Jun
25
Collected from the web over the past couple of days”
- Lunatic 1. The first issue of an online magazine of photojournalism, with some nice work and a creative interface (the metaphor is real-life magazines). Warning: the site opens with the soundtrack playing and the link for turning it off, as well as the link to the index, may be just off the bottom of your browser screen, as it was on mine. The page doesn’t scroll, so getting to it is a bit of a challenge.
- Journalists need/don’t need to learn programming. Matthew Wait ruminates on the idea that all journalists need to learn new skills, including the ability to write code.
- The right tool for every job but money-making? The biggest need for community media, Tom Abate writes, is to find the business model that will support it.
- Should a news site link to its rival? Julien at Trinetizen provides some interesting excerpts from a conversation between David Weinberg and Richard Sambrook of the BBC on the value of linking out.
- Web video excludes the deaf. Angela Grant is wondering if journalists have the responsibility of making all this new media goodness accessible to all. I think so, which means we need better tools for such things as closed captioning, which in turn could also be used for other langiage subtitling.
- Slate V. Slate does video.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers: US Newspapers to Grow at 0.7% between 2007-2011. That’s a compound annual rate, but any news is good news at this point. Note that the report also says advertising will grow at annual rate of 1.1 per cent.
