January 2, 2010 – 4:13 pm
Over the past few years, I’ve noticed my personal patterns of writing and reading have changed significantly. Some of this has been in response to the changing technology of communication — the rise of social media, in particular. But some of it has also been about where I am in my life and my work.
Here’s [...]
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March 30, 2009 – 12:14 pm
NPR’s next hire? (Image via Wikipedia)
I’ve made a discovery about Amazon’s Kindle e-reader: It’s a pretty good “news radio.” That is, its text-to-speech function does a surprisingly decent job of reading news content aloud.
I currently subscribe to the Wall St. Journal on my Kindle, and I’ve gotten in the habit of letting it read me [...]
September 24, 2008 – 2:34 pm
Uncle Jay Explains the News: Sept. 22, 2008
I think he really nailed it with this week’s “news word.”
Dale Willman
Borobudur, a Buddhist temple on the island of Java.
For a change of pace, here’s an audio podcast. My good friend and environmental journalism colleague Dale Willman just got back from a three-week trip to Indonesia where he was training radio journalists there how to do an environmental radio show — and just how to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
December 18, 2007 – 4:57 pm
I was just watching the first episode of Buzzlogic Vino Diaries, a pretty good vidcast where people get together in a wine bar to talk about social media. Just my speed on both counts!
Here, Buzzlogic’s Valerie Combs talks with Bill Tancer of Hitwise about several intriguing online-media topics — over a fine glass of tempranillo. [...]