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The Rise of the Video Blog : Rolling Stone

24 Nov 2007 22:13:00 +0100

Online video bloggers are redefining the worlds of news and entertainment

ANDREW M. GOLDSTEINPosted Apr 21, 2006 3:38 PM

Soldiers filmed all the Iraq footage in The War Tapes. These five soldiers filmed the entire year. They spent hundreds of hours learning about storytelling, interviewing, framing shots, and finding ways to share their raw ...

The Personal Bee: The News is Now Personal

24 Nov 2007 22:06:09 +0100

The Personal Bee is a news discovery engine

The Personal Bee is a brand-new, new-media company with one foot planted firmly in Silicon Valley and the other on the other side of San Francisco Bay in the Berkeley Arts and Commerce District (yes, there really is such a place).

In a nutshell, we're dedicated to helping information producers ...

Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers | Technology | The Guardian

24 Nov 2007 22:04:29 +0100

· Online pundits 'influence businesses and opinion'
· Companies are falling foul of negative net buzz

At big companies like Yahoo!, our ever-loving parent, there are all kinds of crazy processes to enable decision making and prioritization, planning and budgeting, resource allocation and what gets focus now and in the coming years.

This manifests i ...

How Flickr single-handedly invented collaborative photojournalism

24 Nov 2007 22:01:23 +0100

» What is collaborative journalism? I would define it as news reporting, enabled by the Internet, done by a dispersed, unorganized group of people — o ...

Blogswana: Blogging for others in AIDS-struck Botswana - The Social Software Weblog

24 Nov 2007 22:00:12 +0100

Posted Apr 6th 2006 7:08PM by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Filed under: blogging, citizen media, Information School at the University of Washington and the Information Institute of Syracuse U ...

Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning: News: classrooms of the future

24 Nov 2007 21:58:20 +0100

Visiting professor Howard Rheingold’s class could not be timelier. In the world of “digital journalism,” also the course name, everything is in flux. With the announcement of the McClatchy newspaper company purchase of Knight Ridder and its newspaper chain, the business of print journalism is in a state of unrest.

Seated in Room 127 of Wallenberg ...

Victor Keegan: Picture all the news that's fit to upload | Technology | The Guardian

24 Nov 2007 21:56:09 +0100

It is difficult to avoid the hype about citizen journalism, the process whereby bloggers and people with cameraphones can report news from the grassroots that old media cannot reach

It is difficult to avoid the hype about citizen journalism, the process whereby bloggers and people with cameraphones can report news from the ...

Newspaper Online Audience Growing Fast

24 Nov 2007 21:53:33 +0100

A study from the Newspapers Association of America says unique visitors to newspaper sites jumped 21 percent from January 2005 to December 2005, while the number of page views soared by 43 percent over the same period. The association also released Lecture | 16 March 2006 18.00 | National
Manifesto Challenge: Developing a Capable Population

Speakers: Alan Rusbridger, Paul Cr ...

Social Design Notes: Flickr Riot

24 Nov 2007 21:51:52 +0100

I’m late to the party on this, but as one of its co-founders notes in passing, the photo sharing site Flickr is fast becoming an easy way to find photos of major protest events in wired urban areas. See for instance, protests this week

Can't the media all get along?

24 Nov 2007 21:46:42 +0100

It's no secret the media is in the midst of a grand revolution. And like many of our society's largest seismic shifts, the epicenter is here in the Bay Area.
The Well was dug from these hills. Craig Newmark compiled his list here. Steve Jobs' Apple grew in the orchards of Silicon Valley.
More recently, we've seen the stumbling rise of "citizen journalism" ...

Find the Fanatics in Your Newsroom and Give them a Mike

24 Nov 2007 21:41:38 +0100

One theory says: never blog about the things the newspaper normally writes about. Only blog about the stuff the paper never writes about. Follow that rule and your blogs won't suck.
You'll add value, draw younger users, broaden the range of your site, and uncover talent in your staff. Plus, your non-bloggers can't gripe because who wants to write about bo ...

MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software

24 Nov 2007 21:37:28 +0100
MemoryMiner is an application used to organize and share digital media using a simple, yet powerful metaphor, namely "People, Places and Time." At its core, are a simple set of tools for treating photos as individual frames in a type of endless story board. A variety of other digital media, including sound, video, documents and URLs, can be added to each frame. The story elements are lin ...

Diver: digital interactive video exploration & reflection

24 Nov 2007 21:35:53 +0100

This section contains information on podcasting: what it is, how to use it in teaching and learning, samples and how to create and deliver podcasts.

'Why pay Eoghan Harris when spin and opinion is free eh?' sez Wag. 'All power to the commenteers!'

by Christopher Harper


This section contains information on podcasting: what it is, how to use it in teaching and learning, samples and how to create and deliver podcasts.
'Why pay Eoghan Harris when spin and opinion is free eh?' sez Wag. 'All power to the commenteers!'
by Christopher Harper