Jul
5
Poking around the ‘net, I found these. (And to my American readers, sorry. I really meant to get you a card, but I got busy and then all the stores were closed. So belated happy birthday wishes.)
- RIP Backfence. One of the most ambitious and hyped citizen journalism sites is apparently, officially near its end. Somewhat sad news, but as I tell my students, there’s no success without failure. Via Susan Mernit.
- Microsoft to open doors in Vancouver. It’s because of tightening immigration laws in the States, according to the Globe and Mail.
- Web 2.0 Reality Check. A democratized web doesn’t mean everyone taking part is an artist, but that doesn’t make it a failure. Via Ed Cone.
- Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources. Another exhaustive resource list from Mashables, which earlier did online photo and video compendiums.
- Four Steps to Finding and Buying Your Dream Digital-Video Camera. Nice, practical advice at the wonderfully named blog, Will Video for Food.
- Paid content – the British newspaper experience. Adrian Monck delves into a study of British newspapers and the issue of paid content. The trend appears to be toward free.
- Amazon S3, YouTube, BlipTV, and the end of walled gardens. Jon Udell attempts to tie together bits and pieces of Web 2.0 goodness to make online citizen video work for breaking news.
- Wiki brainstorming. Paul Bradshaw passes along an impressive list of potential wiki news sites that his students put together. Lots of ideas for publishers in there.
- TV revenues top $6-billion as viewers tune in. Canadian TV operating sales were up more than eight per cent last year, but the increase isn’t coming fromprivate conventional broadcasters.
- Release Bilal Hussein. A cause that appears to be worth backing: a campaign to win freedom for the Iraqi AP photographer who has been held for over a year without charge.
- Real Journalism: Exposing a Photo Op. NPR outs the American embassy in Mali for partially upgrading a school for a visit from Laura Bush…and then tearing out the improvements after the photo op. Personally, I think the media has to stop playing along with this type of wasteful, insulting image-polishing. Just say no.
- StoryBridge. I’ve blogged about the video storytelling from Katy and crew before and I likely will again, because I’m hooked.
