[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Tony Blair does it, George Bush does it, but according to a New Zealand firm, no one’s podcast election interviews before. The collection of casual fire side chats at The Voice Booth isn’t going to change any election result, and it’s not been used to release new policy or communicate other new content, let alone otherwise unheard voices.
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Following up on an earlier post about why people engage with websites, here’s another collection of reports on why young people engage with printed newspapers.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Always good to have a comment commented on (and to comment back on the commented comment. Okay, I’ll stop now.) – Steve Outing has picked up on some of my thoughts on ‘mapping the news’ in response to his earlier article. This prompted me to revisit a term I came across earlier this year – blogchalking. Blogchalking is
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Suddenly he’s throwing money at the web. Not content with declaring the need for newspapers to wake up to the net, and spending a stupendous amount on internet company Intermix media, he’s now reported to be “expect[ing] to invest another $1bn or so in online properties”, including a search business. The Guardian goes on to say “He hopes
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A few months ago I reported on an experiment in using BBC news feeds to create a ‘news map’ which you can click on to see stories in locations around the world (http://www.world66.com/mapsonomy?rss=http%3A//newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml Now Poynter reports on a similar experiment using Google Maps . It’s a great idea – and looks lovely – but I predict people are likely to
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Here’s a lengthy report for you to get your teeth into: the Online User Experience Study (PDF) from the Online Publishers Association. 49 pages which “identified 22 experiences that describe and define of how people interact with and relate to digital media, and determined how each of those specific experiences impact site usage.” Thankfully (or not, if you
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Reasons to love the net #3,457: a simple link from Poynter can save you over £200: “PDFonline.com allows you to create PDF files from a wide variety of formats, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and JPEG files. Just attach a document by browsing to it on your local computer (PC or Mac), choose a file name for the new
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Journalism.co.uk reports on the increasing need for “digital products for online, SMS and WAP-based services” that’s resulted in the Press Association expanding its training services: “Multimedia training covers designing and writing for the web, as well as interviewing, storytelling and producing video news. “The core skills for text-based digital journalism are the same as print, but design, headline
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Apart from anything else I’m hugely grateful to this article for introducing me to the newsletter about free daily newspapers around the world, but it also gives a fascinating rundown on how free newspapers have used the online medium – especially interesting given most newspapers’ worries about whether to charge for content. Here’s a taster: “Are free newspapers
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