By Mindy McAdams

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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “mobile” category

Mobile journalism: What’s in your backpack?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Student and journalist Jared Silfies dumped out his backpack and showed us the things he carries for mobile reporting.
I love his photo! I would enjoy seeing more like it. What do you say — can you post a picture for us, and give us a gear list? Just post it to Flickr if you don’t […]

Mobile data: Next hurdle for journalism

Monday, April 21, 2008

With 75 percent of all adult Americans using a mobile phone or PDA, journalists need to start thinking about what people do with those gadgets — and how it relates to distributing the products of journalism.
In addition to making voice phone calls, mobile users are texting, e-mailing, sending instant messages; taking pictures; looking for maps […]

Looking ahead to the ‘iPod moment’ for newspapers

Friday, September 21, 2007

What the iPod has done to the music business, another device will do to the newspaper business, writes Charles Arthur, a technology editor at The Guardian. This is not a new notion, but Arthur’s post is particularly well written and thought provoking. More important, Arthur writes about the idea of change — not merely about […]

“Micro media” and our mobile future

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Buzz words fly, collide, crash and burn. Microformats are gaining altitude. Widgets have somehow plopped onto the hairpieces of older newspaper executives and nested there. And now — micro media.
Jeremiah Owyang is one of those San Francisco-based Web strategy guys — the type who’s always on top of new things like Pownce (and back in […]

Have cell phone, will shoot (and edit)

Monday, February 5, 2007

Maybe your computer is too old and slow to handle video editing, Or maybe you don’t even HAVE a computer. You can always go to the local cyber café, plug in your cell phone (which shoots video, of course) and edit and post to the Internet for all the world to see. All the cool […]

Always playing catch-up

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Newspapers are the slowest, most hidebound, head-in-the-sand businesses in the world. The people who work for newspapers are good people, smart people (I love them; they are my people) — but they keep looking back when they should be looking forward.
I see evidence of that in the stats for this blog. I write about Craigslist […]

Mobile and broadband video

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Get the straight dope about on-demand video from CNN.com (David Payne), ABC Digital (Bernard Gershon), CBS Stations (Jonathan Leess), NYTimes.com (Vivian Schiller) and Advanced Media Ventures Group (Shelly Palmer) via Cory Bergman blogging live (yesterday) from NAB.
The Lost Remote team has been covering the heck out of the gigundo NAB conference. It’s almost as good […]