Posts under ‘Links’

A few things I’ve read over the past week that’ve caught my fancy:

Danny Sanchez points out that Google’s Knol (press release blog post) puts it firmly in the content creation category as a challenge to media companies.
The NYT’s Bits blog writes about Verve Wireless, a company that is helping to make local newspapers’ mobile web […]

Last week, I was at the Management Seminar for College Newspaper Editors (MSCNE) at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
I promised the student editors I’d post links t the web-based tools we discussed during our sessions, so here they are:

Ustream.tv: allows you to live-stream a video signal that you can […]

APAD interviews Rob Finch
A Photo A Day interview with Oregonian photographer Rob Finch, in which he discusses new media. Found via Mindy McAdams.
(tags: photojournalism photography interviews)

Multimedia Training
UC-Berkeley site with lots of tutorial material.
(tags: multimedia journalism tutorial video digitalstorytelling media reference education onlinejournalism)

Video Survival Guide
Chuck Fadely provides a handy guide for newspapers dipping their feet into the choppy water of moving images. Recommended by plenty of other media bloggers
(tags: howto journalism newspapers tips toread video media reference)

Poynter interviews Joe Weiss
Joe Weiss. You don’t know who Joe Weiss is? Only the guy who created Soundslides - the blessing […]

Ad Age Agency of the Year: The Consumer
Advertising Age jumps on the ego-stroking bandwagon (after Time’s Person of the Year), and names us as the ad agency phenom of ‘06. Where’s our commission?
(tags: advertising marketing web2.0 viral internet community)

Pwned: Syllabus
The syllabus for Cory Doctorow’s U of Southern California class on copyright and the Internet. Lots of good links for technology resources.
(tags: copyright syllabus education DRM doctorow digital)

Online: Video - WSJ.com
Broadcasters - be afraid, be very afraid.
(tags: online technology news tv)

Cite Bite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages
If you reference specific statements from other web sites, this is a nifty little app, with a firefox extension. found at Lifehacker.
(tags: blogging collaboration firefox lifehacker citation quotes tools Web2.0)

24 ways: Fast and Simple Usability Testing
A great article that walks you through the steps to […]

SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script
Recommeded by McAdams. Claims to do more and better than the traditional Flash embed methods. Not sure if it works in College Publisher sites.
(tags: browser flash swfobject embed flashobject webdesign javascript online media video website)

UK Newspaper Video : Starting an Overview
Andy Dickinson starts an ambitious project highlighting some […]

Photography Staff Manual
Brad Wilson at NC State U. put the student media photography manual online. Great template for ideas about photojournalism policies and also what you can do to put staff manuals online. Easier to update and saves printing costs.
(tags: journalism photojournalism management collegemedia)