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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Social Media on the Rise in Newsrooms
The social media blog Mashable posted a very interesting blog about the use of social media in TV newsrooms. Some 77% of TV newsrooms have a Twitter account while 36% us it “constantly.” Only 13% say they do not use social media at all. Papper: Radio News Does not Make Use of Social Media from [...]
Iceland Volcanic Ash [Live Article]
just noticed the car is covered in a fine black dust #ashtag #iceland 3:42 PM Reactions from across Europe to the Iceland volcano, via BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/cSI6uw #ashtag 1:33 PM Will the Iceland Volcano Change the Climate? | LiveScience http://su.pr/2sKuRQ 1:17 PM Apparently John Cleese is stuck in Norway, poor guy #iceland #ashtag http://nyti.ms/9bFDVY (video [...]
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
New Media, New Responsibilities?
Some three years after The Guardian redeveloped its website to include new media the site is still leading the way in online reporting. But this does not mean that it always get it right. In 2007 a Reuters photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, was killed in Iraq after being fired upon by a U.S. helicopter gunship. The [...]
Online Journalism
Surprisingly online journalism is nothing new- in 1981 the San Francisco examiner went online. At $20 to download the paper (most of which which was spent on just the phone call) it was not a revolutionary it was not revolutionary it was an important step online. Thirteen years later in January 1994 the Palo Alto [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
The Mother of all Demos
In this video from 1968 Doug Engelbart gives, what he called, “mother of all Demos” in which he demonstrates the first modern PC-compete with mouse, keyboard, screen and a pre-courser to emails.
