By Mindy McAdams
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The only Web sites uglier than the assorted “We have no staff and our CMS sucks” newspaper sites are those of the majority of local TV stations. Not only is the front page hideous, designed like the earth stopped in 1999, and pathetically short on content — but the one thing they ought to do [...]
Part 1 was the deletion of a very successful Flickr member’s photo, a subsequent apology from Flickr management, and a discussion about copyright and disputed naïveté. (The member is Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, whose commercial success via Flickr was recently the subject of a fascinating post at the photo-flash blog Strobist. Photocritic posted a great how-to about [...]
Spain will hold regional and municipal elections in 10 days, and the two major newspapers, El País and El Mundo, have pulled out all the stops in their online coverage. Be sure to compare these two comprehensive packages to appreciate their differences.
Guillermo López writes that the two news organizations make these three associated elements really [...]
Two researchers who have conducted several studies about blog readers, Tom Johnson and Barbara Kaye, have launched a new survey on this topic. They are seeking survey participants who read blogs and who also seek out political information.
If you’d like to help them out, please complete their online survey.
(See a list of research about blogs.)
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I finally got my hands on a copy of “Telling the Story: The National Public Radio Guide to Radio Journalism,” published in 1983.
In general, the more powerful the event, the easier it will be to do a story, because strong stories tell themselves. If you are working on a story about prison conditions and a [...]
I was in a Price Club store in Virginia over the weekend, and they had a large display of very good digital cameras, including some of the models that are excellent for shooting on-the-spot video.
What I look for in a digital point-and-shoot camera:
Street price about $300 or lower (look at the Canon PowerShot A570 IS)
Still-image [...]
On Friday, I posted a shiny new tutorial (PDF, 236 KB) for Audacity — a free audio editing program that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. About 130 people have downloaded it so far. I’m very eager to hear if any of you tried it, and if you did, how was it?
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