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Useful Firefox Add-ons for Journalists, Part 1
5 hours 57 min agoOne of the main reasons I love the Firefox Web browser (available for Mac, Linux, and Windows) is because you can customize it with useful add-on extensions. This allows one program to serve many...
Categories: Internet design, media, technology
Mini-Tidbits: Ad Poaching, 2009 Predictions, More ...
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 12:42pmHere are some stories that caught my eye heading into the new year:-- Advertising Age reports on how behavioral ad targeting is punishing Web publishers:Who's the most valuable surfer on the Web? For...
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NewsTechZilla: Helping Journalists Catch Up with Digital Media
Fri, 01/02/2009 - 12:49pmOn Jan. 1, two Tennessee bloggers launched a resource site to help journalists understand and use digital media technology: NewsTechZilla. This site will focus on beginner-level tutorials and tips to...
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Mini-Tidbits: Net News Overtakes Papers, More...
Wed, 12/31/2008 - 12:10pmInternet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press): I suspect advertising networks and agencies have noticed this new research: "For the first time in a...
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Gaza Battles on Twitter, Blogs
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 4:59pmI wish I could say that Twitter is providing useful, on-the-ground, independent reports of the Israeli military action in Gaza and the Hamas bombing of southern Israel. But all I have found there so...
Categories: Internet design, media, technology
Future Sports News Idea: Teams Buy News Hole, Not Editorial Control
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 12:53pmA number of years and a couple of careers ago, when I was the (exclusively) print sports editor of the Lansing State Journal, it was not unusual for a coach or the athletic director at Michigan State...
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JournoTweeting
Mon, 12/29/2008 - 12:15pm1. Get a Twitter account. ( http://www.twitter.com ) Amy Gahran offers step-by-step instructions on configuring your account.2. Follow other twitters. Try using the "Find People" tool, or for...
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Sortable Obama Inaugural Donations Available Online
Fri, 12/26/2008 - 12:39pmPresident-elect Barack Obama's upcoming inauguration is going to be expensive: up to $40 million. To help pay for it, his transition team is taking donations. To their credit, they're being...
Categories: Internet design, media, technology
NYTimes.com, Spokesman.com Raise the Bar on Transparency, Again
Wed, 12/24/2008 - 12:29pmA couple of decades ago, in recognition of the value of openness, news organizations began hiring ombudsmen (Clark Hoyt, Debra Howell and Alicia Shepard among the current generation). A couple of...
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Tennessee Coal Ash Spill: Who's Covering It -- or Not?
Tue, 12/23/2008 - 6:31pmAround 1 a.m. yesterday, a dam burst near Harriman, TN. This wasn't just any dam: it held back millions of cubic yards of sodden fly ash -- the toxic byproduct of coal burning at the Tennesee Valley...
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Remembering 2008 Visually
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 1:46pmIt's hard to be the Web site for a radio station if you only consider your mission to be an audio space. But when you visualize yourself as a media site, your options become rich. Chile's Radio...
Categories: Internet design, media, technology
Mini Tidbits: Activist Journalism, Instant Snowstorm Site, More...
Fri, 12/19/2008 - 3:52pmNewsrooms must get active to survive the economic meltdown (OJR): Robert Niles writes: "Allow me to suggest that the U.S. news industry's collective failure to accurately portray the world over the...
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D.C. Bureau Cuts = Journalism 2.0 Opportunity?
Thu, 12/18/2008 - 2:26pmToday the New York Times reports on Washington bureau cutbacks by major media corporations. They offer a litany of the usual reasons, including media mergers and financial reversals. The article says...
Categories: Internet design, media, technology
Mini-Tidbits: NewsMixer, NY Times Fortunetelling, More...
Wed, 12/17/2008 - 4:34pmNewsMixer Offers Better Engagement (IdeaLab): Tidbits contributor Rich Gordon writes of this Medill student project, "NewsMixer melds three commenting structures (question and answer, short-format...
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Help A Reporter Out: What Do Journalists Really Want?
Tue, 12/16/2008 - 10:13amWe spend a lot of time, we media folk, debating what our evolving readership wants us to give them online: Rich content or lean? Structure or flexibility? Depth or speed? Sizzle or steak?We might...
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Miami Herald Editor: The Paper is Not the Future
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:46pmThis week, Liza Gross, Managing Editor, Presentation and Operations for the Miami Herald, was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, presenting about multimedia in the news to a media industry seminar. She also...
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Avisen.dk: Newspaper Without Paper, Doing Well
Mon, 12/15/2008 - 11:25amThese days, many U.S. newspaper publishers are trying to calculate how long they can keep their papers afloat. Those who have already done this calculation are also trying to calculate whether or not...
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Pulitzers Now Open to Online-Only Entrants (Well, Sort Of...)
Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:36pmToday in the PBS MediaShift blog, Simon Owens digs further into the recent announcement that the Pulitzer Prize Board will now consider entries from online-only news organizations in all 14 of its...
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Tipsheet Approach to News: The Launching Point IS the Point
Thu, 12/11/2008 - 5:11pmTypically news is presented in narrative story format (text, audio, or video). Often, that works well enough. But what about when people want to dig into issues on their own? What if they want to...
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Windy Citizen Uses Cool Tools to Cover Blagojevich
Wed, 12/10/2008 - 1:04pmAs the ripples spread from Chicago's latest corruption drama, the community news site Windy Citizen is trying some innovative, fun approaches to online coverage and commentary. They did this using...
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