Jan
17
I’ve had a little time for surfing between classes, grading and all that fine stuff, and have found these (updates have been added:
- Lessons from the launch. Mike Orren reports on some of what he has learned through the birth and coming-out of the admirable Pegasus News. There are many good lessons here for both online and print.
- Canadian TV Network Pulls Shows from YouTube. This is part of the backlash: short clips are fine but full shows are non-nos, particularly when ads are being sold around the “user-stolen” content. Via I Want Media.
- Video encoding: Hey!Watch. I’ve been trying to find the time to test out the new online video encoding service. Now I don’t have to, because Andy Dickinson has been there and he likes it. That’s a good enough recommendation for me.
- Multimedia reporting 102. I pointed to (and learned from) Bobbie Johnson’s post Multimedia reporting 101. The follow-up is just as valuable.
- Update 1: Blogs Bloom. CBC is reporting that while visits to the top ten newspaper websites went up nine per cent in December (from December 2005), visits to newspaper site blogs jumped 210 per cent. Blog traffic is still a small portion of newspaper site visits, but that increase surely says something. Via Canadian Journalist.
- Update 2: If the problem is “more technology, less journalism”, the solution must be “more technology and better journalism”. Juan Antonio Giner takes down some high-sounding words about “what’s wrong with journalism.”
