graphic designr » Multimedia toolkit: 55 sites you should know about A list that every journalism student should bookmark. (tags: journalism blogging online multimedia blogs resources tools tutorial) Print
PDF Nielsen: Twitter Was Fastest Growing Community Last Month – ReadWriteWeb Unique visitors to Twitter.com increased 1,382 percent year-over-year (tags: research twitter mobile analysis stats trends demographics statistics) Three Modest Proposals for Online Journalism's Future | techPresident No1: In an Age of Mass Participation, Make News Easier to Make Together (tags: journalism internet media newspapers online technology investigative techpresident) Investigative Journalism Done Better, Faster And Cheaper Without Newspapers | Techdirt Myth
CBC asked me to take part their spring training session for CBC.ca journalists. I had two hours to run through how to tell stories online using multiple media. Here are the sites I used in the talk: Example of a print story repurposed for the web from The Vancouver Sun The Great Turtle Race: A project conceived as an online site from the start Example of a repurposed TV script
Blogging etiquette gets personal | Media | The Guardian For many people, blogging is a personal act of expression in which the standards of journalism are irrelevant, but not all agree. (tags: journalism blogging blog social_media blogs ethics) A one-stop shop for Twitter Mashable guide to everything you need to know Twitter (tags: news web tools reference tips social twitter aggregator mashable) Print
Amanda L. French, Ph.D. » Blog Archive » Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter "Facebook’s claims to your content are extraordinarily grabby and arrogant." (tags: socialmedia blog reference facebook flickr web2.0 twitter privacy ownership social copyright) Pirate Bay triumphant as prosecution drops half of charges | Technology | guardian.co.uk Prosecution drops all charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement", leaving the lesser charges of
Can’t afford the Adobe creative suite? – Innovation in College Media There are plenty of low-priced and free browser-based tools that can serve the basic functions of Adobe CS. (tags: website technology reference multimedia media journalism photography tutorial) BBC NEWS | UK | Economy 'threatens' news accuracy Media Standards Trust says some papers are sacrificing standards to maintain sales (tags: newspaper news internet media journalism) Print
Digital Britain – a round-up in 10 bullet points | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog A handy compilation of the government report into Britain's digital future. (tags: web internet broadband Britain) Print
How to: Track a conversation in Twitter | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog A range of tools to help structure and understand the Twitterverse (tags: journalism twitter multimedia web_2.0) Print
The natives aren't quite so restless | The Australian Despite the hype about digital natives' technological skills, the reality is that most students don't come to class with technological knowledge pre-installed. (tags: blogging education technology research facebook flickr web2.0 teaching academic) Poynter Online – <i>New York Times</i>' Policy on Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites NYT guidelines for using Facebook etc: "Reporters can ask questions by e-mail using addresses found
10 Golden Rules for Video Journalists : Ricochet by Chrys Wu From Chrys Wu: At yesterday’s “Creating Video Narratives” workshop at Beyond Bootcamp, Washington Post video journalist Travis Fox shared his 10 guidelines for making video reports. (tags: journalism tips video media news) Nieman Reports Article on newspapers "Today’s obsession with saving newspapers has meant that, for the most part, media companies have failed to plan adequately for tomorrow’s digital