Posts under ‘Websites’

Image via WikipediaAs frequent readers know, I live sans television. What I watch comes to me through the Internet. So it’s always cool to find a new source of quality programming (like hulu.com, for instance). Tonight, I stumbled upon (literally) Snagfilms.com, a site that hosts documentary films for free AND allows you to embed the […]

via Rachele Kanigel, a report that the Spectator at Mississippi University for Women is going to abandon print for an online-only approach this fall.
I suspect we’ll hear another round of these types of discussions now that state legislatures are grappling with the effects of the economic downturn.
Anyway, it’s a topic we’ve rehashed several times. See […]

 
So the last two weeks, I haven’t read a thing in my RSS reader about journalism. You may have noticed the silence on the blog here. Instead, I’ve been overdosing on political coverage of the U.S. presidential campaign.
That’s okay, because summer is usually pretty quiet on the college media front.
Last night, however, I came […]

David Cohn interviews Scott Karp, the bright mind behind Publish2, a link aggregating system for journalists. Listen to the interview, and find a way to use Publish2 in your newsroom. Note: As Dave mentions, Karp is another proponent of link journalism. Read this post to understand some of what he’s talking about. Longtime readers of […]

Megan Taylor points out a series of posts by Mark Luckie at 10000 words focusing on college media web sites.
Here are the three posts:
Online Student Journalism: Best of the Best
Online Student Journalism: Outstanding Use of Multimedia or Social Networking
Online Student Journalism: Best Site Design
I encourage you to go check out the sites Mark highlights, because […]

 
The Columbia Spectator put together a multimedia package about the protests that took place in 1968. Check out the intro page here. You can open the multimedia page using this link (or just click on the text in the intro page if you want the package to take over your browser).
Interestingly, the Spectator package has […]

Most of you know I have been testing the new 5.0 or polopoly version for College Publisher going on 4 months. I have been getting many emails and questions at the conventions about what it is like but by far the biggest question that gets put to me is in the vien of “we are […]

In honor of Earth Day, Vanderbilt’s student media mothership InsideVandy presents a multimedia package called “The Green Tour.” There are stories, a video, audio slideshow, a map and a timeline. Each multimedia element pops up in a “lightbox” over the web page (Lightbox 2 source code here).
The entire thing is built into an HTML web […]

The Tower student newspaper at Catholic University of America set up a separate blog to detail the Pope’s visit to campus. Updates (like this one) were sent to the WordPress-backed blog with a Blackberry phone.
h/t Andrew Young at UWire
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Daniel Randolph at Loras College writes about the launch of LCTV13.com, the web site for the TV station at Loras College in Iowa. They’re using a WordPress install. You can read the details (and a gentle slam at our “print-centric” focus around here) at Daniel’s blog.
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