links for 2010-01-29
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"Editorial content started moving online, shrinking to fit computer screens and then even smaller for PDAs and 140-character tweets. The iPad represents the first time this trend has been reversed. Instead of smaller, more low-res content, we have the chance to get bigger, brighter, sharper content. Designers used to making it smaller may have trouble learning to go the other way.”
How to report the news
Just in case you missed it this week, or on all he other sites.
links for 2010-01-26
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Doctors try to challenge the sealing of records on David Kelly's suicide. "Freedom of information experts say there appear to be strong grounds for the legal challenges."
A picture of journalism skills
I recently asked for help from anyone interested in the future (actually that should probably be futures) of journalism to lend a hand with a mini survey on journalism skills. This was prompted by a number of posts and conversations (you can see a couple of them by following the link above).
In total 75 kind people volunteered their time and effort to answer the questions. I’m going to get to grips with it and add my two pence/cents worth on it over the next few days.
But rather than just sit on it until marking hell becomes a little easier, I’ve screen grabbed the graphs returned by the googledocs form and share them here as a slideshow (in no particular order).
(Just in case you have an issue with Flash widgets, here is the Flickr set of the images)
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links for 2010-01-25
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Blogger gets visit from police after making claims about vicar. Police say under harrasment grounds
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News organisations should go beyond simple page views and ask questions of their metrics data
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If a conversation takes place online and you’re not there to hear it, did it actually happen?
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Discussion about linked data event and links to blogs and presentations
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Location, location, location – news gets local and social (via @kevglobal)
links for 2010-01-22
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The British election may not be as social media as the American presidential campaing
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5 across, seven letters: Pancake flippers
links for 2010-01-21
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Edupunk rides again – journalists, you may recognise a lot of this kind of idea from the changes going on the industry.
links for 2010-01-20
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Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) shows how you can query a google spreadsheet like a database
Data mashing presentation from @psychemedia at News:Rewired
Haven’t had time to do much with it yet – so thought I’d share rather than wait – but here is the audio from Tony Hirst , aka @psychemedia, who made a presentation on in-browser data mashing at the News:Rewired conference. (again I’ve set it to download, pls link back to this page if you use it etc)
Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) on data mashing by egrommet
And here’s the presentation.
Apologies to the brilliant Francis Irving from MySociety – who gave a great session – my audio recorder cut out and I didn’t know until the end of the session!
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links for 2010-01-19
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View from editors weblog about te future of investigative journalism in the US