By Mindy McAdams
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If you’re going to build a social networking site online for a geographical community — what I like to think of as a “real world” community — what software will you use?
You might think with all the free and open source tools available, the hardest part would be choosing one. Not so. According to an […]
Danny Sanchez has the news and relevant links at his blog. Or go straight to the shiny new home page.
I don’t know about you, but the new design doesn’t rock my boat. And I really don’t like the tabs.
Update: The midday video update is pretty good, but it seems kind of strange to have it […]
I’m going to keep my eye on Thoof, an upcoming news aggregation site, now in beta. It might end up getting taken over by technology wonks (like Digg) or being gamed (also like Digg) — but if not, it could be really useful.
Thoof’s founder, Ian Clarke, is:
obsessed with the fact that even when accurate information […]
At my university, we are playing host to 17 journalism educators from 17 countries, most of which are “developing” rather than “developed.” We have arranged six weeks of lectures, workshops and travel for them with the goal of increasing their understanding of how we practice and teach journalism in the U.S.
Of course they all use […]
Mark Bowden relates how an enterprising online producer at the Philadelphia Inquirer transformed his 29-part series (!) “Black Hawk Down” into a Web site — in 1997. Early days indeed. It’s a fascinating site to look at today — imagine how much work went into this package. Tons of audio, lots of great contextual links […]
Chuck Fadely, who shoots video for the Miami Herald, posted a long rant about boneheaded attitudes toward video:
The internet audience is growing and you want your staff — from the janitor all the way up to the M.E. — to contribute to the web product. Video! Let’s do lots of video! There was some guy […]
Double growth rates — according to a Nielsen//NetRatings study, “the audience for newspaper Web sites is growing at nearly twice the rate of the overall online audience.” The study was described in a press release from the Newspaper Association of America.
“An average of more than 59 million people (37.6 percent of all active Internet users) […]
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