links for 2009-04-30
April 30, 2009 in industry news
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The Austin American-Statesman builds an aggregation niche site about the H1N1 flu. Robert Quigley explains.
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links for 2009-04-28
April 28, 2009 in industry news
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interesting widget for wordpress users.
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via @ellynangelotti on Twitter.
2009 UWIRE 100 announced
April 27, 2009 in industry news
UPDATE: Our own CICM intern was among the UWire 100. Congrats, Lauren! – bryan
Today UWIRE announced the winners of its second-annual UWIRE 100 with yours truly included on the list.
From the press release:
UWIRE, a free membership organization for college student media, announced today the second annual UWIRE 100, which honors the nation’s top collegiate journalists. The UWIRE 100 were selected from more than 825 nominations — representing students from more than 135 schools — submitted by professionals, students and educators. A UWIRE panel evaluated each candidate based on demonstrated excellence in the field of collegiate journalism.
Four members of the CoPress team (Daniel Bachhuber, Adam Hemphill, Greg Linch and Emily Kostic) were selected. I also recognize a names and faces from the Twittersphere (Anthony Pesce, Jackie Hai, and Emily Ingram, just to name a few).
Congrats to everyone. See the full list here.
Ready to leave College Publisher? Here’s how
April 27, 2009 in College Publisher, Websites, Wordpress
Update II: here is College Publisher’s response – ed.
Update: Full disclosure – Lauren’s newspaper, the Mustang Daily, is partnered with CoPress and after her CICM internship, she will join the CoPress team.Â
Since the Mustang Daily switched from College Publisher to WordPress two weeks ago (through CoPress), my inbox has been flooded with questions about the process. For all of you out there who still have lingering questions, this guide should provide all the answers .
The decision: Should you or shouldn’t you?
If you answer “yes” to one or more of the following, then you’re ready for the switch:
- Tired of not controlling your primary advertising spots?
- Wish you had an intuitive, user-friendly interface to work with?
- Ready for your site to not look like the hundreds of others in the college media world?
- Want it to be quick and easy to change the look, feel and content of your site?
A CoPress post entitled Can WordPress solve our College Publisher woes? from late September summarizes it nicely:
It (College Publisher) hasn’t been an open, adaptable system that allows students to truly innovate. You can’t open up the hood and fiddle around, or even replace the tires, because you don’t own the car. CP just lets you borrow it, in exchange for taking the profits from those gargantuan ads. That’s their business model, not necessarily a bad one for all customers, but inherently limiting.
If you’re in the same boat — and sorry for making assumptions, but you probably are in that boat — then now’s as good a time as ever to move on to a better system.
(If not, then I’ll quote an old inspirational poster cliché: “Change is not necessary. Survival is not mandatory.”)
Red and Black covering professor murder
April 27, 2009 in College Media
University of Georgia’s Red and Black is covering a murder mystery involving a faculty member. So far, there’s not a lot of multimedia available, but they do have audio of the police scanner up on their web site.
UPDATE: There’s video at the bottom of this story. You have to scroll several screens down to get to the video.
And I find it a bit sad that the R&B has a graphic of a map that uses a Google Maps image, and yet the graphic is a jpeg.
Rioting for no reason – KSU/UM media cover teh stupid
April 26, 2009 in College Media News
It’s near the end of the semester, and that means students are happy to be reaching the finish line, and ramped up enough on booze and whatever else to start destroying things, whether provoked or not. Students at Kent State decided last night’s festivities deserved some pyrotechnics. Apparently, the police decided otherwise. The term “riot” has been used.
KentNewsNet has a variety of multimedia up about the rioting that took place last night. Check out the online videos here. Here’s the user-generate-content story – submitted photos.
Apparently, students at the University of Minnesota also decided to test the police last night. Here’s some user-submitted videos on the Daily site, which is loading very slowly at about noon, Sunday CDT.
Student Activism says the reasons for the “rioting” on the two separate campuses are not clear, and seem somewhat different.
There’s a strong tendency for outside observers to approach student boisterousness as acting out for acting out’s sake, whatever its supposed purpose. On the other side of the coin, observers like myself find it useful to explore the underlying tensions that lead to even apparently random and apolitical outbursts. It’s really easy to let that kind of analysis run away with you, though, particularly since the facts about any particular student outburst are likely to be ambiguous.
Let’s hope these incidents don’t become just “breaking news” stories. If there’s something deeper going on at either campus, hopefully the Minnesota Daily and Kent News Net can get to the bottom of it. Whatever the case, one thing is clear: someone is going to have to clean up after all this “student boisterousness,” and I highly doubt it will be the students involved.
links for 2009-04-26
April 26, 2009 in industry news
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The Espresso Book Machine makes me wonder if something similar might be the future of newspapers for "print-on-demand" rather than the e-book. Perhaps if the price were right and these were diffused enough across a big city.
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Slideshow of Rev2.0 ideas to generate revenue for the future media.
links for 2009-04-25
April 25, 2009 in industry news
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Training from Chicago Daily News on all aspects of community journalism.
links for 2009-04-23
April 23, 2009 in industry news
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A video presentation of the planet money podcast that tries to explain the financial mess. Learn from these folks how to talk and write in understandable ways.
links for 2009-04-22
April 22, 2009 in industry news
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A nice built-in interactive map from the Daily Pennsylvanian by Emily Babay (via @dailypenn on twitter)
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An interview with Nick Bolton of the NYT R&D Lab showing the "Interactive Living Room" of the future. I'm still waiting for my jet pack, but if anyone has any money left after the recession, maybe this is the future of news? via @niemanlab and tascal taillandier on twitter
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Via @jiconoclast on Twitter – why young journos should pay attention to local-local site development and develop their entrepreneurial skills.
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Some more ethical than others, but a good list, via @hidama on Twitter
