The Evolving Newsroom

How Google works – the graphic

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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I came across this via a link on Twitter (can’t remember who, sorry) and thought I’d post it for my students.

advertising, google, search, seo

Data, labels and the power of microformats

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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Somehow a week’s slipped by since the Open Govt Data Barcamp and Hackfest in Wellington without me giving an update here. It was a great event with around 150 people putting their heads together on the Saturday to brainstorm the why, where, who and how of making more government data readily available to the public [...]

AP, data, Media Standards Trust, semantic web

A useful set of standards for bloggers

Monday, August 24, 2009

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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 [...]

blogging, blogs, guidelines, journalists, standards

Thoughts on blogging for journalists

Monday, August 24, 2009

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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.

A storehouse of multimedia storytelling ideas

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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I did a webinar through the Poynter Institute on Flash for Journalists recently. (Good for an overview of what Flash is, component parts, how it’s used in journalism and some terminology, but doesn’t teach you how to use Flash software if that’s what you’re looking for.) Along the way they pointed to interactivenarratives.com, which is [...]

Flash, Interactive Narratives, multimedia, storytelling

In praise of open New Zealand

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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I’m heartened by some ‘open’ developments in New Zealand. Firstly, kudos to Nat Torkington and Glen Barnes for setting up http://opengovt.org.nz, a website that promises to catalogue any government data that’s publicly available for download and further use. This is cool. It can become a useful port of call for anyone looking for data to [...]

government, Open Data Catalogue, Papers Past

List of NZ media folk on Twitter

Monday, July 20, 2009

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Bill Bennett is compiling a list of NZ media folk on Twitter. Have a look and see if there’s anyone missing.

BillBennett, Twitter

EveryBlock releases source code

Monday, July 6, 2009

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If you’ve ever looked at everyblock.com and wondered how they do it, wonder no more. The creators have released the source code used to develop the site. Thanks to Kirk LaPointe for the link. EveryBlock is the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, a journalist and programmer, and development team Paul Smith, Wilson Miner, Daniel X O’Neil, [...]

data visualisation, datasets, geotagging, open government