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Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber

April 20, 2008 – 3:20 pm

OpenDemocracy, via Flickr (CC license)

What might this Malian girl and I have in common, and what might we learn from each other? How could we know if we can’t really connect?

This morning I listened to an excellent Radio Open Source interview. Host Christopher Lydon was talking to Global Voices Online founder Ethan Zuckerman and GVO [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, Net Effects on Society, Resources, community, conversational media, critical thinking, culture, mindset, personal, problems, processes, psychology, skills, social media, social networks, society, solutions, tools | Comments (9)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Content Style & Business, General, Labels and Metadata, PR & marketing, Resources, Strategy, Wikis, blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, content management, contributed content, conversational media, creativity, credibility, critical thinking, culture, distribution, education, experience, forums, innovation, journalism, media evolution, mindset, mobile, networking, processes, projects, research, search, services, skills, social media, traffic, transparency, world | Comments (15)

Get my favorite news headline podcasts via MediaFly

January 24, 2008 – 2:22 pm

My Mediafly profile currently contains these news headline podcasts.

Yesterday I offered some tips about making news podcasts smart. Today, Contentious reader Carson commented, “You should create a public profile on Mediafly.com to allow people easy access to those feeds. Or, take their public RSS aggregated feed and put it on your blog, then people just [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Feeds (RSS), distribution, journalism, podcasts | Comments (4)

Getting Smart About News Podcasts

January 23, 2008 – 2:46 pm

MostlyNews.net

See how simple podcast show notes can be?

(NOTE: I just published this on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, which is mainly read by mainstream journalists and journalism educators, but I thought Contentious readers might find it interesting, too.)
Like many net users, I get a lot of my news via podcasts. I’ve sampled several news podcasts and have [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Strategy, business, podcasts | Comments (6)

CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?

October 25, 2007 – 11:00 am

Alex Miroshnichenko

Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.

For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in General, citizen journalism, collaboration, contributed content, conversational media, history, innovation, journalism, media evolution, services, tools | Comments (0)