Distributed journalism in action: the NPR and Hurricane Gustav (2)
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There’s a great interview with NPR’s Andy Carvin over at Poynter where he talks about their coverage of Hurricane Gustav. It’s a classic example of what I’ve previously called ‘Distributed Journalism’, and a lesson for any news organisation in how news production has changed: “For Hurricane Gustav, he has led 500 volunteers putting together the Gustav Information Center, which includes a Wiki and a site called “Voices of Gustav.” The Voices site is set up ...
Lifecycle of a news story in a web 2.0 world (1)
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Alison Gow has put together a wonderful comparison of how news production was done before web 2.0, and how it is increasingly done now, in five steps: Reporter gets potential story; reporter researches story; presentation; sharing the story; what next. “I had no idea when I started doing this how thin the ‘old’ opportunities for investigating stories would look compared to the tools at our disposal now; it’s quite stark really. It drives home just ...
10 ways that ad sales people can save newspapers | Online Journalism Blog (6)
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The biggest problem for newspapers is not falling readerships, it is falling advertising revenue. It is the move from local monopolies to a global platform where competition is everywhere, and advertising less lucrative. For all the talk of how journalists can get a grip on new media, there’s been far too little on how ad sales people can do the same. So here I present ten ways ad sales people (and their managers) can save ...
Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts | Online Journalism Blog (2)
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In my capacity as amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, I have discovered a new raft of complaints as social media addicts adapt to the demands of new technologies and fluctuating social structures. The syndromes identified include: Comment Guilt Patients complain of an overwhelming regret that they are not commenting more on other people’s blogs, and ‘engaging with the online community’. Feelings of worthlessness and frustration. RSS Reader Sisyphus Complex Sisyphus was a mythological king punished ...
The teachers are online: interview with Edward Griffith of TESconnect (1)
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This week the Times Educational Supplement relaunched its website TESconnect.co.uk as part-social network for half a million users to share and rate teaching materials . Alex Lockwood spoke to Head of Internet Edward Griffith: “When we launch, we’ll have the largest single professional network online in the UK. The community lends itself to a social media network.” What was behind TES’s move into social media? In terms of content, the old site was really the ...
Twitter & SMS: comparison table of services (2)
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Based on the information I have so far, here’s a comparison table of all the services offering SMS text messages from Twitter. Any updates you can provide would be most welcome: Service Price (UK) Features 3jam £0.05 DM only HootSMS £0.05 DMs, new followers and info about how many friends’ updates Tweeteroo £0.07 DM only Min. 100 text bundle TweetSMS £0.05 (more) DMs, @replies, multiple twitter accounts, alerts to update status, nudges, filters, timeline, track ...
Twitter & SMS: interview with TweetSMS’s Craig Mason (1)
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At least six services have sprung up to fill the gap left by Twitter pulling its SMS service. I’m going to try to interview all of them - the first to reply was TweetSMS’s Craig Mason, of Stasis Media: You knew this was coming – how? We honestly didn’t ‘know’ this was going to happen. A few of us had heard rumours that Twitter was going to drop SMS functionality, so we decided to make ...
Two Ways To Still Receive Twitter SMS Updates (4)
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As soon as Twitter dumped SMS alerts for most of the world, a bunch of us started trying to find workaround solutions that would allow us to still get text messages from Twitter. After much fiddling, online discussion and frustration, I’ve come up with two solutions that seem to work: Solution #1: feed Twitter into Jaiku, then into Jaiku again Twitter clone Jaiku is still sending SMS alerts to users. However, there doesn’t appear to ...
The Conversation Prism (3)
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Here’s one of those ‘images of our times’. Following Scoble & Barefoot’s Social Media Starfish (I know), Brian Solis has produced this much tidier Conversation Prism, useful for generating ideas, helping conceptualise what you’re doing or identify gaps, or just decorating that plain wall. (via Engagement 101) ShareThis
How journalists can master Twitter (blogger’s cut) | Online Journalism Blog (3)
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The following is a longer version of the article that appeared in Journalism.co.uk last week, with some extra tools and quotes. It’s almost impossible to sum up Twitter in one line. To some, it is a way of delivering content to mobiles as headline text alerts. To others, it’s a social networking tool for getting contacts and leads. Some use it as a research tool for developing stories; and still others as a project management ...
YouTube and the first casualty of war (4)
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“This is the dramatic moment a TV reporter was shot by a sniper as she reported live from war-torn Georgia,” according to the Daily Mail, MSNBC’s Clicked, USA Today, the Herald Sun in Australia and a whole host of others. The problem? None of those media outlets address the possibility of the video being a fake, despite dozens of comments like this: “Sniper ammo is about 2.3 inches long. A sniper round would have blown ...
CNN lets you see the ‘BackStory’ (2)
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CNN have a fancy new tool which allows you to see the “history, context and background to a developing story”. BackStory presents previous stories in a slideshow format with links to the full articles. I’m not sure if this is a ‘Previous Stories’ link box for the broadband age that brings new life to a story, or a waste of resources that might have been better spent elsewhere. The timeline could work well, but doesn’t ...
More about that social-media-for-news training next week (3)
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Being the sort of person who puts all their work online, I thought it might be useful to put the agenda for next week’s one-day training course up, along with useful hyperlinks. As always, contributions welcomed. Here’s what I’ll be covering: 1. Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering: how to mix social media and RSS to bring the news to you Passive-aggressive newsgathering The 3 RSS reader strategy Workshop: creating a search mashup or email/text alert to track breaking ...
Stephen Quinn on mobile phone journalism (3)
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A while back I interviewed academic Stephen Quinn, author of Knowledge Management in the Digital Newsroom, about using mobile phones for journalism, and the discussions he’s been having with news organisations about mobile technology. I filmed him on an N95, naturally. Here’s his response:
How successful bloggers become bureaucratized too | Online Journalism Blog (5)
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I’ve recently been reading ‘Making Online News‘ a book of ethnographic studies of online news production. Tucked towards the back of the book is a chapter called The Routines of Blogging by Wilson Lowrey and John Latta. It is one of the few studies I’ve read to look not at journalists, but at the work practices of bloggers - specifically, political bloggers. And their findings support what I’ve increasingly suspected: “the more relevant bloggers become ...
Get webpages emailed to you (Something for the Weekend #11) (1)
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There are a number of services that allow you to receive web pages by e-mail. These include Web2Mail; PageGetter.com; and WebToMail All you do is send an email to the address used by the service with the URL of the web page you want in the subject line. After a few minutes (they say) you receive the web page in HTML format in your email. How is this useful? I can think of a number ...
The Guardian does it cheap and simple with 3rd party widgets (8)
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Quietly, while millions have been spent on the recent relaunch, someone at The Guardian has been savvy enough to do some things the simple - and cheap - way. Take a look in the outside column of the Lost In Showbiz blog, and you’ll see ‘Our faves’ - a feed from the journalists’ del.icio.us account. You will find something similar in Jemima Kiss’s PDA ‘Newsbucket‘ and on other blogs like Deadline USA. A nice touch ...
RSS readers: why have just one? (4)
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Recently my long love affair with Bloglines has been hitting the rocks. I’ve been seeing another RSS reader. Yes, it’s Google Reader. It started on the bus to work. You see, the mobile version of Bloglines doesn’t do it for me. My ‘morning paper’, now, is to scroll through the headlines from the dozens of blogs I subscribe to - in Google Reader mobile. If it’s something I might want to return to later, I ...
Browzmi - naked browsing (3)
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I’ve just been playing with a fascinating service called Browzmi. It’s essentially a web browser that sits within a webpage, but one that manages to combine social bookmarking with social networking with instant messaging and a level of transparency that is almost frightening. What do I mean? Look at the image on the right. This is the ‘Where is Everyone?’ tab. Here you can see how many people are on which sites at the moment. ...
Mobile newspapers, mobile advertising: good news, bad news (1)
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Here’s the good news for mobile phone websites: Vodafone has “seen a 50% rise in revenues from its data services over the past quarter, after the number of its customers using the web from mobile devices more than doubled.” UK newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror will be particularly pleased, having “begun developing a mobile phone website for 12 of its regional newspaper titles.” in partnership with Nokia. So will AP, whose Mobile News Network is “used ...
