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The stories that never were… « Rach’s ENO Blog
Good example of transparency in journalism as well as journalism education. It’s important to talk about what went wrong or what didn’t pan out, as well as what did. Helps to demystify journalism and make it more accessible. Well done! (tags: journalism environment education blogging transparency) -
SpinVox – Home page
Mark Comerford highly recommends this tool if you never want to type again: “SpinVox captures spoken messages and cleverly converts them into text. It then delivers your message to a destination of your choice – inbox, blog, wall or space.” (tags: audio blogging services processes productivity tidbits+fodder) -
Newbie’s guide to Twitter | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
“Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It’s just not completely obvious how to get into the “club.” So, here’s a newbie’s guide to this new platform.” (tags: microblogging tutorials)
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A Company Promises the Deepest Data Mining Yet – New York Times
“Phorm’s tool can track every online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider. The trick for Phorm is to gain access to that data, and it is trying to negotiate deals with telephone and cable companies.” (tags: privacy databases business marketing info+access nefarious tidbits+fodder) -
deb’s daily distractions: Why Twitter?
“It’s easy to begin an idea on Twitter, develop it more thoroughly on a blog, then return to Twitter and invite others into the conversation. This tends to result in a mix of comments and tweets… conversation on two planes from one post.” (tags: blogging microblogging processes writing) -
Apple – Downloads – Dashboard Widgets – VoiceNotes
Recommended by Georgia Poppelwell of Global Voices Online: “Who knew accessing iPhone’s contents via FTP would be so easy? Just installed the newer, prettier, more user-friendly version of VoiceNotes.” (tags: audio mac widgets tools) -
Saying goodbye – YourHub.com
My friend Travis Henry, founding editor of YourHub.com, moves on to examiner.com. Good luck, Travis! Sounds exciting! (tags: friends career journalism news+biz) -
Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
“The MSU Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is launching undergraduate and graduate online environmental reporting courses this summer.”(tags: journalism education environment distance+learning tidbits+fodder)