Maria Vorraa
Doing journalism in 2010 is an act of community organizing. Nothing frustrates me more than watching journalists who’ve lost their newsroom jobs entering the blogosphere… with no clue as to what they should be doing online. Too few emerging online journalists understand that the function of news publishing has changed in the Internet era. Simply reporting the news, however you might define that, is no longer enough, not when you are publishing in such a competitive environment. The journalists who succeed online are the ones who understand that they are no longer simply reporters… they’ve become community organizers. Before the holidays, I had lunch with a local journalist who is making the transition from a print staff job to online entrepreneur.
Despite what years of local monopoly may have taught many veteran journalists, readers don’t automatically show up for whatever you publish. “But thousands of people read me in the paper,” they stammer. So, your past earns you nothing online. Now you’re a community organizer. Akron Community Foundation to create center for citizen journali. Akron is about to become a major test center for the future of citizen journalism.
The Akron Community Foundation said it plans to launch a digital media academy that “will train community members to become citizen journalists.” The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will support the project with a $350,000 grant, “with the ultimate goal of connecting residents at the neighborhood level while promoting digital literacy throughout greater Akron,” according to the Akron Community Foundation. The Akron Community Foundation has committed to the project $100,000 of its own funds, which will be combined with the Knight Foundation grant for a total of $450,000. Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public taking an active role in collecting and disseminating news.
Academy leaders “will equip citizens with the tools and training they need to tell their stories through videos, news reports, blogs and visual design projects,” the foundation said in a statement. John T. Mr. Breaking news « Pursuing the Complete Community Connection. Slides and links for workshops at Southern Regional Press Institute Posted in #twutorial series, Accuracy, Breaking news, Workshop handouts, tagged accuracy, breaking news, Ethics, Southern Regional Press Institute, Twitter on February 20, 2014 | Leave a Comment » I am leading some workshops for the Southern Regional Press Institute at Savannah State University today. I participated in a panel discussion on “Ethics, Urgency and Accuracy” this morning. Here are some links relating to ethics, urgency and accuracy (I made some of the points you’ll see in these links).
How to verify information from tweets: Check it out Suggestions for new guiding principles for the journalist My version of Craig Silverman’s accuracy checklist The Verification Handbook is now available I led a morning workshop on using Twitter to cover breaking news. Denver Post staffers’ #theatershooting coverage demonstrates Twitter breaking news techniques You don’t tip competitors on Twitter; you beat them Read Full Post » (more…)
Technology / Operations. Wordpress. View topic - Live streaming with 7D. Ustream's iPhone app to get higher quality streaming video | Mac. Upcoming app currently in beta Ustream has announced that its video streaming app for the iPhone 3GS will soon support higher resolutions and frame rates. The company is currently testing new encoding processes claimed to be faster than the current system. The improvements will bring picture quality comparable to basic web streaming, with potential resolutions above 640x480 pixels at up to 30 frames per second. Importance of Great Web Typography & Excellent Examples | Onextr. Typography is one of the visual elements that can be used to create great web design. And the importance of good web typography is proportionate to that of good web design.
Good typography helps to establish good visual hierarchy, leading the reader across the page in accordance to the level of importance of the different text and images. It can also provide visual punctuation and graphic accents to help readers to connect text with images, and headlines with content. Visual structure essentially consists of the following elements; image, type and colours. Simple and Strong Typography Simplicity is very effective in design, but to create a good simple design is no easy task. Minimalist web designs like the one shown below also allows the typography to stand out and draw attention to its content. Aisleone Typesite I Love Typography Font Game Upsize My Type To make an impact with typography on the web, the bigger the type, the better it is. Bruce Mau Design Gummisig Block Interactive Squared Eye Zee.
How to embed YouTube Video in Wordpress. Beautiful Life. About » Books. Embedding Twitter in Your Wordpress Blog | Wordpress | SKETCHEE: Twitter can easily be embedded into almost any site including Wordpress blogs, Typepad, Moveable Type and any site allowing for liberal handcoded html or flash (ie for MySpace). For those of you don't know, Twitter is a "microblogging" service; it accepts only small 140 character posts for quick dispersement of information.
You can update your phone through text message if you are in a supported country allowing you to have another sticky element of your site. The easiest way to embed Twitter in a website is to use any of the official Twitter Badges. The most flexible of these is the HTML/JavaScript widget which can be customized using [[CSS]]. Cure Writer's Block: Skribit. Working words: How to write for SEO | Blog. I often fill these pages with rants about what not to do when writing copy for search engine optimisation (SEO) and for a web audience. However, it struck me recently that I have not spent much time exploring best practice in SEO copywriting and how to ensure your content is as fit for purpose as possible.
I am going to remedy that today. Please comment if you have any questions or additions. SpidersSpiders are the crawlers sent out by search engines such as Google to trawl through the web, recording details and information about the pages they visit. What they find determines how well you rank for the words and terms within your site. So, what can you do to help? 1) Choose your keywords and phrases and stay conscious of them to ensure they appear whenever naturally possible within the website's text. 2) Spiders pay more attention to bold and italic words, so when you use such formatting, try to make sure it is a keyword or phrase.
The idea is to gain greater visibility and traffic. KPMRS - Website ranking & keyword positioning tool.
Video. Journalism. Tech-Savvy Females Play a Large Part in LeWeb 2009 : The Next Wo. Leweb event image LeWeb 2009 was yet another interesting web event, gathering a very international crowd of over 2,000 people, from which just over 350 were women. The location was exquisite, the heating system was working and although the food was far from the quality you’d expect in France, there was plenty of it for everyone. The NextWomen Meetup The event kicked-off with a NextWomen meetup on Wednesday morning.
Organised along with the help of Pamela Poole, the gathering attracted some very interesting women from across the World. Among others were: Aleksandra Enea and Mihaela Draghici from Romania, who launched the World Blogging Forum - an international event for Bloggers set to run every November in Bucharest - earlier this year. Mihaela and Aleksandra Mihaela and Aleksandra outlined how Romanian entrepreneurial women often become project managers for other companies versus starting they own business due to lack of access to funding, and little personal savings.
Marc Simoncini. “blogging” on SlideShare. NRKbeta: NRKs sandkasse for teknologi og nye medier. IPhone vs Android. Android Market grows up, hits 20,000 apps milestone. Rest assured that 2010 is going to be a big year for the Android operating system, with many new handsets finding their way to stores around the world (including Google’s own phone) and an increasing number of developers building tools, games and the likes for the fast-growing platform.
One way of noticing that the OS is poised for a big breakthrough at the expense of Windows Mobile, Symbian and other operating systems designed to run on various mobile devices, is the number of applications already available for download in the platform’s own application store, Android Market. While Google doesn’t disclose publicly how many apps are available for installation, AndroLib has been chronicling the publication of all free and paid apps since Android was introduced, so it’s the closest thing to getting a confirmed number at this point. Lo and behold, that number hit the 20,000 milestone just moments ago, a little over 5 months since it reached 10,000 apps. 10 Must have Plugins for Wordpress blog. Many of the best web hosts, even if they are not marketed specifically as WordPress hosting, offer WordPress hosting.
If you are new to WordPress and blogging as a whole, you might not be able to take advantage of the full potential of this great blogging platform. WordPress comes with a lot of functionalities, but if you want to make your blog really one of a kind, you need to install plugins. Here are some of the coolest WordPress plugins, which are a must have for many (if not every) WordPress blog: 1. Akismet Akismet is your greatest ally against comment spam.
If your blog becomes popular, you will find yourself spending hours a day reading all kinds of junk comments. 2. If search engines are important for you, you can’t go without the All In One SEO Pack. 3. The NextGEN Gallery plugin allows to turn your wordpress hosting into image hosting. 4. 5. Best web hosts do perform regular backups but even the best WordPress hosts don’t backup the database of your WordPress installation. 6. The Google Phone: This changes everything (mostly) We don’t have much information on the Google Phone just yet. In fact, it sounds more like a party favor than anything else. However, if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some of the strangest – and coolest – times in mobile we’ve ever experienced. What do we know? It’s an HTC phone – probably the Passion, a distant cousin to the beautiful HD2 – with large touchscreen.
It’s GSM unlocked and everyone at Google has one so whatever the super secret specs are, they won’t stay super secret for long. But what if Google starts to sell this thing? For nigh on three decades computer manufacturers have been secure in their positions of power. But suddenly service providers are doing hardware. When service providers make hardware, they have a different set of priorities. PC makers are working in commodities. We don’t know enough right now to say how interesting this be, but it’s definitely intriguing. Anbefalte programmer til Android - Forum - Amobil. Skrevet 16. juni 2009 - 07:45 Etter ca. en ukes bruk av HTC Magic mener jeg følgende programmer er essensielle (merk at jeg bare har brukt mobilen i en uke, så dette kan endre seg). Advanced Task Manager LiteOppgavebehandler for Android mobiler.Vurdering: Uvurderlig for å håndtere programmer og tjenester på Android.Pris: GratisURL: Cyrket: Advanced Task Manager Lite | AndroidStats: rankingBilde: Bilde | Barcode aFile LiteFilutforsker for Android som også kan kjøre en web-server som enkelt gjør den interne filstrukturen på telefonen tilgjengelig på lokalnettverket via en web-side.Vurdering: Kjempefin for å bla igjennom filsystemet på mobilen fra PC'en.
Har ikke fått opplasting fra PCen til å fungere helt bra.Pris: GratisURL: Cyrket: aFile Lite | AndroidStats: rankingBilde: Barcode aTrackDogFull kontroll over installerte programmer. NetCounter"Teller" for nettverkstrafikk. ShazamMusikkgjenkjenning for mobilen.Vurdering: Denne er morsom. Scobleizer — Exploring the 2010 Web. Girls n Gadgets. Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide. The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte.
Mashable. Leweb09.
TechCrunch. 2010: My Fifth Annual List Of The Tech Products I Love And Use E. It’s time for my annual list of technology products that I love and use every day. This is the (wow) fifth year I’ve done this. Here are my previous lists: 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006. The scope of the list has changed over time. In 2006 it was just about websites. These aren’t necessarily newly launched products (see Daniel Raffel’s post yesterday for a solid list of great new products). I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them. Just three of these products have been on the list all five years: TechMeme, Skype and WordPress. I’ve added 13 new products to last year’s list: Android, Apple Magic Mouse, Dropbox, Evernote, Foursquare/Loopt/Gowalla, Google Docs, Google Voice, Kodak Zi8, MOG, Skitch and Spotify.
I’ve removed seven products from the 2009 list: 1-800-Free-411, Digg, Friendfeed, Google Reader, iPhone, MySpace Music and Zoho. Here’s my 2010 list of tech products that I love and use every day: Android Animoto Gmail. EveryTrail - GPS Travel Community, Share your GPS Tracks, Geotag.
Usefull links. Cool stuff. Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010. As we’re coming to the end of this year, everyone starts to look towards the next one and there will no doubt be an upsurge of articles predicting the web trends of 2010 in the next days to come. However, in this article, we’ll be talking about what’s actually driving these trends now, and what they mean for the future of the internet. 1. CSS3, HTML5 and Fonts as a Service CSS3, HTML5, and Fonts as a Service such as Typekit that cater to web browsers that already support the @font-face rule, are giving web designers the creative freedom that they have been coveting for a long time. CSS3 is opening up various new options for styling content on the web, from multiple backgrounds on page elements, better ability to select and style elements with greater specificity, and color gradients without reliance on static graphics, to simpler aesthetical improvements such as support for rounded corners without the need for complicated sliding doors techniques or JavaScript.
So what will change? 2. 3. 10 Twitter Tools To Help You Track And Perform Better. I’m guessing if you are reading this is because you use or want to use Twitter for more than just pure fun. Maybe you even have an objective in mind. Maybe you are trying to convert followers into prospects for your product or service or you are trying to increase traffic to your website or blog. Whatever those objectives are, having the right tools handy is always important. Think of a traditional marketing campaign, big or small, there are tools that help you measure your performance, compare with the competition, manage your cost, track your conversion rate and many more that will allow you to adjust your strategy and go after the right prospect.
The good news is that there are applications out there that you can use to get some visibility on how you are doing and help you get in front of the right public. 1. 2. Another destination with some cool data to take in consideration. 3. One of my favorites. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Bit.ly is more than a URL shortener. 10. Final Thought. How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography. The Art of the List : The World.