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“Local news is changing. Video, podcasts and blogging have been added to the scribbles of shorthand and the nib; searching YouTube and browsing the blogosphere have been added to photocalls and council meetings as part of the daily routine…”
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“Does the newsroom of the future really need to be a brick and mortar newsroom?”
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“The time for getting the Web was 10 years ago. Now you need to get the Web and the mobile Web. People want to consume content on the go.”
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“According to Hansell, Google began testing video ads in search results today.”
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“A copyright period that extends beyond the life of the author is clearly not an incentive to create. John Lennon is not going to write any more songs whatever incentives you give him.”
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“Are you a zombie without your morning cup of coffee? Instead of using caffeine to stay awake, you can tweak the food you eat to get more energy.”
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“Long ago, I disavowed my former praise of TimesCast. As I dove deeper into web casts, I found a number that were stunningly good, and realized the bar was much higher for episodic video than daily news video.”
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“Don’t just rely on your content management system to make decisions for you. Decide how and where you will reward readers who want more information.”
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“Not too shabby for a free CMS.”
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“A hip version of cablese jazzes up campaign coverage”
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Amy Gahran: “Requiring journalism students to use Dreamweaver is about as useful as requiring them to learn calligraphy. It makes your content looks really pretty — and it generally won’t be worth a damn on a real journo job or project.”
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“All we, as print journalists, need to know about the printing presses is that they exist and they work. It would be a waste of time to think otherwise. So why don’t we take the same approach to learning online journalism?”
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“It seemed to me at the time that journalists need either a lot more or a lot less knowledge of web design and development than a one-year (or even a three-year) Dreamweaver module on a journalism course can provide.”
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“What we all to often do is teach our students how to use a particular piece of software – which red button to press. They then go out into the real world to discover that the company they have come to has a blue button. Unhappy student.”
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I enjoyed Andy’s videos on the quality and point-and-shoot approaches to newspapers’ video strategy…
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“Given that cellphones were the focus, it proved a suitable event to try out using mobiles as newsgathering tools. The phone was a Nokia N95 which Reuters has also been testing.”
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“You may have noticed the video clips embedded in this blog over the past few days from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. They marked the beginning of an experiment which will see us try out various ways of video blogging from mobile phones.”
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“On Tuesday this week, Politiken.dk, the news site of one of Denmark’s leading newspapers, started using Twingly to show blog links to the sites’ articles”
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“online, journalism is not just writing a webpage or filming a video; it is commenting on a blog, or bookmarking a webpage. That there are no walls in cyberspace, only links; and that journalism lies in every act that you commit online…”
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“employ Twitter as a way of keeping journalists in touch with other members of their team, and their editors, via their mobile phones.”
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“Semantic Web will start the long, slow decline of relational database technology. Web 3.0 enables the transition from ‘structure upfront’ to ‘structure on the fly’.”
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