[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. NewsIsFree has updated its website with a new XML-based search engine – SIETS – which “allows its end users to read and search news headlines also from sites which do not provide RSS feeds.” Looks pretty impressive at the moment. The site is also beta-testing new functionality for page browsing at http://www.newsisfree.com/pages/power
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. I’m currently downloading BlogTorrent specifically so I can then download EPIC, a film about the future of news distribution, as reported on Journalism.co.uk. I’ll post comments once I’ve watched it…
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Sick of having to forever register with sites just to scan through an article that turns out to be of no interest anyway? Always losing registration details and having to re-register? I’m ticking both those boxes and so particularly welcome the BugMeNot add-in for the Firefox browser which reportedly “automatically fills in the fields (with bogus information)”
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. More from Poynter (yes, I’m catching up with my emails again) – this time worth quoting in full: “Two recent reports, from Nielsen//NetRatings (PDF) and from Scarborough Research (PDF), present conflicting numbers, but both cite substantial unique, unduplicated website usage. “But is that a good thing? One point of view says that a low overlap means the website
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter’s Steve Outing is encouraging “newspaper folks” to read a piece by Rich Gordon on similarities between the current reaction to new technology, and the introduction of the transistor radio in the 1950s. To quote Outing quoting Gordon: “Newspapers’ problem in the Internet age is not, mostly, their content. It is, instead, the package (or device) the content
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Another great example of wikis being used by a news organisation – CNET.com’s ongoing report on India’s technology industry (Courtesy of Poynter). It seems the form suits rolling and analysis-heavy stories like this best. This comes after the LA Times’ experiment with a ‘wikitorial’ went awry. To quote from The Guardian: “At first the comment piece evolved sensibly.
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. This one’s from the Online News Association (ONA) and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Read the press release here. Contest rules, entry forms and information are available at http://www.onlinenewsassociation.org .
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. The BBC’s continuing online dominance in the UK is making some wonder if the trickle-down theory that the Beeb espouses (we’re bringing people online, and they’ll soon drift on to commercial media sites as well, so stop complaining we’re undermining the business of online news) is still tenable – see the Economist (subscription site, sorry) and Hypergene. Seems
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism].““It’s very future-looking,” the BT spokesperson says, but it doesn’t look a future shaped by public service goals. BT’s just launched a trial of radio and TV services for cellphones. Virgin UK customers, initially a trial of 1000 around London, have been able to from yesterday listen to up to 50 digital radio stations and watch clips from satellite
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has helpfully produced a legal guide for bloggers – although, being American its applicability in the UK and other countries will vary. Any pointers for a similar guide for the UK?
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