WikipediaVision
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Some people have too much time on their hands - though at least László Kozma’s Google mapping of edits to the English Wikipedia shows he’s not the only one.
For each edit, the map by Kozma, a grad student at the Helsinki University of Technology, displays the title of the article, any summary of the […]
An end to WHOIS?
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Handy Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Today a committee at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will deal with calls for the ‘internet addressbook’ service WHOIS to be shut down over privacy concerns.
For those who have not used WHOIS before: the site provides access to contact details for registered owners of web addresses. A simple search of the […]
Calling all video journalists…
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
…Andy Dickinson, blogger and senior lecturer in digital and online journalism at the Universty of Central Lancashire, needs respondants to his survey on the workload of newspaper video journalists.
So far Andy says he has had some good responses from the US, but wants to balance this with some more UK viewpoints.
His first survey on the […]
Happy Birthday BBC News website
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The BBC News website celebrates its 10th birthday this week - though no exact date can be pinned down according to the corporation.
The look of the place has changed a lot in the last decade as this screengrab from December 1 1998, courtesy of the Way Back Machine internet archive, shows (though even then you […]
NCTJ Book Review
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The NCTJ has kindly sent us a copy of its Essential Guide to Careers in Journalism for us to review.
Nice of them to think of us, but shame they didn’t when compiling a section on useful internet resources (p.263-4) - we don’t make the list.
Shiny in top 100 UK blogs
Posted on October 26, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Shiny Media’s shinyshiny.tv - a blog about gadgets aimed at women - has been ranked as the UK’s 12th most popular blog.
Compiled by beta internet marketing service Blogstorm, plenty of political blogs break into the top 100 with Iain Dale at 32 and Northern Ireland’s Slugger O’Toole,whose creator Mike Fealty now runs Telegraph.co.uk’s Brassneck blog, […]
The NUJ and new media: What’s all the fuss about?
Posted on October 26, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The ‘fuss’ was started by an article from Donnacha Delong, a member of the NUJ’s multimedia commission, published in the Journalist (we’re still waiting for our copy because of the postal strikes, but you can read the whole thing on Delong’s blog).
The article is an introduction to a report by the NUJ’s commission on multimedia […]
For disaster reporting - change your site template and turn on social media mode
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | 1 Comment
The wildfires that are raging through California and have caused half-a-million people to be ordered from their homes have encouraged news providers to ditch their normal website formats and go into wholly innovative crisis-reporting mode.
Having a design format for breaking news that’s significantly different from the usual run of breaking news helps draw attention to […]
New media and UK TV reporting on the developing world
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The International Broadcasting Trust has released its ‘Reflecting the Real World Report 2′ looking at the impact of new media on UK TV’s coverage of international news.
Download the full report here.
Guardian America
Posted on October 23, 2007 - Filed Under Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The long awaited US-focused website from the Guardian has arrived - time to dig a little deeper into what Guardian America has to offer the reader (American or not).
Search: using the search facility on Guardian America is the same as using it on Guardian Unlimited. Results for a search on “Hilary Clinton” do not show […]
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