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Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism
TecCrunch blogger Sarah Lacy asks an interesting question in her latest blog “Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now?” It’s not that I’m pessimistic about the future for good journalists. Quite the opposite, in fact. Journalism isn’t dying; it’s just in a period of extreme volatility. And in any time of volatility, [...]
Testing Scribefire
Just a wee test of scribefire – I might start blogging more with this…considering I live in Firefox anyway
Architecture of Participation
In proper Web 2.0 style DCU Journalism student and fellow tweeter (as well as fellow BCFE alumnus) @cianginty is compiling a great list of Irish student journalists and media who tweet. I wont steal his links by quoting his text but I will just mention the two Twitter lists he has created here (of Journalists) [...]
11th International Symposium on Online Journalism
This weekend marks the 11th annual Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. In a nod to the times Multimedia Journalism students from UT Austin’s School of Journalism are live blogging the event throughout the weekend. As the Symposium is still going here are some of the most interesting points raised.
AP Pro SEO
The Associated Press announced last week that student journalists should use Search Engine Optimisation style over AP’s style when publishing online. On the face of it this is sound advice, journalists need to understand how to create content that can be properly indexed by Google – why produce content that cannot be found.
Anti-Social Graph
Speaking at the F8 conference yesterday Mark Zuckerberg a very simple programming API that will have a profound impact on the consumption of online news. One of the many criticisms of online news is its lack of serendipity. The argument is simple but important, in newspapers of old (the ones on paper) editors had control [...]
Corporations + New Media ≠ Journalism?
Not only does web journalism allow professional and citizen journalists to become mass communicators it also corporations to reach the masses. Google, as you would expect, is particularly adapt at using new media to tell stories online. While this blurres the line between PR and journalism Google’s use of new media demonstrates just how an [...]
Irish Government asked Google to remove data
The Irish Government has made about 10 requests for the removal of data from Google and YouTube servers according to details released by the search giant. In an update to the company’s own website Google detailed the number of requests it has received from governments for the removal of information from data stored on its [...]
Stranded in Dublin
Delays and cancellations are to be expected when travelling but when the volcanic ash cloud grounded much of Europe’s air traffic, many travellers were left struggling to find alternative methods of transport. In this audio interview Ms Grant, who suffers from diabetes, tells us of her frantic search to secure enough insulin to last her [...]
Live Articles/Dead Weight?
Fashionably late to the party March 18th saw the launch of CNN’s “This Just In” news blog site. Responding to the recent trend for ‘real-time‘ content mainstream media organisations have been developing such news blog sites to report breaking and rolling news stories as “live articles/blogs”. With a mix of informal language, citizen journalist as [...]
