Archive for the geotagging Tag

Maps on news websites – an overview

The following is part of a chapter for a forthcoming book on online journalism. Contributions welcome. Maps have become a familiar part of the news language online due to a number of advantages: They provide an easy way to grasp a story at a glance They allow users to drill down to relevant information local to them very quickly Maps
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Kitemarks to save the news industry? Q&A with Andrew Currah

Reuters recently published a report entitled: ‘What’s Happening to Our News: An investigation into the likely impact of the digital revolution on the economics of news publishing in the UK‘. In it author Andrew Currah provides an overview of the situation facing UK publishers, and 3 broad suggestions as to ways forward – namely, kitemarks, public support, and digital literacy
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Maps, mashups and multimedia: online journalism students tackle interactivity

As a new semester begins it seems a good time to finally post about how my second year journalism degree students approached the ‘interactive’ element of their portfolio way back in May (yes, everything they do is interactive, but bear with me). For the first time I gave them an open brief in terms of what they did interactively (in
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Why fantasy football may hold the key to the future of news

This season, after years of loyalty to the BBC/Channel 4 fantasy football competition, I’ve switched to The Guardian’s. Their game takes advantage of the reams of player data now available to newspapers – not just goals scored, clean sheets and assists, but also clearances, interceptions, tackles, shots on target, and so on, making for a very different challenge indeed. The
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Geotagging and news – the mobile future is here

I’ve written before on just how important geotagging will be in preparing for a mobile future – well, now that mobile future is here: “Apple’s newly unveiled second-generation iPhone includes a news service from the Associated Press which provides stories tailored to an individual user’s location. “The application uses the phone’s in-built GPS (global positioning system) and serves stories based
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Something for the weekend #6: Mashups with Yahoo! Pipes

Image by Sid05 via Flickr This weekend’s tool-to-play-with is Yahoo! Pipes. Chances are you’ve heard of Yahoo! Pipes (it’s been around for over a year and I’ve blogged about it before) but if you’ve not played with it yet, now is the time to have a go. Pipes is essentially a mashup tool, particularly useful for doing things with RSS
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Mapping news just got a kick up the arse

Once again news organisations will be looking over their shoulder at the launch of MetaCarta’s news mapping service. The more I play with this, the better I like it. The red page icons on the opening page are something of a red herring – those are just the main headlines. A search for “Birmingham” brings up a whole lot more
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JEEcamp – when the cottage news industry met mainstream media

What happens when you bring together local journalists, bloggers, web publishers, online journalism experts and new media startups – and get them talking? That was the question that JEEcamp sought to answer: an ‘unconference’ around journalism enterprise and entrepreneurship that looked to tackle some of the big questions facing news in 2008: how do you make money from news when
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Ten ways journalism has changed in the last ten years (Blogger’s Cut)

A few weeks ago I wrote an 800-word piece for UK Press Gazette on how journalism has changed in the past decade. My original draft was almost 1200 words – here then is the original ‘Blogger’s Cut’ for your delectation… The past decade has seen more change in the craft of journalism than perhaps any other. Some of the changes
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Journalism enterprise headlines

The team at JournalismEnterprise.com have been busy – here are some of the most recent reviews: Pownce: a Twitter with bells on. EveryBlock: Adrian Holovaty’s much-anticipated news mapping service gets a five-star rating. Newstin: multilingual news search: “Its taxonomy engine goes way beyond the usual keyword and tags approach. For each article, Newstin’s engine is able to tell you what
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