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May 07, 2006

Image capture

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

The online Chi-town Daily News is connecting with readers and inexpensively illustrating its news. The citizen journalism/hyperlocal news site gets readers to tag their photos at Flickr and then hooks into the photo service to serve the results on... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Photography | chi-town daily news | flickr

March 09, 2006

Adding language

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Interesting news from Denver, via cyberjournalist.net, where the Denver Post has become the first American newspaper to add Spanish-language video clips (voiceovers of slideshows) at its web site. According to the report, Denver’s population is 35 per cent Hispanic.... ›››

Category: General | Newspapers | Online media | community | languages

March 08, 2006

Mashing the news

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

If an engaged citizen can produce as interesting and compelling a piece of journalism as onNYturf.com has done with Atlantic Yards, why can’t well-funded and staffed media organizations do the same? Atlantic Yards (yes, it is journalism with a... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology | mashup

From the hurricane zone

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Joe Weiss has produced a wonderful piece of multimedia journalism in Six months after Katrina, for Raleigh’s newsobserver.com. The stories themselves — a series of minute-and-a-half videos featuring the survivors of the hurricane horror — are moving and provide... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | Online media | Rethinking media | video

March 02, 2006

It’s special

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Jay Rosen and has NYU journalism students have unwrapped Blue Plate Special, an extension of the essential PressThink, that aims to dig deep into the place where journalism and ‘net combine. (Disclosure: The site says “by Jay Rosen, his... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | blue plate special | jay rosen

February 28, 2006

The news numbers

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

A Baltimore Sun piece titled 61% get local news from newspapers is getting a lot of link love today but I’m not sure there’s a huge level of comfort in it for newspaper publishers. Nick Madigan’s piece reports on... ›››

Category: General | Media Business | Newspapers | Online media | Rethinking media | local news

January 31, 2006

Always-on deadline

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Interesting words from Armando Acuña, public editor at the Sacramento Bee (free registration required) With little fanfare, The Bee has embarked on the road to its future - a digital, multi-media, interactive, around-the-clock news universe. Everyone knows the final... ›››

Category: General | Media Business | Newspapers | Online media | Rethinking media | deadlines

January 29, 2006

Showing the forgotten

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

The Forgotten People: Starting over in America, is a stunning and moving multimedia presentation by Dai Sugano and the Mercury News. The narrated slide show, in four chapters, tells the story of a Hmong family and their journey from... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | Online media | Photojournalism

January 26, 2006

Dissecting Dan

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

There’s a lot of bandwidth being eaten up by analysis of Dan Gillmor’s soul-baring post on Bayosphere, in which he limns the lessons he’s learned from the experience and offers bare hints at the future of the site now... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Rethinking media | aggregation | bayosphere | grassroots journalism

January 20, 2006

Watching the wizards

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Andrew DeVigal has added some new links to his Interactive Narratives database, including one I had to try out right away. EP3, from the Spanish daily El Pais, seems to be an online multimedia magazine of some inventiveness and... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | OJOS DE BRUJO | Online media

January 17, 2006

It’s just software

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

This quote, stolen from Jim Romenesko, is one of the most sensible things I’ve read in some time: “Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology,” writes Simon Dumenco. “Even though I tend... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology

December 29, 2005

New journalism, new ways

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Ken Moritsugu has a pair of very interesting articles on the disparity of tsunami aid in southern India. They are informative and well-written, and accompanied by a narrated slideshow that shows life in the area, and by almost a... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Rethinking media

December 28, 2005

Finding new journalism

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Jonathan Dube at Cyberjournalist.net has come up with his list of Top online media stories of 2005, based on the most popular reports at his must-read site. Not surprisingly, four of the top 10 are related to online media’s... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology

Expanding ad space

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

News this week is that the Washington Post is extending the amount of time its articles remain out in public from 14 days to 60. (After that, access is by subscription.). That’s an interesting move for a number of... ›››

Category: General | Media Business | Online media

December 19, 2005

Serious gear lust

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Jonathan Dube at cyberjournalist.net is highlighting the annual list of cutting edge news-gathering tools. Ifra has announced the winners of its annual NewsGear evaluation of advanced newsgathering technology, recommending two dozen pieces of cutting-edge digital gadgetry in NewsGear 2006.... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Technology

December 17, 2005

Online journalism’s strengths

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

This screenshot from Paid Content is as clear an example as I’ve seen of some of the strengths of online journalism (the image is as clear as I could make it: the link above takes you to the site.)... ›››

Category: General | Online media

December 14, 2005

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Looking to 2006

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

R0bin Good has an interesting post on New Media Predictions 2006: What Will The Web Future Bring? His well-thought-out post has 12 predictions, most of which seem to be probable from where I sit. I’m not going to repeat... ›››

Category: General | Online media

December 13, 2005

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Things that confuse me

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

A lot of what happens on the internet — when it comes to new sites, new services or the reinvention of existing sites — confuses me. I can read and understand the words, but I sometimes don’t get the... ›››

Category: General | Online media

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Stumbling into podcasting

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

I’ve just finished filling a CBC survey on podcasting (link near the top right) as my country’s national broadcaster continues its cautious creep into podcasting. The survey is part of CBC’s experiment with podcasting, which began near the start... ›››

Category: General | Online media

December 05, 2005

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Tracking the votes

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

Adrian Holovaty reports on the first large-scale project he’s worked on since being named Editor of Editorial Innovation at the Washington Post and it’s a nice one: a database covering the voting records in the U.S. Congress since 1991.... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Rethinking media

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