GeoGraffiti
Verbal bulletin board for mobile phone users to exchange location-specific info.
Social Tagging for Science | Nascent
“We are building tools to explore how the millions of terms already represented in Web-accessible controlled vocabularies can be used to enhance the process and resultant products of social tagging.”
Create Digital Motion
Knight Digital Training: Post-Mortem on the Multimedia Boot Camp [...]
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McClatchy Interactive Adopts Caspio Bridge | Editor & Publisher
“The nation’s third-largest newspaper group is adopting Caspio Bridge as a rapid database- and application-building platform for its Web sites after deployment at five of its large dailies — The Sacramento Bee, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The
On the Digification of ‘The New York Times’ [...]
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I wonder what kind of traffic Linton Weeks’ story has been getting since it went up?
As mentioned in Romenesko on Tuesday, the former features editor hid a message in his review of a speech by John Updike.
Weeks was among more than 100 WaPo reporters who took a buyout.
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: buyout, humor, newspapers, Washington Post
Yesterday, a massive earthquake did untold amounts of damage in Chengdu, the largest city in China.
While people were trying to get details of magnitude, damage and the status of loved ones, the Web was simultaneously aflame with self-congratulatory news that the first reports of the quake came out on Twitter, thanks to Robert Scoble bringing [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: echo chamber, foreign news, tunnel vision, twitter
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists hosted a multimedia workshop at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism earlier today.
It’s one of the newest schools in the country, built within the walls of the former New York Herald Tribune, and running since fall 2006.
Not many people have been there yet, so here’s a look around the [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Is This What Cable News Has Been Reduced To? 0
A friend who loves news but isn’t in the news business forwarded this to me. It’s a pretty dead-on, yet sad commentary on the state of cable news.
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: broadcast, cable, commentary, fun, humor