Some award-winning editors give their answers to The Media Guardian here.
I’m very excited to hear that the creators of Wikipedia* are to move into news. Even at this early stage the demo of Wikinews looks like it could be very useful, with ‘citizen reporters’ able to report, edit and discuss current events. The discussion of the site itself makes particularly interesting (if bizarre at times) reading. More comment on blogsperiment.
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Good to see that, while the print and broadcast media may often be cowed by the government, the WWW can at least enable a citizen to hold the government to account – or so says this thoroughly informative article in Wired News, which includes dozens of very helpful links. Sadly they’re all American, so once again I’m left looking for
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Very interesting posting from Blogsperiment demonstrating how blogs continue to become part of mainstream journalism.
I’m still struggling to find the Creative Commons search engine apparently integrated into Firefox, but the Creative Commons search site is just as useful anyway. Use it to find ‘free to share’ images, video, sound, text and “interactive” elements – but also links to useful royalty free archives.
Following my post a week ago, here’s an interesting Wired article about how the Washington Post looked into their dipping circulation and found their young readers wouldn’t have a subscription even if they gave them away, so much did they prefer their own raft of online news sources. Advertisement As a part of microsoft training, a lot of professionals study
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It seems little icons are springing up alongside my blog like Christmas decorations. A week ago I added myself to Technorati (the benefits of which – other than having my really quite strange image on one more webpage – I’m still not entirely clear on), and now I have a proud Bloglines badge to go with it. Now the benefits
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As The Most Powerful Country On Earth (TM) becomes more strangely gripped by religious fundamentalism, and insists on science textbooks including a disclaimer that suggests religious alternatives to the theory of evolution, at least we can assuage our mild terror by looking at witty responses like this one. Also contains a useful link to a survey that found only a
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Organisers of the 2005 British Press Awards have said for the second year running that they will not be making awards in the categories for best online news site and best online journalist. Apparently this is because they attract too few entries, and the standard of entries is not high enough. Someone should show them the Guardian and BBC’s best
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Another one for my Xmas list: a doll that looks just like me. The power of interactivity is being put to its best use at MyTwinn.com, where you can make your own doll, including choosing hair, skin, and eye colour as well as experiment with face shapes and hair styles. Oh, and you can also have a freckle pattern replicated
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