Oct
23
So much to post, so little time.
- Reuters’ “mojo” experiments with Nokia. A test project, already under way, aimed at delivering journalists handheld tools for capturing, creating and sending information. Jemima Kiss has a detailed look at the project (built around the Nokia N95 smartphone). It seems we’re not quite at the point where the smartphones can frequently replace laptops and bags of gear, but it’s getting close. Bonus: Mark Potts on Goin’ Mobile, which is about the end delivery, not the capture and filing.
- News is a process, not a product. At least when it’s live. Doc Searls counts the ways in which new technology (such as Twitter) comes into play when big news, like the SoCal fires, is at play.
- A Tale of Two Mediums. Sheer entertainment as Stewart Pittman compares and contrasts newspaper and TV folk.
- Is teaching photography obsolete? On the technical side, perhaps, writes Dennis Dunleavy, but the need to teach photography as the art of connection and context is stronger than ever in a world awash in happy snaps and automatic-everything cameras. Bonus: Online MA/Postgraduate Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course launching.
- NYTCO Q3 Profits Surge 57.1 Percent; Revs Up 2 Percent; Ad Revs Fall Slightly. The devils, or at least the trend pointers, are in the details. Someone smarter than I will surely pull out something more than the continuing downward drift in ad revenue.
- Cops pull plugs on TV-links, claim ‘facilitation of infringement’. No, I do not like those who attempt to profit from dubious online activity, but there is something disturbing in the arrest of a British man for running a web site of links.
- Somali media chief killed in Mogadishu. Layoffs, tightening newsholes, the future of the newspaper and all the rest somehow don’t seem quite so vital issues when you read items like this, about a country that has seen too many journalists murdered because they are journalists. More, this time from Burma: News photographer missing, eight other journalists still detained.
