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videoblog entry about MakerFaire. Very cool!
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“If I taught journalism, I’d have students edit 500-word stories as Tweets. Not for the result, but the process. I’ve edited miles of copy in my day. But I find that every time I sit down to write a meaningful Tweet I hone my craft a bit more.”
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Pretty detailed analysis of how fast news spreads around the globe via Twitter.
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Roundup of best twitter apps overall, for desktop/laptop, mobile apps, and related web services,
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one option…..
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Mac Screencast software, higher-end. Gary Rosenzweig recommended it on MacMost.
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Another mac screen capture program recommended by Gary Rosenzweig on MacMost.
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And yet another Mac screen capture/screencast program, recommended by Gary Rosenzweig on Mac Most
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Interesting tool, could have some journalism and citizen journalism applications, especially for live coverage. Would be nice if it supported automatic cross-posting to/from Flickr, hmmmmm….
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“When we start envisioning the latest way to get people involved in their democracy, sometimes their democracy isn’t what media types see. And in this multichannel world, sometimes those overlooked channels (like listservs) take on significance.”
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Very cool data visualization site from IBM. If you haven’t checked it out, you should!d
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Excellent audio podcast with two leading NYTimes.com interactive developers. Favorite part is how access to source data is changing audience and community expectations of what news orgs shold provide.
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The excellent video podcast where my friend Gary Rosenzweig explains how to use some cool Mac tools to produce great screencasts. Screencasting is an important skill anyone producing online content should learn.
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Looking for a content-related job in online media? This is a good place to start. Most of the jobs are not journalism or with news orgs, but it’s a pretty interesting variety.
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“Flexible advertising and reliable measurement tools are reasonable requests, but disabling the fast-forward button contradicts NBC TV’s claimed consumer-friendly perspective”
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“The newspaper copyright group Copiepresse said it had summoned Google to appear again before a Brussels court in September that will decide on their claim that they suffered damages of between $51.7-77.5 million.”
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NYTimes.com to release an open API. Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news, wants to “make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data.” Will initially just restaurant listings, etc., But what about news stories & databases?
