Author: Ryan Sholin
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Journalism heroes – Teaching Online Journalism
Mindy adds to the running list of new Journalism Heroes. There are only two or three people on this list I’ve heard of before, so I’m psyched to check out some work from the others. Journalism heroes – Teaching Online Journalism
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NPPA: Multimedia Contest
Lots of current inspiration for multimedia, slideshows, etc. Thx Angela! NPPA: Multimedia Contest
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Lessons from the launch – OJR
Notes on launching a citizen-journalism and/or hyperlocal community site, a la Pegasus News. Lessons from the launch – OJR
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Types of online video: redux – Andy Dickinson
Thanks for pointing out the Sentinel, Andy! And a blog post is *exactly* the place to post half-formed thoughts – here we all are carrying on the discussion. Types of online video: redux – Andy Dickinson
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A community site without a community – Matt McAlister
Pligg can now import RSS feeds – could be REALLY interesting if you let it import all your newspaper’s story and blog feeds and then let readers vote and comment on their favorites… A community site without a community – Matt McAlister
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WordPress Quicktags Guide
Instructions on adding your own Quicktags to the WordPress toolbar that runs just above the text area when writing a post. WordPress Quicktags Guide
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Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec-study | Reuters.com
“The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites, according to data released on Wednesday.” Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec-study | Reuters.com
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Hey!Watch – Just encode
Online video encoding while you wait. Could be very useful for editors and staffers to convert and upload video without involving them in Flash. Hey!Watch – Just encode
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Journalism students need new heroes; Journalism heroes need new students
This week’s running conversation between Mindy McAdams, Bryan Murley, Howard Owens, and Ron Curley, among many others, boiled over into the U.K. media blogosphere, and I’m finding myself alternately cited, enlightened, and humbled.Let’s start with some enlightenment from a 19-year-old journalism student at the University of Lincoln, UK: Dave Lee. Lee read Martin Stabe’s follow-up…
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Newspaper blogs appear to be hitting the takeoff point, if they haven’t already
It appears to be time for me to get back to doing some preliminary data gathering for my thesis in my spare time: Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec.-study (via Reuters) “Blog pages accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in [December 2006], up from 4 percent a year earlier. Total…