#FollowJourn: @Dr_Black/Tech academic and online campaigner

FollowJourn: Sue Black

Who? Head of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster/campaigner for Bletchley Park.

What? Behind the campaign to save Bletchley Park/founder of LondonBCSWomen in 1999 and BCSWomen in 2001, organisations which provide support for female IT professionals.

Where? @dr_black and Sueblack.co.uk. Also on Linkedin and Facebook.

Contact? Via her contact page.

Just as we like to supply you with fresh and innovative tips every day, we’re recommending journalists to follow online too. They might be from any sector of the industry: please send suggestions (you can nominate yourself) to judith or laura at journalism.co.uk; or to @journalismnews.

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BBC launches Democracy Live with ‘speech-to-text’ search

BBC has launched its new political site, Democracy Live, with technology that allows users to search video by text.

“Democracy Live is the BBC’s new website which offers live and on demand video coverage of the UK’s national political institutions and the European Parliament. Alongside the video, we have guides to how the different institutions work and who sits in them. Our search engine is a BBC ‘first’ – it uses speech-to-text to take you straight to your points of interest in the video.

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“Our Search is one of the most innovative aspects of Democracy Live. It works by using a ‘speech-to-text’ system. After a video is made available to watch again, our system adds words spoken in the video to for you to search on. When it finds a word you’ve asked for, it gives you a link straight to point in the video where the word is spoken. You can also search for representatives by name, place and postcode.”

Full guide at this link…

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Want to write about something but don’t want to send more traffic to the site? Malcolm Coles has some suggestions at this link. Tipster: Judith Townend.

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Jeff Jarvis: ‘The fate of journalism is not in the hands of institutions’

Remember how, in true ‘beta-journalism’ spirit, Jeff Jarvis tested the idea for his forthcoming Guardian column at last week’s ‘Crisis’ conference in Coventry?

Well, here’s the final result, in today’s MediaGuardian, at this link. An extract:

“I am less protective of legacy news organisations because they have had a chance to remake themselves as smaller, nimbler, collaborative enterprises for the internet and have largely failed. The future of news – and there is a future – is being built by entrepreneurs who in change see opportunity, not crisis.

“In short: I say the fate of journalism is not in the hands of institutions. The fate of journalism is in the hands of entrepreneurs.”

• More coverage from Journalism.co.uk at the Coventry conference at this link

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