The Evolving Newsroom

Bring it on: wireless electricity

Simon Willison on Guardian crowdsourcing

WashPo trials a visual commenting system

Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans to use [...]

Jeff Howe on writing Crowdsourcing

Jeff Howe on the role of incentives in crowdsourcing from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

BBC: Adam Curtis’ ‘Century of Self’

"Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty."

The Telegraph’s integrated newsroom

The Telegraph talks about its integrated web-and-print newsroom.

Bird’s eye view of planes, trains and phone lines

Clips from the BBC's Britain From Above series.

BBC’s Air Traffic over Britain

From the BBC.

Congratulations Michael Wesch

Michael Wesch adds another honor to a long list: He is the winner of the national professor of the year award for research and doctoral universities from the Carnegie Foundation.

Link wrap: NY Times, iTunes for news, Al Jazeera footage

Michael Hirschorn ponders on the future of journalism and the New York Times' chance of survival in www.theatlantic.com: The Web site, nytimes.com, boasted an impressive 20 million unique users for the month of October, making it the fifth-ranked news site on the Internet in terms of total visitors. (The October numbers were boosted by interest in the election, but still …) The print product, meanwhile, is sold to a mere million readers a day and dropping, and the Sunday print edition to 1.4 million (and also dropping). Print and Web metrics are not apples-to-apples, but it’s intuitively the case that the Web has extended The Times’ reach many times over.