Browsing around on SlideShare.net, I found this presentation by Jonathan Boutelle, the chief technology officer of SlideShare. While there’s not a lot of text on each slide (which is, in fact, good), Boutelle has included all his remarks in the comments on each slide. If you’re not on the builder end of online journalism, you [...]
I laughed when I saw this, but it also made me want to go out and try it myself. See the post about how this was done with a point-and-shoot (still) camera and a $58 toy plane at The Long Tail blog. Found via Online News Squared. Technorati tags: photojournalism | photojournalists | multimedia | [...]
So Richard made this little slideshow (in Quicktime) that is hilarious AND true. I have judged a few multimedia contests, and it is a grueling task — largely because people do all the things that Richard tells you NOT TO DO in this slideshow. So watch, listen and LEARN. Maybe you’ll win something. I am [...]
It drives me plumb crazy when I read about defensive practices in news organizations. All it shows is that those people don’t get the Web at all. Locking up content kills content. Freeing up content attracts readers and viewers, browsers and surfers. If you intend to sell advertising, you need more site visitors. So, duh, [...]
Ask and you shall receive answers: I asked how The Sydney Morning Herald manages to get so many intelligent reader comments on its blogs, and Kimberley Porteous, the newspaper’s online community editor (soon to become their multimedia projects editor) sent me this reply via e-mail: I don’t know if I have any secrets to share, [...]
While clicking the links to examples within 16 Ways the News Media Can Use Blogs, I started exploring the blogs from The Sydney Morning Herald. They are really doing some interesting stuff. First, there’s The Backpacker. If you’ve ever traveled abroad on the cheap, you’ve noticed how you meet Australians with backpacks everywhere. The Herald [...]
The editor of the Long Island (N.Y.) daily, John Mancini, sent this: Our viability depends on being Long Island’s preeminent provider of news and information, on platforms existing and yet to be imagined. Our resources need to be centered completely on local coverage in all of its aspects: news, business, sports, features, health and watchdog [...]