Quietness: 7 - avg hours between tweets*** Scroll to the right to see the other column of info... [anyone know why this Blogger template forces everything into the middle, wasting all the screen space?]
Chattiness: 3 - avg Tweets per day
"Twitter is a mixture of the office water cooler and the best possible news sources, and that is a deadly combination," Sreenivasan said. "It puts the onus on the reader, the user, to filter to find information he or she can trust." [the "s" in news sourceS got accidentally dropped].If anyone wants to discuss this, I am at sree[at]sree.net or Tweet me @sreenet
* New York Health Commissioner says anyone who is feeling sick should stay at home, urges people not to go to school or work when sick.
* Anyone who's been ill for 48+ hour is unlikely to benefit from threatment
* incubation period is about 3 days
* "We don't know if it will continue to spread"
* Definite confirmation of swine flu will be available tomorrowCDC main swine flu page: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
Until his August 2005 appointment as deputy managing editor of The New York Times, responsible for digital journalism, Landman was assistant managing editor. In his 21-year career with The Times, he has served as metropolitan editor, editor of The Times’s "Week in Review," acting culture editor, assistant managing editor for enterprise and deputy editor of the Washington bureau. Prior to joining The Times, Landman was deputy city editor at The Daily News, a reporter at Newsday, and a reporter covering education, City Hall and investigative news stories at The Chicago Sun-Times, where he was also assistant city editor. He worked at The Ford Foundation in 1978 and 1979 as assistant to Fred W. Friendly, who was the program advisor of communications. He was assistant editor at Scholastic Magazines from 1975 until 1977. Landman is married to Bonnie Van Gilder ’79.
This morning GMA interview mentioned @WiredMoms as part of an appearance by Internet safety expert Parry Aftab [here's the GMA tweet about it ] . At the time, WiredMoms had 614 followers. Within 15 minutes, the number had shot up to 770, giving GMA a possible IFV of 156 followers (for this specific instance).
Nathan Becker at 2:15am April 16
Fallon also did a pretty cool Twitter experiment earlier in which he picked a random audience member who had Twitter and gave the instructions to "follow this guy on Twitter." As the show was airing and Fallon was asking people to follow Bryan Brinkman, I watched his followers go up by hundreds with each refresh (and I'm in the Central time zone, ... Read Moreso it had already aired on the East Coast. He's got 30K+ followers now. http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/03/twitter-the-bryan-brinkman-experiment/
Sree Sreenivasan at 2:24am April 16
i presume the WAY the twitter feed is mentioned has an impact: the guest casually mentioning it will have only some impact. the guest giving out the specific address (like Ice-T did) will have more. and fallon specifically announcing an experiment and asking people to specifically to follow someone will have a much more obvious effect.
Columbia Journalism School New Media Program Presents...
Reader Information
- There's nothing to do during a Live Event other than read, watch and occasionally send in a comment or vote in the polling questions.
- It's not a chatroom. You go to largely find out what the writer has to say. An open chat with thirty or more readers turns into poor, disjointed content very quickly.
- Your comments are published at the Writer's discretion. The Writer can view all comments sent to them but only they can publish your comments for everyone to see.
- Our 'autoscroll' feature ensures you're always shown the newest content without having to refresh or scroll your screen. You can turn this on or off by using the controls at the bottom of the Viewer Window.
- Subtle sound effects alert you to new content as the writer publishes it. This can also be turned on or off as needed.
50 user-friendly design menusalso see Nav Menus Trends:
Below we present over 50 excellent navigation menus — we feature CSS-based
design solutions, CSS+JavaScript-based menus and Flash-designs. However,
they all have something in common: they are user-friendly yet creative and
perfectly fit to the style of their respective websites.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/04/50-beautiful-and-user-friendly-navigation-menus
The Columbia University Club of Southwest Florida
is pleased to welcome
Professor Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs
and new media professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Friday, February 13, 2009
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The Strand
5840 Strand Boulevard
Naples, Fla.
Reserve your ticket now! RSVPs required by February 9.
The cost to attend for CUCSWFL members and their guests is $25 per person; the cost for non-members and walk-ins is $30.
Please send your check, payable to "CUCSWFL," to P.O. Box 770403, Naples, FL 34107.
Questions or dietary restrictions? Call Dudley Ferrari at 239.254.1434
https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/events/COU2219996.html
10 New Tech Things to Try Today: Improve Your Online Life
Having a tough time keeping up with all the technology changes around you?
Worried that there's some new tech tip or cool site that everyone knows about but you?
If so, this fun, fast-paced seminar aimed at folks of all levels of computer knowledge is for you. You will learn about some terrific new ideas that will make you more efficient and improve your online life. You will leave with more than 10 ideas, a useful handout and a whole new outlook on technology. After this, YOU will be the one showing off to your colleagues, friends and family.
Professor Sreenivasan received his M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where he now runs the school's multimedia program and serves as the Dean of Student Affairs. He runs Internet workshops around the country for journalists and other professionals. As the tech reporter for WNBC-TV, he appears twice a week in the NYC area and occasionally on various NBC News programs.
His work explaining technology to lay readers has appeared in The New York Times, Business Week, Time Digital and Rolling Stone. A co-founder of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, Newsweek named him one of the 20 most influential South Asians in the nation in 2004.
www.sree.net and www.sreetips.com and on Twitter @sreenet
Among the features Kay talks to journalists about: Advanced search: http://www.linkedin.com/search | Answers: http://www.linkedin.com/answers | Applications: http://www.linkedin.com/apps
This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (Wordpress, Delicious, Zoho, etc.), some are for fun (MySpace Music, Hulu, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.
I HATE...long URLs, (i.e. site and story addresses). Because of complex "site architecture," URLs are growing ever longer. For security and in order to preserve the integrity of individual pages, there is a need for long addresses. Doesn't mean I can't hate 'em, especially those that arrive via e-mail when friends send links (sometimes, these links, which can be 2-4 lines long, get broken and then when you click, nothing happens).
An example: Here is the URL for the MapQuest map for the Poynter neighborhood: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=801+third+st+south&city=st.+petersburg&state=fl&zipcode=&homesubmit=Get+Map
That's way too long for my taste -- and often, my e-mail reader.
The solution: Free services that shorten your URL for you, giving you a short link you can forward. Among them: TinyURL.com and MakeAShorterLink.com.
My new favorite is SnURL.com, the shorter URL of SnipURL.com (which goes to the same page). Cut and paste a long URL into Snurl and it gives you a shorter URL you can then share. The MapQuest map, once SnURL-ed, becomes just http://snurl.com/2cpo (just 21 characters, the original had 145). But the feature I like on SnURL is called SNIP THIS! If you use Internet Explorer, you can drag a small link labeled "Snip This!" onto your links bar in the browser. After that, whenever you are on a page with a long URL, you don't need to go back to SnURL. Just click on Snip This! and you get a snipped version in a pop-up window.
Three other useful things it does: That pop-up window closes automatically in 15 seconds (wish I could say the same for pop-up ads around the web); you need not hit copy (CTRL-C) or cut (CTRL-X) to copy the shorter URL. It gets added to your computer's "clipboard" and all you have to do is hit paste (CTRL-V); and you can create a personalized, unique ending for the short URL.And I have been a die-hard SnipURLer ever since, using it especially to generate easy-to-remember URLs (eg, http://snurl.com/columbialectures for a long URL of a Google Spreadsheet). It is especially useful in generating short URLs for Twitter and Facebook, where every character counts.
With the “topless” (as in laptopless) meeting idea getting so much coverage, I thought I would put up the “rules” I came up with back in 2006 when I jokingly coined the term. (Note that this banning of laptops can and should spread to other attention-sucking devices. I’m looking at you, Blackberry. You too, iPhone.)Read his guidelines here.
1. Share ideas.Read the full item here and post your comments below.
2. Show respect.
3. Build your brand.
4. Engage customers.
5. Provide customer service.
The film is available at the Library of Congress in the Prelinger collection — a bizarre and wonderful resource for years’ worth of industrials, educational films, public-service announcements, and other “ephemeral” moving images — that was privately held in NY for years (and beloved by documentary makers) before it was donated to the Library. This film was made in 1940 as part of an educational series on vocations and professions.A description and collection of the films for various professions are available on this page at Archive.org, with this description: "...a set of educational shorts from the early 1940’s meant to inspire young post-depression workers into specific new careers." You can watch 2,000 films from the Prelinger collection here: http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
For a project I'm working on, I need to review the best websites for women. Just wondering if you have any you'd particularly recommend. (Glad you reminded me of babble during your presentation.)I sent her two links to get her started as she looks for leads.
The New York TimesFull story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/business/media/24health.html
November 23, 2008
Foundation Starts Health Policy News Service
By KEVIN SACK
Seeking to fill a niche left by the decline of the traditional news media, the Kaiser Family
Foundation is starting a news service to produce in-depth coverage of the policy and politics of health care, both for an independent Web site and in collaborations with mainstream news organizations.
With a budget that is expected to reach $3 million to $4 million in two years, the project is one of the most ambitious in a wave of nonprofit online ventures that have emerged as newspapers and magazines cut jobs and newsgathering budgets.
Kaiser, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., has hired two highly regarded journalists to run the Kaiser Health News, based in Washington: Laurie McGinley, formerly the deputy bureau chief for global economics at The Wall Street Journal, and Peggy Girshman, a top editor at Congressional Quarterly and previously at National Public Radio.
His presentation covers several interesting aspects of time management and productivity including renegotiating your commitments, controlling who has access to your limited resources like time and output, and qualifying how your commit yourself to tasks to create a more sane work environment. The video is thirty five minutes and worth the watch for a solid set of productivity principles to help you start this coming week on the right foot.In 2006, he explained to Lifehacker how he does his work and manages his own time.
Sree - just had my first gmail video/audio chat with AnupKaphle... it's amazing technology. have no need now to use skype. works on PC and mac.via Twitter - 11:24pm
Sree Sreenivasan at 11:27pm November 12here's the link to get started:
http://www.google.com/mail/help/videochat/learnmore. html Anup Kaphle at 11:39pm November 12there is no way to chat with more than one person at the same time.Anup Kaphle at 11:43pm November 12Will employers block gmail at work now? They wouldn't want their employees video-conferencing for non-business purposes all day!Stanley Mieses at 11:55pm November 12"Not available for Power PC Macs."Anup Kaphle at 11:56pm November 12From google: "Even if your friend doesn't have a video camera, you can still make a voice call or a 1-way video call."Anup Kaphle at 12:12am November 13just realized that I could click on the arrow on the nav bar and actually get a normal messenger size box. Love it.Marj Kleinman at 12:14am November 13this is awesome. are they gonna put skype out of biz?Dave Burdick at 12:15am November 13Pretty cool stuff, to be sure. I like it better than other video chats.Marj Kleinman at 12:24am November 13interesting that we're all here chatting about video chat "there"...not fully integrated yet.Ratan Sethi at 4:55am November 13Just installed and tested it. Both the voice and video work beautifully!Collin Tate Crowell at 2:45pm November 13I love it. I've already replaced Skype with Google in video chatting with friends and contacts in China. I only wish we could index and save v-chat sessions like I do with Audio Hijack on Skype.
YouTube has been quietly offering high-quality versions of some of their videos for quite some time via a "watch in high quality" link just underneath the player. It's not HD, but it's definitely an upgrade of YouTube's legendarily crappy video quality. By default all videos on YouTube and embedded on other sites load at normal quality, but there's a way to set your default viewing quality to high, link to high quality video, embed HQ video, and even save HQ videos for later viewing.See the rest of the info.
Go to Google.com, type your search phrase and append the following parameters to your search query: site:youtube.com "watch in normal quality watch in high quality"Post your comments below.
This election has inspired some web-driven journalistic projects thatHere are some of the examples that came in via feedback:
I found very interesting. Two projects that I like use blogs as their
main platform, have some of their work pubbed by larger organizations
and involve road trips across the U.S.. I guess, road trips can give a
project geographic scope while adding a personal touch to them.
Here are two guys who are going to 18 states in 18 days:
http://redblueroadtrip.blogspot.com/
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/uselections2008/2008/10/200810206237974380.html
And here a blog from recent graduate Matthias Bernold:
In German: http://besusbonton.wordpress.com/
In English: http://rovingreporters2008.wordpress.com/
Other roadtrip projects:
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/uselectionroadtrip/2008/oct/13/uselections2008
NYT: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/r/road_to_november/index.html
PBS: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/paroadtripjudy/index.html?type=flash
NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93959692
Feels like the larger organizations are trying to pull off a very
personable approach, though I kind of like the three freelancers'
approach more.
Comments appreciated!
Lam
From Anne Nelson:
See also the roadtrip blogs from J School grad Paula Lugones for Clarin of Buenos Aires, in
which she and a colleague cover the U.S. elections traveling across Route 66. Check it out!
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2008/10/10/conexiones/inicio_ruta.html
From John McGrath:
fivethirtyeight.com has been doing a road trip too, focused largely on
visiting campaign offices in the battleground states. here's their latest road trip post:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/road-to-270-arizona.html
ElectionCycle.com is a 50-day bicycle adventure and journalistic endeavor to increase issue awareness during the final months of the 2008 presidential election. My route will begin in New York City on September 14th and will take me through a dozen states before ending in New Orleans a few days before the election. While on the road I will be meeting with Americans from a variety of backgrounds, interviewing potential voters and discussing the issues that matter to them. My goal is to successfully profile “50 Voters in 50 Days” in order to discover the issues that determine their vote.
Local Food – the people who produce it, eat it and sell it. Welcome to Taste of Local, a multimedia blog dedicated to exploring local food.
Not local in the sense of a neighborhood restaurant, but rather a neighborhood restaurant that serves produce from its rooftop garden. We are looking at food sources, the distance food travels and everything that goes with it.
If you go here, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553, and scroll down to the "debates" section you can see the real deal. Pretty cool interactive.
Dear Internet Friend,I speak to thousands of people all over the country about the Future of the Internet, Internet Safety and many other topics. One thing remains constant: Attendees love when I introduce them to incredible Web sites.So, here's a blast from the past: Ten incredible Web sites. No descriptions, just go to them. After all, they're incredible . . .-- Google's New Browser -- A Winner...Bye, Bye IE and Firefox ---- Take Me Directly to Voice Mail ---- Got a Question? ChaCha Has the Answer ---- Too Much Information on the Net? Alltop, Sorta Helps ---- Like Doing Reviews? Yelp About It! ---- Create Your Own Talk Radio Show ... for Free ---- No Doubt, My Favorite Site on the Net (Online Educational Video)... My Favorite: David Gallo ---- Free Documentary Films ...With the current credit crisis, you might want to watch: In Debt We Trust-- Mr. Spock's Wisdom ... This site was in my first book (11 years ago). Still fun after all these years! --Know of an incredible site that I've missed? Shoot it to Ken@Leebow.com.Wishing you Net Speed,Ken Leebow
What do you think? Post your comments below.Maghound offers magazine in a Netflix-style formula
So you've heard of Netflix and probably some of its various offshoots -- Bag Borrow or Steal, Book Swim, Gamefly and so forth. A week ago, a new version of this business model hit the Internets: Maghound. Despite its Web 2.0-esque color scheme and the presence of a "beta" below the company logo, this isn't some new Silicon Valley start-up. Rather, it's the brainchild of Time Inc.
For at least $5 per month, you can get a rotating subscription to various magazines. Not surprisingly, these mainly include Time Inc. titles, like, erm, Time magazine. But there's no Playboy, no Foreign Policy, no Wired, no New Yorker, no Atlantic, no Economist. So you pick three zines, throw down five bucks, and you can change up the titles every month.
Now here's the real question? Will a site like this actually work for printed, ink-and-paper magazines? Based on my own magazine subscriptions, I'm going to say no. I used to get the New Yorker, the Economist, Wired and the Atlantic. Now I only get magazines that I don't pay for, like the California Alumni magazine. I read those other ones online sometimes and then occasionally when friends e-mail me or hand me printed articles. But I probably wouldn't throw down any money -- even just a fiver -- to read a couple issues of some magazine before moving on to another one.
Dear Students:
Columbia's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning teamed up with the Journalism School this summer to create a new and dynamic reporting resource for our RW1 students.
This electronic map of New York City allows our students to view an array of census data neighborhood by neighborhood, election district by election district, and beyond.
Look for it at: http://jour6001-000-2008-3.wikispaces.columbia.edu/
You should be able to manipulate the data and import portions of this map to illustrate their stories online. It's accessible on Google Earth, which is downloaded in all the student labs and RW1 professors' computers.
Stay tuned for some quick in-house sessions on how to use it for faculty and students. In the meantime, please contact Maria Janelli (mjanelli[at]columbia.edu) with any questions you have. She is the CCNMTL architect of the map.
Enjoy!
L. Hancock
We're meeting up on Tuesday, September 23 at 5:00 pm at the Stabile Student Center to talk more about it, brainstorm and see who is interested in applying. Another meeting will take place Wednesday, the 24th at 5:45 in the same place.Sign up for our new FB discussion thread on the J-school 2009 group: http://www.new.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10497300901&topic=6984
- Project digitally focused. Has to be online, web-based, with a local and geographic focus, pick a town to start with, have a local hook
- Has to serve public interest
- Open-source re-scalability, you have to be willing to share it
- Either share the code, or share the learning and tell people what you've done
- To mashup or to replicate and roll out
- Think about how something like YouTube serves the public interest
- Calling it a journalism program doesn't fit anymore...
- you can think of something that is more content based, but even if you are a more web focused tech person who wants to develop some software, you can apply, platforms and tools - like Drupal.
- Last year, you had the choice of making the idea open or closed, but this year they're all open on the garage because it's not the idea, it's the ability to execute it
How to contribute to the J-school Twitter feed:
- create an account at http://twitter.com
- include #cu09 anywhere in your post and it will appear at
twitter.com/j_school.
Questions to mail[at]franz-strasser.com
- please make sure your "tweet" has something to do with the j-school when you decide to include #cu09 (if you don't, you can still post messages on your own account).
In partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, YouTube presents Project: Report, a first of its kind program that encourages aspiring journalists--that mean all of you!-- to produce short, high-quality video pieces focused on stories that are not usually covered by the traditional media.I wanted to let you know about a new video trivia game we've just released there through the music app iLike.
It's called "What's Your Obama iCue?", and it is a 10 question video trivia quiz that
you can play over and over and get different results. The clues are :30 NBC News
clips, and after each question, you have the opportunity to pause and view the entire
video.
We will be releasing a new game every week or so between now and the election. This
week was an Obama quiz, next week is McCain, then VPs, etc.
If you have the ilike ap installed, you can get to the featured challenge here:
http://apps.new.facebook.com/ilike/challenges [apps.new.facebook.com]
Enjoy -- and please pass on to your students!
Josh
Josh Holbreich
NBC News Education Initiatives
30 Rockefeller Plaza
"On the Media"
That's what Julio Ojeda-Zapata tells Bob Garfield. The St. Paul Pioneer Press tech reporter uses Twitter to find sources and collect anedcotes for stories, but knows "I have to be very conscious of the fact that this is a silo. This is one group of people. I can't overly rely on these people. I have to find sources by other means, as well." || Clay Shirky also discusses Twitter with Garfield. || More transcripts and audio from the latest "OTM."
This week, Microsoft Live Labs is releasing its first broad consumer Web service, called Photosynth. This service turns multiple photos of a scene or site -- say, an art gallery or a building -- into a 3-D scene you can virtually "walk" through on the Web.
Unlike a simple 2-D panorama, which many photo programs can create from several pictures, a Photosynth creation, called a "synth," is a virtual 3-D environment. It gives you the feeling you are in the middle of a room looking around, or circumnavigating a building or object. You can travel through a scene both laterally and vertically, and zoom in to see detailed, higher-resolution views of objects inside the synth, such as paintings on a wall.
For instance, you don't just see a long, flat picture of Stonehenge or the Grand Canal in Venice. You are made to feel you are there, moving through these places, looking up at the sky or down at the ground, and pausing to examine more closely a particular stone, boat or building.
Photosynth, based on technology Microsoft acquired in 2006, is entirely free, and it's entirely based on the Web, at photosynth.net (where it will be launched at midnight EST Thursday). At that site you can view not only your own synths, but the synths created by every other Photosynth user.
What do you think?
Photosynth works within a Web browser, using a small plug-in you install. Currently, it works only in Windows, using Microsoft's own Internet Explorer browser or its rival, Firefox. A Macintosh version is in the works, but for now, you can't even view others' synths in the Mac operating system.
He's also the current president of the Online News Association.I am pleased to announce that Jonathan Dube will be returning to ABCNews.com next month as the new Vice President in charge of our website. Jonathan worked with us in the early days of our site and then went on to a tour at MSNBC.com. Most recently he has been in charge of the digital platforms at the Canadian Broadcasting Company. In his new role at ABC News Digital, Jonathan will oversee the strategic planning, business strategy, editorial content, and production of our website. Jonathan will report to Paul Slavin.
JONATHAN DUBECongrats to Jon. His website: JonDube.com
Vice President, ABCNEWS.com
Jonathan Dube was named vice president of ABCNEWS.com in August 2008. He is responsible for the strategic planning, business strategy, editorial content and production of the network’s 24-hour online news service.
Mr. Dube joined ABC News from CBC News (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), where he was Director of Digital Media responsible for leading the strategic planning, product development, editorial programming and delivery of CBC News across digital media platforms. Prior to this position, Mr. Dube served as the Editorial Director for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Web site, CBC.ca, where he oversaw the editorial content for Canada’s largest news and sports site.
Mr. Dube also currently serves as president and board member of the international Online News Association, overseeing the world's largest association of online journalists, with more than 1,500 members.
From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Dube was the managing producer of MSNBC.com. In that role, he oversaw site-wide editorial planning, the front page of the news site and worked on strategic initiatives. He first joined MSNBC.com in 2000 as technology editor and later served as senior producer.
In 1999, Mr. Dube worked with ABCNEWS.com for the first time as a national producer where he wrote, edited and produced national and international news such as the Columbine High School shooting, Microsoft trial and World Trade Organization protests.
Prior to joining ABCNEWS.com, Mr. Dube had spent most of his career in the newspaper industry. He covered local breaking news for The New York Times and New York Newsday, Connecticut state politics for The Danbury News-Times, and crime in the south for The Charlotte Observer. While at The Observer, he co-wrote a Weblog covering Hurricane Bonnie in 1998, the first time a news site used the Weblog format to cover breaking news.
Mr. Dube has received numerous honors throughout his career. He won the first national Online Journalism Award for Breaking News for his coverage of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle for ABCNews.com. At CBC News, he led the website to major awards in Canada and internationally, including numerous RTNDA Canada Awards and an EPpy Award. He has also won four online journalism awards and two investigative reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as the first-ever new media award from Columbia University.
Additionally, Mr. Dube is the founder and publisher of CyberJournalist.net, a resource site for journalists. He writes a Web Tips column for Poynter.org, the Web site of The Poynter Institute. He has written about online journalism as a contributor to two books: Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century, by Christopher Scanlan (1999); and Shop Talk and War Stories: Journalists Examine Their Profession, by Janice Winburn (2003).
Mr. Dube is a native New Yorker and has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University. He has a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he studied new media.
David Stout, who virtually invented the job of continuous news reporter at nytimes.com, is taking questions from readers this week. This is a great opportunity for the incoming Columbia students to ask a real veteran questions about both reporting and the role of new media. Here's the link to the feature: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/washington/11askthetimes.html. If you could pass the word, it would be much appreciated.Take a look, folks.
The worst thing a professor can do is stop learning. That's why, after three years out of the newsroom, I wanted to be a 40-year-old intern this summer. My inspiration was a session at the American Copy Editors Society national conference, where I participated in a discussion about the Web's impact on editing. As worthwhile as that session was, I knew I needed more firsthand experience at a newspaper Web site. I needed to learn.Full list here: http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=148559
To that end, I landed an "internship" at the Web site of the Los Angeles Times. (Disclaimer: My official title was "contractor," and I was paid $3,000 for my work.) I'm grateful that the paper found a place for me, given its problems with the economy and new ownership. In my seven weeks in California, I brushed up on my editing skills and picked up new ones. Here's a look at eight things I learned:
See a note about the most recent News21 project at Columbia, which was launched last week. Watch for more information about the spring and summer 2009 project, coming later this fall.
Jody Brannon, a digital media leader who has held top editor positions at MSN.com, USAToday.com and washingtonpost.com, will direct a 12-university, $7.5 million project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to explore new ways to produce in-depth multimedia journalism.
Brannon will be national director of the Carnegie-Knight News21 journalism initiative, which moved last month to the new Phoenix home of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Facebook, the rapidly growing social network, unveiled some new features on Wednesday as it works to broaden its reach online and to recalibrate its sometimes contentious relationship with the thousands of developers writing programs for the service.Comments?
...Facebook announced a series of new incentives for developers to write what it characterized as "meaningful" tools for the service. It said it would pick certain applications that meet a set of Facebook principles to be part of a new "Great Apps" program.
Those applications will get higher visibility on the service and will be able to work more closely with Facebook. Causes, a charitable giving tool, and iLike, a music sharing service, were the first two applications to receive this designation.
If you don't get a ton of mail, just typing in the words you're looking for usually does the trick. I can just type lisa in the search box and get all of the messages from my friend Lisa, southwest to bring up my ticket confirmations, or "bank statement" to help get my finances in order.
But the real power of Gmail search lies in search operators -- words that help modify your queries. Search operators work pretty much the same way within Gmail as they do for Google. So, if I want the email Lisa sent me with her flight information so I know when to pick her up at the airport, I type from:lisa SFO. Likewise:
* A link from my co-worker Michael: from:michael http
* A photo from my mom: from:mom has:attachment
* That last chat I had with one of the Gmail product managers: keith is:chat
* All messages from ebay that aren't outbid notices: ebay -outbid (the hyphen tells Gmail to return all of the messages that don't contain the word that follows it)
* The messages in my inbox sent directly to me that I haven't read yet: to:me is:unread in:inbox
If remembering operators isn't really your thing, that's ok. There's a "Show search options" link to the right of the search bar at the top of your inbox.See a list of all the advanced search tips here (you might want to - gasp! - print it out and keep it near you computer.
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New York Institute of Technology
Communication Arts department (Old Westbury)
Online/Interactive Media and Electronic Journalism (tenure-track assistant professor)This tenure-track position requires a terminal degree in online/interactive media and/or electronic journalism. Previous teaching experience preferred. Relevant professional business/industry experience is highly desirable. Diverse applicants from the broadest variety of relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply. The candidate will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in teaching, scholarship and service in addition to mentoring students and building professional relationships with other faculty and outside resources.
Specific responsibilities will likely include:
- Teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in both theory and practice of print and broadcast journalism, online journalism, blogging, digital media and other web- related media classes.
- Contribute to the department’s push toward online centers of excellence including the department’s nightly news program “Long Island News Tonight” and help further develop its interactive, media-rich website.
- The overall category of teaching including areas such as: classroom teaching; curriculum and program development; application of technology to education.
- The overall category of scholarship including areas such as: research activities; papers and publications; demonstration of professional competence appropriate to your discipline.
- The overall category of service including areas such as: student advisement and mentoring; student recruitment and retention; service to the NYIT community; service to the community at large.
Review of applications will begin May 15, 2008 and continue until the position is filled, with an estimated starting date of September 1, 2008.
To learn more about this position, please visit the department website http://iris.nyit.edu/commarts/ and college website http://www.nyit.edu/
Send electronic submissions to Robert Sherwin at: rsherwin[at]nyit.edu or mail to Robert Sherwin, Chairperson, Communication Arts (OW campus), New York Institute of Technology, DeSeversky Center, Northern Blvd, Old Westbury, NY 11568
| NEW MEDIA PROGRAM OVERVIEW 2008-2009 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
NEW MEDIA FACULTY Sree Sreenivasan, J1993 Dean of Student Affairs; WNBC technology reporter sree@sree.net | www.sree.net Duy Linh Tu, J1999: founder, Resolution Seven duy@duylinhtu.com | www.DuyLinhTu.com Russell Chun: author of five books on Flash russell_chun@yahoo.com | www.RussellChun.com Michael Cervieri, J2002: founder, Scribe Media michael@cervieri.com | www.ScribeMedia.org Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, J2007: video journalist, NYTimes.com ars2157@columbia.edu Sig Gissler: administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes sg138@columbia.edu | Jennifer Johnson, J2002: senior editor, WSJ.com; jenniferbrooke@gmail.com Jennifer Brown, J2003: executive producer, TodayShow.com lucybrown80@gmail.com Adam Glenn: freelance multimedia consultant; aadamglenn@hotmail.com Jeff Gralnick: former executive producer and VP of ABC News jeff@jeffgralnick.com Carla Baranauckas: senior editor, NYTimes.com carlab@nytimes.com Laura Muha: editor, ColumbiaJournalist.org; freelance writer ljm31@columbia.edu Jennifer Preston: editor, NYT regional sections jepresto@nytimes.com Nancy Sharkey: editor, NYT |
| NEW MEDIA PROGRAM OVERVIEW 2008-2009 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| COURSES OF INSTRUCTION SUMMER & FALL RW1 Multimedia Training: Every RW1 student will receive hands-on multimedia training in photography, audio slideshows, content management systems, as well as writing for the web. SUMMER, FALL & SPRING New Media Skills: A five-week course for print and broadcast students to learn multimedia. FALL New Media Newsroom: Two sections of this 12-week course for new media majors that teaches everything from interactive storytelling to Dreamweaver to web mapping to Flash. A separate section, with a lighter load, will be offered for non-NM majors. Elections Project - Third Rail A web project covering New York City and national elections produced each fall by a staff of 50 new media, print and broadcast students. | FALL & SPRING Evidence & Inference This M.A. course has a major web component. FALL & SPRING New Media Master's Project: A seven-month course that results in a major online project. SPRING New Media Workshop A: Multimedia Production and Visual Storytelling An in-depth 15-week workshop for new media majors that combines traditional reporting and writing skills with the best of multimedia journalism. New Media Workshop B: Interactive Media Storytelling An in-depth 15-week workshop for new media majors that combines traditional reporting and writing skills with the best of interactive digital media storytelling techniques. New Media Elective: A 15-week multimedia course for print and broadcast majors. |
NEW MEDIA FACULTY Sree Sreenivasan, J1993 Dean of Student Affairs; WNBC technology reporter sree@sree.net | www.sree.net Duy Linh Tu, J1998: founder, Resolution Seven duy@duylinhtu.com | www.DuyLinhTu.com Russell Chun: author of five books on Flash russell_chun@yahoo.com | www.RussellChun.com Michael Cervieri, J2002: founder, Scribe Media michael@cervieri.com | www.ScribeMedia.org Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, J2007: video journalist, NYTimes.com ars2157@columbia.edu Sig Gissler: administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes sg138@columbia.edu | Jennifer Johnson, J2002: senior editor, WSJ.com; jenniferbrooke@gmail.com Jennifer Brown, J2003: executive producer, TodayShow.com lucybrown80@gmail.com Adam Glenn: freelance multimedia consultant; aadamglenn@hotmail.com Jeff Gralnick: former executive producer and VP of ABC News jeff@jeffgralnick.com Carla Baranauckas: senior editor, NYTimes.com carlab@nytimes.com Laura Muha: editor, ColumbiaJournalist.org; freelance writer ljm31@columbia.edu Jennifer Preston: editor, NYT regional sections jepresto@nytimes.com |
A webmaster's work is never done. What may have worked a few years ago when could be outdated today, so it's important to constantly improve your Web site. However, a massive overhaul is just too much work to undertake at one time. Instead, tackle these quick fixes over time, and you'll be able to improve your Web site with minimal pain.Aimed mostly at business sites, but some good tips for journalism sites, too. Take a look at the full list.
Read rest of the item here: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Find_Lost_Web_PagesFind Lost Web Pages
From Wired How-To Wiki
There's nothing more frustrating than searching for a page, finding what looks like a promising result, and then clicking though only to discover that the page is gone. Unfortunately it happens all the time. Servers get jammed, pages are removed, some servers move and some servers are simply no longer maintained. But what happens you want to find a page that's vanished?
The answer depends partly on why the page isn't showing up.
See the rest of the list and the post at http://photojojo.com/content/tips/legal-rights-of-photographers/I. Anyone in a public place can take pictures of anything they want. Public places include parks, sidewalks, malls, etc. Malls? Yeah. Even though it’s technically private property, being open to the public makes it public space.
II. If you are on public property, you can take pictures of private property. If a building, for example, is visible from the sidewalk, it’s fair game.
III. If you are on private property and are asked not to take pictures, you are obligated to honor that request. This includes posted signs.
IV. Sensitive government buildings (military bases, nuclear facilities) can prohibit photography if it is deemed a threat to national security.
Owning your beat and being patient--then getting it right when it all goes downThe potential upside of waiting 12 or 14 hours a day, six or seven days a week, is the chance that one day Britney will roll her car into a ditch, or be taken away again strapped to a gurney. "You're telling a little story in a 15- or 20-second clip," Dano explains, resting his right hand on his Panasonic DVX 100B three-chip broadcast-quality video camera. "You need an establishing shot. You need an action. And then you need it to resolve."
The money is in syndication, not exclusivesWhen the spending became impossible to sustain, the magazines slashed their photo budgets and stopped buying exclusives. The larger photo agencies like X17 and Bauer-Griffin then found that they could make even more money by selling a single set of pictures 15 or 20 times over, to eight or 10 magazines, five or six television programs, and Web sites. And so the industrial phase of paparazzi production was born.
New buzzwords: "participatory media experience"The result of this happy convergence, the 24/7 Britney-ParisNicoleLindsayLohan MaybeDidCokeBradand AngelinaSavetheWorld OneChildataTimeBradand JenBenandJenPoorKatie HolmesMarried Tom CruiseWhoIsanAlien Celebrity Reality Show, was a distinctive new kind of participatory media experience resulting from the cold fusion of the old-school paparazzi business with the new wave of celebrity magazines and Internet sites.
In your beginning is your endThe online communities that formed around news-driven celebrity dramas fed the buzz that drove the sales of the magazines and the ratings of the television programs that paid the paparazzi.
New words to be inscribed on a brass plaque at the J-SchoolWhere old media imposed a polite and deadening spectatorial distance between the reader and the medium to buttress the authority of the message handed down from on high, the online convergence of instant images and dramatic story lines encouraged the idea that the news was filter-free and that readers were part of the story. Online communities became gladiatorial forums where pseudonymous participants sallied forth to trade insults and shred the toilet-paper-thin reputations built by studio publicists and New York magazine editors with a vulgar and highly sexualized avidity that recalls the frenzied mob scene at the end of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust. [emphasis added]
Applies to blog commenters as well as the right wing cheerleaders of the Iraq warA good number of readers seem to write in the openly delusional (yet not entirely impossible) belief that if their post is sincere or hateful enough, the walls separating their own lives from the lives of celebrities will dissolve, transporting them from the backlit world of their LCD screens to the super- pollinated atmosphere of the media daisy chain.
Be preparedA great shot is almost never an accident. You need luck, skill, timing, good information, a sense of how to frame a shot, and the ability to make the right decisions under pressure. The margin for error is so small that the best paparazzi generally get the best shots.
