time blogger on new media, has collected a list of ways news production can be subsidised. He differentiates between business models and subsidies because he notes that news production has always been subsidised in one way or another, whether by a wealthy owner or advertisers. Here are the [...]
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Links: the Murdochs, Jarvis, news junkie apps

By Julie Starr | Published: November 22, 2009
A melange of links from the past week or so. News Corp says it will block Google Jonathan Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp, said the company was planning to block Google from indexing news stories from its multiple news outlets, the Telegraph reports. When asked how long it would be before Mr Murdoch [...]
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Link wrap: geo-Twitter, Shirky, Foursquare

By Julie Starr | Published: November 22, 2009
Twitter turns on its Geolocation API From RWW this week came a post about Twitter turning on its Geolocation API, which means Twitter users can choose whether to indicate where they are when they tweet. RWW imagines some interesting apps being built around this function. They suggest, for example, an app that tracks who are [...]
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