Archive for the Syndication and Feeds Tag

Online journalism lesson 1: Using RSS and social media for newsgathering

This year I’m aiming to blog all of my course materials for online journalism. Yesterday was the first class, so below is the PowerPoint for what I call Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering: using RSS and social media for newsgathering. Using RSS and social media to find news View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: paulbradshaw bcumedia) Note: the Online Journalism module is
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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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