http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors Blog posts form our news team Fri, 09 May 2008 11:13:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Story context: Quickly get the heads up on an issue using Google Trends. Enter your term and see how the search volume has changed over time and track news 'spikes'. You can also compare terms. Tipster: Colin Meek Got a tip? Submit it here - we will pay a fiver for ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/09/tip-of-the-day-from-journalismcouk-google-trends/ YouTube has launched a localised version of the video-sharing site for India. YouTube India will apply 'an Indian lens' to filter content from the main site for an Indian audience, according to the site's blog. Local content partners have also been signed up to distribute their videos through the site. http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/09/youtube-moves-into-india/ Adding to the burgeoning hoard of international bloggers on Journalism.co.uk, China Daily’s Dave Green offers an insight into the world of online journalism in China. Domestic furore over the Western media’s reporting of the Tibet risings and the Olympic Torch relay was as inevitable as night following day, but the nature ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/09/online-journalism-china-the-voices-in-between-the-official-press-and-the-western-media/ Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has soft launched a new community for users called Snack, Media Culpa reports. It is hoped the site, which lets users share comments, images and videos, will be populated by readers acting under their own names rather than anonymous pseudonyms. According to Media Culpa, the newspaper will soon open ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/09/aftonbladet-rolls-out-social-network-for-readers/ Journalism.co.uk talks to reporters across the globe working at the collision of journalism and social media about how they see it changing their industry. This week, Kevin Anderson, Guardian.co.uk. 1) Who are you and what do you do? Kevin Anderson, blogs editor at Guardian.co.uk. My title is misnomer seeing as desk editors handle ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/09/social-media-journalist-the-problem-with-most-news-organisations-is-a-lack-of-editorial-understanding-of-social-media-kevin-anderson-guardian-blogs-editor/ We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. Today, it’s the evolution of the browser with social browsing software from Flock. 1) Who are you and what's it all about? Hi I'm Evan ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/09/innovations-in-journalism-flocks-social-web-browser/ Spleak Media Network has launched two new applications for delivering short-form sport and political news to social networks. SportSpleak and VoteSpleak will serve up news headlines and gossip to users on social networks and instant messaging services, who can then comment on the updates to their friends. Both will function along the ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/08/spleak-apps-deliver-politics-and-sport-news-to-social-networks/ Search firm PIXSTA has developed what it describes as a contextual search engine for images. The engine will let users search by image rather than text creating - according to PIXSTA - 'the most sophisticated and accurate image search engine in the world'. From a random starting point a user clicks on ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/08/pixsta-develops-image-to-image-search-engine/ News and commentary website FollowTheMedia could be shut down unless €35,000 (£27,444) is raised by May 16. FTM, which focuses primarily on US and European media news and analysis, did not give any reasons for the potential closure in an announcement on its site. The site is urging readers to make donations ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/08/followthemedia-site-faces-closure/ Grazia was crowned consumer magazine of the year at last night's PPA awards, with Incisive Media's Legal Week named weekly business magazine of the year. Brand Republic was chosen as the best non-subscription business website and Workplace Law Magazine's site the best paid for. Elsewhere Reed Business Information (RBI) title New Scientist ... http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/08/ppa-magazines-2008-grazia-scoops-ppa-magazine-of-the-year-award/