Via RWW come some thoughts on what’s ahead from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly. Five years is a factor of [...]
Saturday, July 3, 2010
I came across this via a link on Twitter (can’t remember who, sorry) and thought I’d post it for my students.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Another reality check for the "real time search" idea. At the South By Southwest geekfest this week, CNET's Dan Terdiman reports that trying to find anything useful out of Twitter search with the standard #sxsw hash tag has been almost impossible.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
New Zealanders are hooked on Google if Hitwise‘s recent figures are anything to go by. In its monthly report the analytics company said 92.27 per cent of searches made in New Zealand in the 12 weeks to December 27 2008 were made through google.com or google.co.nz. This represents a 2.8% increase compared to 6 months [...]
Monday, January 19, 2009
Another top ten list, this time of things journalists should know going into 2009. It's from www.journalism.co.uk and there's nothing here I wouldn't also recommend a journalist getting their head around. 1. How to use Twitter to build communities, cover your beat, instigate and engage in conversations. 2. How to use RSS feeds to gather news...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
This is a useful read for any journalist coming to terms with writing for the web and why that means understanding keywords and search engine optimisation. It was written by Shane Richmond, Communities Editor for telegraph.co.uk, for the British Journalism Review. The “Gotcha” headline on a Sun front-page splash about the sinking of the General Belgrano is one of the most famous, or infamous depending on your taste, in the history of British journalism. Yet no web producer with any experience would consider a headline like that today.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Compfight.com makes light work of searching Flickr for images. Type in a keyword or two, hit enter and you get a full page of images to look at - small enough to see lots on one page but not so small as to be hard to see. If you see one you like, click on it and it takes you through to the image page on Flickr. Genius.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Compfight.com makes it super easy to search for Flickr images using keywords. You can apply a filter to see only images with Creative Commons licences, or only those with Commercial licences.
Monday, July 14, 2008
From Howard Owens comes a useful list of tips for journalists who want to ‘own their own names’ – ie get yourself, your CV, website and blog established and visible in Google searches: Get a Facebook profile going. Use it to link to your site. Start a LinkedIn profile (be sure to take advantage of [...]
Monday, January 7, 2008
Having overheard a couple of conversations in newsrooms recently that ran along the lines of 'you can't trust what you read online' I realise that we have a ways to go in New Zealand on understanding quite how profound the changes are that face our industry.
Evolving Links
Saturday, August 7, 2010
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