Here are the most popular five posts during December on Reportr.net: Creating a student journalism website on a tight budget BBCNews.com readers criticise ’stuck on’ ads BBC explains thinking behind new Web 2.0 homepage How to find out anything about anyone online The internet and social change in the Middle East Thanks for your support over the past 12 months. I wish all the readers of Reportr.net a joyful and

This is probably the best ever song about a news site, Digg, and likely the envy of mainstream news outlets: According to TechCrunch, Kina Grannis, the girl behind the online hit “Digg Song” (video above) has been approached by a record company interested in discussing a record deal. Technorati Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis Site Search Tags: Digg, Kina+Grannis

The way The Vancouver Sun covered a recent survey on the news habits of Canadians is revealing. The poll conducted by IDC Canada for the Information Technology Association of Canada concluded that the “imminent death of traditional media has been greatly exaggerated”, stressing that “despite our fascination and reliance on digital content, 95 percent of respondents continue to turn to traditional media (newspapers, radio and television) for general news and

Apparently you only need to go to high school to read this blog, at least according to The Blog Readability Test.. It works out the level of education is required to understand a blog. The test also works on just about any website. To grasp the contents of the new website of the UBC School of Journalism, where I teach, you must be a college post-grad. Well, it is a

Former MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte on his One Laptop Per Child concept: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.446202&w=425&h=350&fv=swfHome%3Deplayer.clipsyndicate.com%26va_id%3D477608%26wpid%3D%26cpt%3D] from www.clipsyndicate.co posted with vodpod

Is it worth doing a master’s degree in journalism? Apparently, it is worth it, at least financially: As Mindy McAdams notes in a post on the job outlook for journalism graduates: New U.S. graduates with a bachelor’s degree in journalism or mass communication had a median annual salary of $30,000, according to a survey of spring 2006 graduates. New graduates with a master’s degree in journalism or mass communication had

As it is coming up to the end of the year, journalists are busy putting together lists looking ahead to 2008. The Guardian has published a list of what it reckons could be the next big thing in social media, such as video site Seesmic.com and social travel site Dopplr.com. The BBC has a slightly different take, with a list of lesser-known social networking sites, under the headline, “Don’t be

If you are heading into 2008 thinking, we must do more with social media, here is a useful primer to social news websites. From the post: Social news websites generally operate via a wisdom of the crowds principle; groups of individuals with different points of views are able to collectively determine the value or importance of content disseminated through the community. The users are given the editorial power to influence

News editors are slowly realising that video on the web is not TV. And interestingly, it is often newspapers that are leading the way. In this clip on Beet.tv, Vivian Schiller, general manager at the NYTimes.com, explains how she had to unlearn much of what she knew about video journalism after years in TV news at CNN and Discovery. For example, TV folks try to avoid having a talking head,

Canadian newspaper execs are slightly more upbeat than their US counterparts about the ad revenues in the coming year. A report by Toronto-based Kubas Consultants found that “”Canadian newspapers, however, may be the exception, due to their distinctly optimistic outlook on ad revenues. The economy may be better north of the border, but not that much better.” But execs on both sides of the border are looking to the Internet