With the G20 summit almost upon Toronto, here is a word cloud of the message to residents from the federal government and the City of Toronto: And here is one of the information for demonstrators from the G20 Integrated Security Unit: Print
PDF At the final session of the ISOJ 2010, Andrew Lih, University of Southern California presented his research into the health of Wikipedia (PDF). His interest is prompted by talk about Wikipedia reaching its limits and a slowdown in the growth of the site. Lih notes that Wikipedia had grown so quickly that from 2006-2009 there was no data, until a massive data dump towards the end of 2009. Stats from
This compilation of the top 100 tools of 2009 for learning published by social learning consultant Jane Hart could just as well apply to journalism. The darling of the year, Twitter, came top. Other valuable tools in the top 10 are Delicious, YouTube, Google Reader, Google Docs, WordPress, Slideshare, Google Search, Audacity and Firefox. I, for one, find all of these pretty indispensable. Are they part of your classroom or
The Globe and Mail’s Matthew Ingram is sharing the workshop about Twitter he held for some of the journalists at the newspaper. The presentation is on Slideshare and free to share, download or embed. Journalists should learn about Twitter and its potential, rather than dismissing it as a fad or waste of time. At the very least, as Ingram points out, Twitter is a good way of reaching out to
The BBC has started letting their video be embedded on other sites. The first few videos are available on the technology section of the BBC News website (which I set up in 2001). They include a video on Internet football fans and a report from the Bafta Video Game Awards. As Andy Dickinson comments on an embedded BBC video on his blog, “How cool is that? The BBC said there
Now that the mainstream media, politicians and other “rotting corpses grabbing for any glimmer of relevance” have jumped on Twitter, Jon Stewart offers a refreshing satirical take on the phenonenon: And of course, you can follow me on Twitter @hermida Print
Over at Journalism 2.0, Mark Briggs poses a question that has been bugging me for weeks – what do we call this new form of journalism and media? As Mark points out: The news industry calls it “new media” or “interactive media,” but that’s just differentiating it from legacy forms of publishing. Pretty much everything online is “interactive” and it’s not really “new” anymore. Much as I don’t like the
For my latest post for PBS Mediashift, I’ve written about a new undergraduate course I am teaching at UBC: The young men and women entering university today are digital natives who have grown up in a world of Microsoft, Google and Apple. They have lived through a time when the Internet went from being a highly specialized system used by scientists to a ubiquitous utility that defines how they engage
As I was preparing a lecture for my undergraduate class in new media and journalism, it occurred to me to create a word cloud of the nine principles of journalism from the Project for Excellence in Journalism: (Click on the image to enlarge) Print
As Barack Obama was taking the oath of office, the White House website received a radical makeover, notably with the launch of the White House Blog. In an introductory entry, timed 12.01 EST, Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House, wrote: Millions of Americans have powered President Obama’s journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the internet to play a role in shaping our