May
3
Not all of today’s highlighted headlines deal with media. Some days are like that:
- Fun with YouTube: The Best Science-Themed Music Videos. Oh, those wacky scientists with too much time on their hands.
- U.S. activist takes on Syncrude. It’s not captured in the headline, but the interesting part of the story is that the Canadian oil-sands giant made the 85-year-old take pictures she had shot during a company-led tour of their site off her web site, claiming copyright. Via Michael Geist.
- Ont. government works told to log off Facebook. It apparently adds no value to the workplace.
- Learn media consumption from iTunes. There are some surprises in the list of top sellers at iTunes, including people buying ads and downloading serious books. Which leads me to wonder how much other market research is sitting out there on the web that companies could easily acccess.
- The Maze Meltdown. Great use of a newspaper website at SFGate.com: all the coverage of the destroyed freeway on-ramp aggregated in one place and sweetened with graphics, video, photos, regular updates, maps and more. Study and learn.
- What is technology doing to the public’s trust in journalism? Provoking a little thought at The End of Journalism.
- Evil passive voice. At the Language Log, a persuasive argument against the knee-jerk ban on the passive in journalism, pointing out that, in one of the latest screeds against the passive, the structure was used to good effect in at least three places.
- Jeff Jarvis and the undermining of journalism. The headline may be a little over the top, but I found Andrew’s article at Wordblog a worthy addition to the continuing debate over what journalism “should be.”
