Tag: Media
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Building a community with newspaper blogs
John Robinson, editor of the blog-and-citizen-journalism-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina, points to Robin Roger’s UNC-Chapel Hill master’s thesis on “Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs.” [The full thesis as a PDF is here.] Robinson on the broad strokes of community-building: “We use the blogs to help us add information, context…
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Mercury News Photo becomes a blog. Cool.
MercuryNewsPhoto.com redesigned while I wasn’t looking, and what popped out is a nice modern WordPress blog. Cool. What that means, first things first, is that I (and you) can now subscribe to an RSS feed from the site. Cool. Second things second, you can leave comments on all the slideshows, video essays, and Flash presentations…
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Serendipity on the Web
Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You, makes an effort to do away with the vicious rumor that the Internet, Web, RSS, blogs, etc. have killed serendipity. For the uninitiated, or those who merely like words such as “ephemeral” or “paradigm” but try not to get bogged down in definitions, serendipity is…
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SJSU JMC Geek Dinner next Tuesday
Steve Sloan, Cynthia McCune, and other folks will all be getting together at Tony Soprano’s Pizzeria this Tuesday at 6pm to talk about plans for JOUR 163, a course on producing new media for the web that will be offered next semester in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU. Steve says he’ll…
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Scary stuff for journalists: the Feds are tracking your calls, too
ABC News blog The Blotter is reporting that a “senior federal law enforcement official” told them the federal government is running the whole caller-ID data mining trip on journalists in an effort to track down their confidential sources. Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with…
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Note to newspaper companies: Keep your print layout off my screen
Hey guys, let’s make a deal: You stop trying to paste an old media model (print layout) on a new medium (e-paper, UMPC, tabletPC), and I’ll keep reading the stories I want to read, when I want to read them, either via RSS feeds from your paper, or when a blog I trust links to…
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At last, Spartan Daily Soundslides
The photo and online crews at the Spartan Daily have been quietly grinding away at getting more multimedia content running at www.thespartandaily.com this semester, and it’s paying off. Today, the Daily put up its first photo-slideshow-with-audio created with a program called Soundslides. It’s cheap and easy, and it makes for simple to post, dramatic presentations.…
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New York Times on e-paper
“One Day Soon, Straphangers May Turn Pages With a Button” The New York Times reports on the move some newspapers are already making to e-paper: “This is only one test of new e-paper devices competing to become the iPod of the newspaper business. Other e-paper trials are being undertaken by the paper Les Echos, which…
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How to cover the President
No, I didn’t cover the Bush-in-San-Jose event, but J-School photobloggerjournalist Daniel Esch was one of the Spartan Daily staff at Cisco last Friday with the Commander-in-Chief. Check out what Daniel has to say about covering W, Arnold, and friends.
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Notes on the perils of constructed objectivity
I mentioned objectivity a few posts ago, with the promise that I’d get around to putting up something I wrote on the topic for a class. I’m not going into the details of “What’s a literature review?” and I’m certainly ignoring the question “What’s a mini-lit-review?” For your enjoyment, here’s my short literature review on…