Monday squibs

From the reader on a day which has featured rain, snow, sleet and now sunshine here on the West Coast.

• A “new” Martini: The Gin and the Journalist. I’m not a mixed-drinks kinda guy, but I can’t resist passing along a link to a recipe for The Journalist, a gin-and-vermouth based pre-dinner drink.
• When Journalists Aren’t Happy, the Industry Isn’t Happy. Steve Outing thinks Angry Journalist makes a pretty good learning resource for newspaper execs. In his latest Editor & Publisher column he explains why.
• A List of News Organizations using Twitter. I’ve gone from not getting Twitter to mild addiction, particularly as it starts to replace links in my RSS reader. This is a great list of news orgs who are pumping their stuff out.
• Photo industry braces for another revolution. A little more on what’s coming from cameras and computers, including depth of field that can be changes after the photo is taken, 3-D image making and more. As journalists, we’ve always defined photographic “reality” in terms of the possibilities and limitations of the camera and recording medium, so what will happen as the tools change?
• Google Reader is the best Newspaper Ever. This post has me thinking that newspapers have benefitted more from RSS than they have suffered because of it because of the relatively low adoption rate among most web users. But I don’t think they can count on that forever: there’s bound to be a killer app for RSS somewhere in the pipeline. Perhaps the kind of thing Howard Owens writes about in the first part of this post (Playing with free online tools to enhance newspaper sites) points to some of the possibilities.
• A day in the life of a Rangoon journalist. The sad, frustrating reality of trying to be a journalist in Burma. A must-read, particularly, perhaps, for some of those angry journalists. Via From the Frontline.
• What every journalism student needs to know (now). I agree with almost everything on Mindy McAdam’s list and, particularly, the conclusion that what j-students really, really, really need to learn is storytelling.