This Sunday is the biggest U.S. TV broadcasting event of the year.
It’s not the Grammys, the Emmys or the Oscars — it’s the Super Bowl.
This year, the event also looks to be a huge online ad-play as well, though many of the Web spots will posted for free, according to WSJ.com.
AOL plans to make the [...]
Categories: Making Money, One For Fun
Tagged: ads, fun, Super Bowl
Earlier this week I attended a workshop conducted by Edward Tufte, the Yale professor emeritus and information design lecturer.
During the day-long course, he emphasized the need for high-resolution, information-dense graphics and gave several examples of his concept.
Among them was a discussion about the iPhone interface.
He argued the iPhone hardware presented the perfect platform to deliver [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism
TED, the elite meeting of big thinkers in a wide variety of fields, including media and technology, has put one ticket up for auction on Ebay. As of this post, the bid is $33,535.00.
The normal cost of entry is an invitation and at least $6,000. Though the conference has a good reputation as a place [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: conferences, ideas, learning, TED
Will Sullivan of Journerdism pointed to an incredible film on the Toronto Star website.
Shot by staff photojournalist Lucas Oleniuk and composed entirely of still images, the film — that’s right, film — “Airsick” calls on Star readers to join with other cities worldwide in shutting off all lights for an hour March 29, an action [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Photojournalism
Tagged: film, Photojournalism, photos, video
According to Tony MacDowell at the recently launched site InsideRIA.com, they’re a platform-agnostic programs that “leverage the best of the Web, without sacrificing the power of the desktop.”
O’Reilly, the longtime publisher of geek manuals featuring public domain animal art, is building a community of developers interested in creating Web tools to engage and entertain the [...]
Categories: Tips & Tools
Twitter’s spreading … or should I say, its use among mainstream journos is spreading. In today’s NYTimes.com, Noam Cohen describes how political reporters from Slate, Time and AFP (among others) are using the site to send on-the-scene descriptions from the campaign trail.
The 140-character limit is giving rise to the return of telegraphese, Cohen notes. He [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media
Tagged: twitter
Larry Lessig’s latest book, “The Future of Ideas” is available as a free download.
Lessig, who founded Creative Commons and is no stranger to Internet-related controversy, argues that old-style institutions are killing the free flow of ideas by using legal and technological means to protect their online territory.
From the book’s website:
“The choice Lawrence Lessig presents is [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Journalism & the Law
’Taint the same as blogging. Nonagenarian NPR commentator Daniel Schorr tells the Sacramento Bee:
A person like me who believes in the tradition of a discipline in journalism can only rue the day we’ve arrived at where we don’t need discipline or anything. All you need is a keyboard.
(via jimray)
Categories: General Journalism
You read that right.
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino announced it this morning. It’s called “Trip Notes from the Middle East” and it started today.
It’s a one-way group blog about Bush’s eight-day trip to the Middle East, where he’s trying to revive stalled peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
White House Chief of Staff Josh [...]
Categories: General Journalism
So here we are, a few hours and counting down to what will be the first test of online national campaign coverage.
The Des Moines Register has a great homepage headline: “All Eyes on Iowa.” And it looks like the public has been busy commenting on articles and the blogs in the caucus section.
Iowa Public Radio [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Maps