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From the BBC Internet blog, which offers insights into how the corporation is changing for a digital world:
2008 will become the breakthrough year for the BBC’s interactive audience facing services. The biggest ticket item we are working on is a complete refresh of our backend infrastructure. While this is fairly boring stuff for the average [...]
This video, played by Jane Stevens, multimedia instructor at UC Berkeleyâs Graduate School of Journalism, at the Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Workshop at UC Berkeley, sums up the need for change.
In the context of journalism education, it highlights how we need to prepare students for jobs that may not yet exist. The time [...]
Just about anyone working in the digital industries, or covering it for the media, will be in Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show.
CES is a monster of an event, showcasing all that is new in the world of technology, held in Las Vegas from 7 to 10 January.
Over the past few [...]
The new year has inspired a couple of postings of how the news industry needs to change. Steve Outing, writing in Editor and Publisher, argues that the culture of newsrooms need to radically change:
As you enter 2008, I urge you to focus on cultural change within your newsroom. Get everyone involved in the task of [...]
Former MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte on his One Laptop Per Child concept:
from www.clipsyndicate.co posted with vodpod
Are cellphones the platform of the future? They are, according to Eric Schwartz of Foneshow.
Talking at an ONA panel on the future of publishing, Schwartz went al evangelical about mobiles. He argues cellphones are the future because there are more cellphones than toasters on the planet - 2.7bn mobiles worldwide.
Cellphones outsold [...]
Off topic: I have just received the download link for Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows. The 48.8MB zip file downloaded in just over a minute.
Radiohead primed fans for the release in an e-mail on Tuesday, saying the codes would be sent out Wednesday morning UK time. My e-mail arrived at 6.39 am UK [...]
One of the pressing issues for the news industry is training. Many journalists simply do not have the skills needed in an Internet age, so the Knight Foundation is investing more than US$6 million in preparing reporters and editors for a digital world.
The money is going to the Knight Digital Media Center, [...]
Google has taken a major step into becoming a publisher of news. It is now hosting news stories on its Google News site, rather than just linking to the websites with the material.
The deal covers five major news services: AP, Agence France-Presse, the UK Press Association and the Canadian Press. Here’s an example of [...]
If you want to get an idea of skills journalists should be learning, check out Mindy McAdams’ new course at Florida, Journalists’ Toolkit.
Over two terms, the course will look at how to use audio, audio slideshows and blogs in journalism, and later focus on video and other motion visuals.
This is the sort of [...]
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- Cyberjournalist.net
- Hackademic
- Innovation in College Media
- Inside the CBC
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- Kirk LaPointe’s TheMediaManager.com
- Multimedia Shooter
- Newslab.ca
- Online Journalism Review
- Pressthink
- RConversation
- Ricochet: Chrys Wu
- Sacred Facts
- Sue Robinson’s Mediatrope
- Teaching Online Journalism
- TheThunderbird.ca
- UBC School of Journalism
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