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Pininthemap.com makes interactive maps easier

Have you ever wanted to make an interactive graphic but not had the time or experience to use flash to make it? Well, Pininthemap offer s quick way to map interactive maps.

Pininthemap uses Google Maps technology to deliver a versatile map to the user. With Pininthemap’s free service, the user can add a few free . . . → Read More: Pininthemap.com makes interactive maps easier

TubeMogul offers new advertising technology

With growing dissatisfaction for current video advertising, Play Time intends to keep their customers out of the dark by providing information that current advertising companies are not providing.

The service will also work much like Google AdSense. Rather than companies paying a standard rate for commercials, Play Time has the customer pay by the view of the . . . → Read More: TubeMogul offers new advertising technology

Axel Springer CEO Dopfner gushes about the iPad on The Charlie Rose Show

Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Axel Springer, a German publishing powerhouse, was interviewed about the Magical Unicorn Device (aka iPad) on “The Charlie Rose Show” last week.

Since “The Charlie Rose Show” apparently hasn’t figured out the concept of embedding videos on other sites, you’ll have to go to this link to watch the interview.

There’s been quite a . . . → Read More: Axel Springer CEO Dopfner gushes about the iPad on The Charlie Rose Show

Mulvaney: Newspaper video has to improve

Colin Mulvaney writes an excellent post on his blog: Video at newspapers needs to improve – that I want to highlight because it’s as good a summary as any of the ways that newspaper-produced video needs to go to reach the storytelling heights that still photojournalism has reached in the past.

He identifies the following problems with . . . → Read More: Mulvaney: Newspaper video has to improve

TubeMogul simplifies video uploading to multiple sites

Tubemogul, a video hosting site, is a simplified way to publish your site’s videos online.

Unlike other video hosting sites, TubeMogul connects several video hosting sites to it, allowing editors to publish videos to several sites at once — including YouTube.

TubeMogul is easy enough to use as any other video hosting site and utilizes the same features. . . . → Read More: TubeMogul simplifies video uploading to multiple sites

Future of Journalism panel audio

As promised, I’m embedding the audio from the “Future of Journalism” panel discussion held last Wednesday at EIU.

Panelists were: Will Sullivan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLToday, John Foreman, publisher of the News-Gazette of Champaign-Urbana, Ill. and Nancy Foreman, executive producer at WCIA-TV3 in Champaign. Jeff Lynch, interim dean of the EIU College of Arts and Humanities . . . → Read More: Future of Journalism panel audio

All aboard for the NewsTrain

The Chicagoland NewsTrain workshop began this morning at the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights. I’ll be posting updates throughout the day to the Mid-America Press Institute web site. And you can follow along via Twitter using the hashtag #newstrain. Speakers include Robb Montgomery, Mark Briggs, and Derek Willis, among . . . → Read More: All aboard for the NewsTrain

RTNDA’s social media guidelines

Via Al Tompkins at Poynter, here are the guidelines for social media as proposed by the Radio and Television News Director’s Association.

College journalists should perhaps pay special attention to this one:

• Avoid posting photos or any other content on any website, blog, social network or video/photo sharing website that might embarrass you or undermine . . . → Read More: RTNDA’s social media guidelines

Frontline’s very serious Digital_Nation

I like most everything Frontline puts out. Digital_Nation is worth watching, just to be reminded how much of our lives are surrounded by, and wrapped up in, technology. Obviously, this has tremendous implications for student media. The first clip is embedded below. You can see the whole series, and associated content, . . . → Read More: Frontline’s very serious Digital_Nation

PBS’s MediaShift blog offers advice to student newspapers

PBS’s MediaShift blog had some interesting insight to offer college newspapers in the wake of the New York Times’ predicted move to install a paywall on their site.

Specifically, the site urged student newspapers not to be lured into the promise of a paywall. While I’d say that’s sound advice, I’m not sure there is much legitimate . . . → Read More: PBS’s MediaShift blog offers advice to student newspapers