In this fifth and second to last part of this series I’ll review the research on how and to what degree multimedia is utilized in online journalism. Previous parts of this series have focused on the revolution that never happened (part 1); how to define the three main assets of new technology to online journalism — interactivity, hypertext and multimedia
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Following on from last week’s experimental webchat about how different people make a small or a large income from their political blogs (debate starter, actual webchat) for 10, I am running another one this evening at 8pm.
There will be a Sunday Salon tomorrow (June 6th at 8pm), looking at different aspects of linking, promotion, how people read blogs and the interaction of blogs and Twitter.
The chat will be hosted at the Wardman Wire using CoverItLive.
As a discussion starter, this post includes a podcast interview (35 minutes) I recorded earlier this week with Dan Levy, who manages the UK website of Wikio.
We covered everything from the history of Wikio to how the rankings are compiled, how the Wikio service is used, and what developments will be happening in the future.
Any help in promoting the event is welcome.
If you add a comment below I will email you with a reminder in future.
(Note: you may need to click through to the full post to listen to the podcast if you read this excerpt in a feed reader).
This post is cross-published from my new journalism/new media-blog. Previous posts in this series: Part 1: The revolution that never happened Part 2: The assets Part 3: Hypertext In the fourth part of this series I will take a closer look at the research on interactivity in online journalism and to what degree this asset of new technology has been
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Free does not mean that content has no value, but when the very sustenance of the entity producing that content is in danger, the concept of “free” begins to edge closer to devaluing content. But even if content online has been free for so long, if it is captured back and tightly shut under a pay wall, does it become
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If you want to ascribe something importance you traditionally don’t put the word ‘sub’ before it. The immediate message sent by the Broadcasting Sub-Committee’s report on Welsh newspapers is that the subject is not very important. Furthermore, asking the Broadcasting Sub-Committee to report on Welsh newspapers is the political equivalent of asking a veterinary surgeon to replace an elderly relative’s
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Reuters has been among the leading news organizations in its use of Internet technology, both in its forays into citizen participation in the developed and developing worlds, and in experimenting with audio visual tools to offer fine narrative journalism. Following the success of its online documentary on the Iraq war last year, Bearing Witness, Reuters recently produced another interactive multimedia
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What happens when an online newspaper decides to implement web-only feature journalism? Will the role of the online feature journalist be different from that of a print feature journalist? These questions form the topic of a recently published article in a special issue of the academic journal Journalism focusing on the changing conditions of work and labour in the global
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One rap against citizen journalism is that there is always a possibility that it isn’t accurate or credible. Unmonitored, unmoderated blogs can get it wrong. Well, so can traditional journalists, but with blogs, it’s harder to hold someone accountable, and erroneous information is that much trickier to retract. Would it help then, to look for ideas in a field where
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Last week Paul Bradshaw and I launched an exercise (background) last week to identify and map as many “ultralocal” blogs and websites as possible.
We have had almost 140 blogs and websites added, albeit with a certain amount of “creative marketing” in the mix, which will reduce the total – depending on the criteria used by each person using the data.
There are so many blogs which can be called “local”, with a wide range of purposes, that I think we are likely to end up with a series of directories rather than a single monolithic website. Otherwise the directory might become so large as to be unmaintainable.
I have an interest in independent commentary and a movement to rebuild politics from the grassroots upwards. I think a key to this is to react to the recent political scandals by seeking a broader, more rounded view of politics, rather than either rejecting or ignoring political life.
So I’m kicking off with a directory – called Nutshell.
What could possibly be common between a detailed account of America’s historic role in Middle East peace and a story about urban acrobats leaping across buildings in London and Beirut? Perhaps, the way in which you choose to tell them. Designed to look and read like a magazine, complete with the swishing sound that accompanies each turn of a fascinating
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