6 Sites that are changing the way you follow the news :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews January 16, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a comment"Even relatively new news aggregators like Google News seem antiquated compared to these game-changing tools."
These are new to me, except for MemeTracker. Do try to keep up…
Journalists — So why aren't you Twittering yet? January 16, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentRobert Niles adds to the momentum:
"Twitter has become what many of had hoped RSS would be, as well as the most vital forum for sharing links with other writers. Throw in Twitter's value as the ideal medium for breaking news, and you're crippling your online publishing effort by not participating."
Bebo kids will value privacy when they see adults do too | Comment is free | The Guardian October 31, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentCory Doctorow says parents of the YouTube generation have not learned an important lesson:
"When we tell kids to safeguard their privacy from everyone except governments, merchants, advertisers, entertainment giants, schools, Transport for London and parents, we tell them that we're not really serious about this stuff. Worse, when we allow our own private information to be taken by all these parties, we tell them that privacy is the cheapest coin of all. When BT secretly installs spyware in our browsers and captures all our clicks in order to serve ads to us, our lack of outrage tells our kids everything they need to know about the value of privacy."
Twitter Basics for Journalists and Recovering Journos — contentious.com October 24, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentAmy Gahran offers a useful intro to Twitter:
“In my experience, Twitter’s biggest payoff is that it allows you to gather a personal posse who can support you in powerful, flexible, speedy ways.
Also, if you’re choosy about the people you follow, Twitter can be quite an effective radar screen for news or relevant issues.
But there are many other potential benefits, especially for journos…”
For which, click and read on:
The next big thing is not the semantic web – it's sensors and robots — edublogs October 17, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentEwan McIntosh on one prediction by Paul Saffo, who says we need to look two times the distance back to forecast the future:
"The next big thing is not the semantic web – it's sensors and robots
1950s TV – Broadcast
1980s Time-sharing – Email
1990s Cient sharing – WWW
2000 P2P – Napster
2010 Sensors – Smartifacts
[…]
The indicators are already in place, though I think we're probably missing it for the immediate ideas and opportunity that the web is offering in 2008.
We're moving from TV to the web, from the living room to everywhere, from watching and consuming to participating and creating, from few and large organisations to many and small individuals. […]
One forecast is looking a dead cert: the future's looking like one heck of a ride."
Popular Online Videos Teach Crafty Ways to Cheat On Tests ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes October 17, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentNext thing they'll be reading students' blogs… Who is watching whom (and how):
" 'I don't think any of my teachers go to YouTube.' Famous last words from a student posting instructions on how to cheat."
Times and Tribune have biggest reach on Twitter October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentNew York Times and Chicago Tribune head the list of most-followed newspaper accounts.
"Erica Smith’s impressive list of newspapers that use Twitter includes an snapshot of the most followed newspaper accounts. Running that list through the newish twInfluence site shows that organizations can reach a large number of Twitterers even with a small number of followers."
New media 'have little impact' on journalism in Algeria October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a comment"The new multimedia tools (blogs, Facebook, Dailymotion…) don't seem to have posed much of a threat to traditional media in Algeria. At least not according to Fayçal Métaoui, former editor-in-chief of the El Watan daily and manager of the paper's website. The high cost of computers, electricity, and high speed connections are just some of the reasons for this, says Métaoui."
Which social media tools are most useful to journalists? October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentDigital strategist Amy Webb in the Knight Foundation newsletter:
"… I challenge anyone to prove that the future of journalism won't somehow involve mobile technology. My company is currently researching a number of mobile tools that would use GPS and other location-based services to target information that can be used on the fly. Yes, it's great to know what crime is happening in my neighborhood or which local bar is renewing its liquor license. But what if I'm in someone else's neighborhood? What if there's a fire burning nearby? A bad traffic accident up the road?
[…] what if my mobile phone had an application that pinpointed exactly where I was on a map, and then delivered the most recent news on subjects that I preferenced? It would be a hyper-sensitive aggregator of everything that I cared about that could dynamically update and change, based on my location. This would be useful to journalists… news organizations …and to consumers who want to be more civically engaged."
Two delicious tools: improved search, and an online portfolio October 16, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Online, Personalised learning environments (PLE), Social networking , add a commentFirst, del.izzy, which addresses one limitation of the standard delicious search, enabling you to search all of the content of the pages you bookmarked. But they claim they need your password for this.
Second, a clever way of setting up an online portfolio on delicious. Michele Martin outlines how it works, using the optional tag description field to head the page with an introduction, and then tagging anything you wish to show up there.
A neat idea: not the most beautiful, but it works, and is easy to update. It has two other benefits, says Michele Martin:
- The del.icio.us feature that shows how many other people saved the item acts as a kind of “recommendation” system. […]
- If people sign up for the RSS feed to this tag, they can automatically be notified when I add new items to my portfolio.
And then of course there’s the RSS feed to do other things with, if you want to take it one step further and embed that somewhere, have it post automatically to a blog… etc