Talking about different tools and ways to get future content on devices
Page turners require third party unless you make own
Digital replicas pro cycling looks great “on glass”
Multiplatform opportunity
Sneers from tech colleagues – not for you. Would do it in word if customers want it
Scale achievable and affordable
Quick flag [...]
Simon Rogers from Guardian talking about creating google fusion table as journalists reporting on events
7-800000 page impressions
Started getting arrest data London acquisition (theft) north was violence
But then started to get data from ministry of justice and started mapping
Overlaid poverty index and showed people arrested in Manchester coming from poorer areas
Got [...]
Martin Belam, user experience lead, the guardian
77 per cent of visits from Facebook to guardian.co.uk were one page
Create app as social reading experience
Faces of friends = engagement?
Opt in alterntaive way of doing it
Triggers “frictionless sharing”
Uses guardian open platform api – made rapid development easier
Seen some people really [...]
Liz Heron New York Times
Talking about effect of social media gives example of President Obama engaging with people on Google+ hangout http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/obama-google-plus_n_1242816.html
Over 400 journalists on twitter 50 have subscribe Facebook
Collaborative projects
2011
Arab spring Japan riots
Occupy
Used twitter Facebook tumblr to diversify source [...]
Alex Watson, head of app development dennis publishing, on newwstand
App story is a retail environment and newwstand addresses some of the issues of placement. Previously evo’s app sold in amongst everything else.
80000 igizmo downloads before newsstand
Dennis 3.5m downloads since launch of newsstand
$400000 in revenue
Since launch of news stand [...]
Fascinating discussions going on at the moment about the iPad and its implications for the distribution of media content.
Apologies for the tenuous election link – but it is ironic that the media is thinking about a distribution-sharing deal with Apple and is finding that like David Cameron and Gordon Brown whoever Labour get as their boss, things aren’t always that simple.
Ever since I’ve been involved with the ideas of online/digital/data (delete as appropriate) journalism – I’ve been using the metaphor of Batman’s utility belt as a way of thinking about a journalist’s skillet and how it can evolve over time.
Rather than a rucksack full of tools, [...]
An Aussie bank worker is probably in line for some serious grief from his boss after he was seen looking at naughty pictures of women with very little in the way of clothing, while a colleague was being interviewed by a TV crew from Channel 7.
Sit back and gawp as the camerman zooms in [...]
Just in case you missed it this week, or on all he other sites.
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 [...]
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