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PDA: Elevator pitch by Citizen journalism site ScribbleSheet
‘ScribbleSheet launched in September as an easy, open platform for people with an opinion that they want to share.’
J.co.uk: Murdoch dismayed by the amount of celebrity coverage in The Sun, claims its editor
We’ve run this news story on the main site:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530935.php
We’ve also run a further, related piece:
J.co.uk: BBC podcasts criticised by Guardian audio head for ‘unimpressive’ audiences
Story in the news section:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530934.php
Another news piece, Guardian planning to place ads in podcasts:
Gawker: Why blogs don’t make money on Apple day
‘It’s a scheduled event with a guaranteed boost; last year Gizmodo and competitor Engadget earned four times their normal visitors (and 10 times the page views), with Engadget breaking 10 million page views thanks to a boost from AOL.’
Axegrinder: Argy bargy over Argus ‘cencorship’ (sic)
‘There are some people who see conspiracies everywhere. As every newsroom knows, there is no shortage of people complaining that the CIA is plotting to murder them or the Government is putting brain-changing chemicals in Spam.’
Manchester Evening News launches interactive traffic map
The Manchester Evening News has augmented its first use of interactive Google Maps with a new addition detailing traffic congestion and roadworks across the city.
The newspaper is using information on bottlenecks and traffic build-ups sourced from the readership to construct maps of problem areas.
The traffic map follows the addition of the Manchester Evening News Murder Map, an interactive feature detailing all the killings across the city since 1999.
The murder map was seemingly inspired by the groundbreaking crime maps used by newspaper in the US. ChicagoCrime.org and LA Times.com homicide map were amongst the first to take advantage of easily accessible public information on crime in the US.
AP sues website it claims ripped off its stories
The Associated Press (AP), yesterday in New York, began legal action against All Headline News (AHN), a website it claimed was infringing its copyright by rewriting and publishing its copy.
The AP claims AHN Media copied its stories from news sites then resold to other news outlets, according to a report by the Canadian Press.
The lawsuit stated that AP ended its republishing deal with AHN in 2005, reportedly because AHN repeatedly used more content than two paragraphs of news stories it was permitted, the report added.
Nokia mobiles gets a multimedia blog publishing application
Telewaving is today launching Wavelog, an application that allows users to post multimedia content directly from Nokia mobile phones to blogs.
The Wavelog system works with s60, the software run on smart Nokia multimedia phones like the N95.
According to the developers the software, which was developed and tested on Nokia N95 mobile phones posting to the WordPress, can run on any blogging platform.
The system sounds similar to the software developed by Nokia and Reuters for their mobile journalism project.
That system allowed journalists to upload multimedia reports from their N95 phones to a back-end WordPress blog that desk editors would then have access to.
The Telewaving system is also able to upload text, images, audio, and video and is able to upload over any network connection (this may just be US networks, though).
OJB: Archant web editor on geotagging
Archant web editor James Goffin guest posts on the Online Journalism blog about the opportunities created by geotagging.