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Meet your new (Apple) mojo kit

Update: Damon Kiesow responds at Poynter (see below).

Apple held their fall product announcement event yesterday. The iPod lineup got a complete makeover. The biggest announcement from a journalistic perspective – hands down – was the addition of video/still cameras to the iPod Touch.

While the Droid X and other Android phones duke it out with the iPhone . . . → Read More: Meet your new (Apple) mojo kit

Random quote: Ira Glass on comments

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“I don’t find it very comforting that there’s like a world of people who don’t agree with my feelings about my own show, but that’s okay with me. Like, I don’t have to feel good about that.

I feel like, you know, you make something, you put it out in the world . . . → Read More: Random quote: Ira Glass on comments

Now you can know the future of media!

Yesterday, the folks who run I Want Media (which I get in a digest form every day) held (yet another) panel discussion about The Future Of Media: 2010. Panel participants were: Dan Abrams, NBC News legal analyst; Josh Cohen, Google News senior business product manager; David Eun, AOL Media president; Jonathan Geller, Boy Genius Report founder . . . → Read More: Now you can know the future of media!

Opening up Pandora’s box

Recently, I was on a plane flying back to St. Louis from a two-day workshop at The Daily Toreador at Texas Tech. (I say 2-day – thanks to the airlines and the weather, it was a little less, but that’s a story for another time).

Thinking back on it, I just realized the feeling I usually get . . . → Read More: Opening up Pandora’s box

Video camera guidelines: how much money?

The Canon Vixia HF200

A couple of weeks ago,  I wrote a post about video cameras. In the comments to that post, Kathleen Flores, adviser at UT-El Paso, wrote:

I’m considering the Sanyo Xacti. It is only $160 but has no microphone/headphone inputs. I want to get something inexpensive so that I can . . . → Read More: Video camera guidelines: how much money?

Moving beyond breaking news multimedia: now is the time to plan

As the new semester begins, I want to encourage you who are working with online/multimedia in your college newsroom to begin the process of planning to move beyond the quick-hit multimedia package this semester.

I try to encourage our multimedia staff at dennews.com to think about two enterprise packages that they could put together over the course . . . → Read More: Moving beyond breaking news multimedia: now is the time to plan

New School Year: Changes coming to the Daily Eastern News

This week, student journalists at the Daily Eastern News at Eastern Illinois University will begin an experiment to reconfigure the newsroom to better deal with the online future of news.

It’s something I’ve talked about a lot here: getting the copy desk and editors to put stories online, freeing up the online staff . . . → Read More: New School Year: Changes coming to the Daily Eastern News

SEC goes with teh stupid: tells fans they can’t tweet

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I continue to think that there is only so much stupid that can be brought to bear in the world of big-time college athletics. Sadly, the SEC is the latest to disprove my theory. (props to Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu on Twitter, for the head’s up)

Ticketed fans can’t “produce or disseminate (or aid in . . . → Read More: SEC goes with teh stupid: tells fans they can’t tweet

e-reporting: the good, the bad and the ugly

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In the midst of a good article for student journalists about the perils of “e-reporting,” Mike Heistand of the Student Press Law Center notes the following:

Despite its growing popularity, some veteran journalists scoff at interviews and research conducted entirely by “e-reporting,” arguing — I think . . . → Read More: e-reporting: the good, the bad and the ugly

An ultimate(?) online journalism list

UPDATED AGAIN: Added a few from comments, and reorganized Twitter higher up the list.

Okay, so this has probably been attempted before, but I’m working through some notes for upcoming conferences, and just wanted to post this list here for additions and comments. Here’s what I’ve got so far as far as potential areas for online additions to your college media web site. Anything I’m missing? It’s sort of built from simplest to more complex. Ideas?