Video blogging hits Shropshire
Posted on September 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Local rag The Shropshire Star has an entertaining blog from video journalist James Shaw.
Shaw, who started the blog in January, posts on the trials and tribulations of being a video journalist in the making.
Top tips include:
Try not to laugh when operating a hand-held device;
Always check your kit before starting a job;
Don’t get jealous of […]
Independent.co.uk goes to Hollywood
Posted on September 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Well, it nearly did…
A scene from new film A Mighty Heart, which tells the story of murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl, features a shot of an article about shoe-bomber Richard Reid on the Indy’s website.
But apparently the site didn’t make the grade and a new version had to be made just for filming.
“They all thought […]
Cybersquatters versus Apple
Posted on September 28, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
‘Cybersquatters’ have been buying up domain names relating to the launch of the iPhone in the UK, according to a report from Netimperative.
Addresses such as www.o2iphone.co.uk, www.o2iphone.net and www.orangeiphone.co.uk have been snapped up in the hope of making money from misdirected customers through pay-per-click style advertising.
Not the most honest day’s work, but what a […]
Tracking Twitter - kind of like keywording
Posted on September 27, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
A new ‘tracking’ feature has been released by Twitter, allowing users to track topics and receive twitter alerts to their mobiles in real time.
Here’s how it works:
first, set up your phone on Twitter;
send a command of what you want to track - e.g. ‘track Google’;
every time someone (anyone who updates Twitter in public) mentions ‘Google’, […]
Big Brother’s on the phone
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
First it was Google scanning users’ email inboxes to delivered tailor-mad adverts.
Now California-based Pudding Media are launching an internet phone service, where users’ calls will be monitored so appropriate ads can appear on the subscriber’s screen.
Phonecalls, which will work along the same lines as Skype, will be free in exchange for Pudding Media having access […]
New media’s impact on language
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
More evidence of how new media affects the ways we communicate, down to the very structure of the words we use, as 16,000 words lost their hyphens in the latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary published last week.
According to Reuters, informal means of communication used by websites and honed by text messages and […]
New website to support Arab journalists
Posted on September 24, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
A new site for media professionals in the Middle East and North Africa will be launched on October 12.
Menassat.com will cover news, trends and events in the regions’ media in both Arabic and English and will help Arabic-speaking journalists tackle the problems they face in their work. Its editorial team will be based in Beirut.
For […]
New blogs for New York Times and Times Online
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
NYTimes.com has unveiled its new television blog, TV decoder, which will deliver news of on-screen and behind-the-scenes developments. It also promises analysis of ratings figures and the inner workings of the industry.
Brian Stelter, who joined NYT as media reporter in June, will be its chief contributor following his success with his own blog TVNewser.com, which […]
Short but sweet
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk’s spanish might be a bit rusty, but we like the idea of this news site launched by two Argentinian bloggers:
All that 20palabras.com (that’s 20 words to you and me) publishes is a headline and opening par of no more than than three lines.
According to the What’s Next: Innovations in Newspapers blog, the site has […]
Green paper tigers
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Politics | Leave a Comment
Here in the UK the autumn party political conference season is underway, with the party of government, Labour, due to commence its proceedings on Sunday (23 September) and the environment being high on the agenda of all.
This year, Labour media passes have uncharacteristically arrived for all but one of our party and, instead of the […]
