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Teaching Online Journalism

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Archive for December 2006

City-wide wireless Internet

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Shouldn’t every city have this?
Anyone with a laptop computer equipped for wireless access will be able to connect to the Internet from virtually anywhere in the city with the purchase of a $21-per-month account. The wireless connection will be free in two dozen designated zones …
EarthLink also will provide discounted accounts of $9.95 per month [...]

Do you have a camera?

Saturday, December 9, 2006

David Pogue looks at 11 slim digital cameras priced under $300 (The New York Times, Dec. 7).
Every one of them can shoot video at 640 x 480 — and all but two can do it at 30 frames per second.
Note that only two of the cameras (Canon and Sony) have an optical viewfinder. Believe me, [...]

Convert Soundslides to video

Friday, December 8, 2006

Joe Weiss has added video conversion to Soundslides (Mac version only for now).
The Soundslides video plug-in converts your audio slide show to various video formats with the help of the free Quicktime Player on Macs. The plug-in is not included with the Soundslides application, and is purchased as a separate item.
The price for the [...]

Doom and gloom for photojournalism?

Friday, December 8, 2006

A slideshow from Yahoo! News — In the Wake of the Coup — is wholly composed of photos from Flickr. It is designed and produced by Chris Strimbu (Yahoo! News multimedia producer) using an audio report from Dan Caspersz, who is described as a Briton living in Bangkok. The Flickr photographers are credited in small [...]

Really good stories (for your reading pleasure)

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Gangrey.com is a blog that points you to well-written stories that just happen to have appeared in newspapers. Yes, newspapers.
Ben Montgomery produces the blog. I read about him here. He says “gangrey” is a play on gangrene. Okay. And the depressing subtitle of his blog is “Prolonging the slow death of newspapers.” But don’t let [...]

Favorite audio editing software

Thursday, December 7, 2006

With so many reporters and photojournalists gathering audio today, what software do they use when it comes time to edit? Mac users have GarageBand, of course (part of iLife). What other audio tools are you Mac lovers using?
Everyone can use Audacity (100 percent free) — it works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux; You can [...]

You Witness News — who witness?

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

I took some time tonight to look at You Witness News, the Yahoo! + Reuters site that everyone has already mentioned. The write-up I liked best was Mathew Ingram’s — Ingram covers technology for The Globe and Mail, based in Toronto, and I really should link to him more often because his blogs are good. [...]