Have a Look at These New Sites Around the Web
Just wanted to bring your attention to some news-related projects that launched this week:
Reporters looking for advice from other reporters should take a look at ReportingOn.
Ryan Sholin’s revamped site is like a help forum for news developers and journalists, particularly beat and local journalists. Follow ReportingOn on Twitter. You’ll find me on ReportingOn too.
The hyperlocal news and data site Everyblock released its source code, much to the delight of Django developers everywhere.
Everyblock is the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, one of the co-developers of the Django framework. Read more about the project, poke around and see what you find.
Personally, I’d also like to see the source code for the Everyblock iPhone app, but one thing at a time.
If you want to learn more about mobile site design, consider signing up for W3C’s first-ever live training session in Cambridge, UK.
The event takes place Oct. 13. Registration — at a hefty €399.00 (about US$558 at today’s exchange rate) — includes lectures and hands-on workshops, as well as access to the nine-part course. Read the full description, register online or read more about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
And finally, if you’re here because of the list of “100 Best Blogs for Journalism Students,” welcome!
Feel free to browse around. A few of the most popular posts on Ricochet include:
- Have Reporting Work You’re Proud Of? Enter the Online Journalism Awards (Hurry! Deadline is July 8.)
- 10 Golden Rules for Video Journalists
- How to Tell a Multimedia Story: The Pitch
What ideas and tools would you like to know more about? Drop a comment, or ping me on Twitter @MacDivaONA.
Computation + Journalism Videos Posted
Didn’t make it to the Journalism 3G symposium in Atlanta? Catch up on what you missed.
Georgia Tech has posted videos of the talks and panels, and links posted by conference attendees.
Watch Journalists and Other Web Geeks in Action
As mentioned earlier this week, the live webcast from “Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field” (a symposium on computation + journalism) begins at 1 p.m. ET.
Speakers and panelists include:
- Krishna Bharat – Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News
- Ian Bogost – videogame designer, critic, and researcher, Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games
- David Cohn – Beatblogging.org and NewAssignment.net
Ezra Cooperstein – Director of Development and Production for the Viewer-Created Content group at Current TV - Leah Culver – Founder of Pownce, a San Francisco-based micro-blogging service
- John Geraci – Co-Creator of outside.in
- Mark Hansen – Co-PI of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, creator of sensorbase.org (and one of the guys who created the cool art installation in the NYTimes Tower)
- Alexander Hauptman – Senior Systems Scientist working on the Informedia: News-on-Demand project at Carnegie Mellon University
- Elizabeth Spiers – media columnist for Fast Company magazine, founding editor of Gawker.com
Check out the full list of speakers, then be sure to watch the webcast. QuickTime 7 or later required.
Journalists Get Geeky in Georgia
Starting Friday, journalists and researchers from all over will gather at Georgia Tech for Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field.
Though there hasn’t yet been a lot of discussion on the group’s CrowdVine site, a look at the member list shows a wide swath of interesting minds and movers who are pushing online journalism to be more than just text + photo + video + comments.
According to the conference website, there almost 220 people have registered. If you can’t make down to Georgia, you can watch the live webcast starting Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. ET
