Even though a recent graduate of our journalism program wrote a fine story for the Associated Press about the tornadoes that swept across Florida early this morning, I liked the BBC story better. Why? Because of the links in the right rail. Please take a look and see if you agree. This is better. I [...]
I give a lot of thought to training the next generation of journalists. The current generation too (I guess that might be called re-training), but the ones in the classroom get my immediate attention. So I have been thinking about some hardware requirements for journalism students. First, these are only ideas, not policies at my [...]
I’m not saying it will win any prizes, but I’m fairly impressed at what I got with a camera that I could hide in a front jeans pocket (a Canon PowerShot SD700 IS 6MP Digital Elph). Nothing special, just point and shoot. I had never attempted to get any audio with this camera before, but [...]
Among all the awards for advertising, NAA does give out a few Digital Edge awards for, um, journalism. Three sites won “Edgies” for innovative multimedia storytelling: Circulation less than 75,000: Studio 55 vodcast, Naples Daily News (read Rob Curley’s insider story) Circulation 75,000-250,000: John Muir Trail blog, The Fresno Bee Circulation greater than 250,000: Chicagotribune.com, [...]
Bakotopia’s Dan Pachecho told the crowd at NAA that Bakersfield is “rolling out a Yelp-like ‘Insider Guide’ that will contain profiles on local businesses” (source: The Local Onliner). Bakotopia is a site from The Bakersfield Californian, a family-owned newspaper. Pachecho … sees the Guide as a natural extension of a MySpace-like personal profile section. “If [...]
Read the BBC’s 15 Web Principles. My faves: 1. Build web products that meet audience needs 7. Any website is only as good as its worst page 8. Make sure all your content can be linked to, forever 12. Accessibility is not an optional extra 15. Personalisation should be unobtrusive, elegant and transparent Then you [...]
You’re trying to figure out how to increase traffic to your Web site, yes? YouTube’s market share (for all site visits in the U.S.) rose to 0.64 percent (from 0.54 percent) in the week following the inclusion of YouTube videos in the Google Video Search Index (source: Hitwise, via Mashable). That is a one-week growth [...]