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• China's Earthquake: The Twitter Story
12 May 2008 at 11:20am
by Fons Tuinstra
twitter.com/casperodj
After today's major quake in southern China, many China-based Twitter users became an important primary news source.
Earlier today I got a worried message from a friend in Shanghai (where I am based). He said that that over at Nanjing street an office building had been evacuated because of a tremor. He had not yet heard about the earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale that happened 60 miles north of Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital. This quake was felt all over the country. Shanghai was relatively unscathed, compared to cities like Chengdu and Chongqing.My friend updated me fast on the social networks he uses: apparently he... ( cont'd )
• Seesmic: Is Video Conversation Useful for Journalists?
11 May 2008 at 10:30pm
by Paul Bradshaw
Paul Bradshaw, via seesmic.com
Paul Bradshaw posted a video asking how journos could use Seesmic. (Click to watch the video and view responses.)
I've been playing with Seesmic once again. (It's a conversational video-sharing service, somewhat like Twitter meets YouTube.) I briefly dabbled with an alpha invitation to Seesmic a few months ago and stupidly wrote it off as a vague video blogging platform. It isn't. Seesmic is social. And I think that's very important. Seesmic is, for me, a symptom of how media is changing. It is a symptom of how video has become as inexpensive and disposable as e-mail. It is a symptom of a generation of people who are completely... ( cont'd )
• Gag Orders, Global Media and the Internet
11 May 2008 at 3:43pm
by Alan Abbey
nypost.com
When an Israeli court said Israeli media couldn't cover an investigation of Ehud Olmert, the NY Post broke the ice.
In Israel, police are investigating Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for allegedly accepting bribes or illegal campaign contributions in the late 1990s from an American businessman. The police requested -- and an Israeli court granted -- a gag order on media coverage of this investigation. But that gag order is the latest victim of the Internet and global media.Ostensibly, this gag order was intended to enable Israeli police to continue their investigation unimpeded. The Israeli media are notorious for reporting every scrap of information... ( cont'd )
• Building the Future of News? Get the Right Tools
9 May 2008 at 10:50am
by Maurreen Skowran
I saw the future last week.
The NewsTools 2008 unconference drew about 150 people who are thinking about, working on, or living the future of news and journalism.
Much of NewsTools, the latest event sponsored by Journalism That Matters (JTM), was held mostly at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.
While technology was the main focus, I was more interested in learning about behind-the-scenes tools that could provide a new foundation for news organizations. The most exciting of these combine alternative revenue options with new structures -- new connections among journalists, and between journalists and communities.
On May 2, while NewsTools was happening, ... ( cont'd )
• Are Government Officials' E-Mails Public Records?
8 May 2008 at 12:04pm
by Amy Gahran
Dieselboii, via Flickr (CC license)
Public records aren't what they used to be...
In today's Watchdog Tipsheet from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Joseph A. Davis reports on a lawsuit that aims to clarify whether Washington State government officials' e-mails are considered public records that could be covered by that state's public records act. If so, this could aid journalists, activists, and others who seek insight into that state's government decision-making. The case (Building Industry Association of Washington, vs. Pat McCarthy, Pierce County Auditor, and Pierce County, Washington) is currently before the Washington State Supreme Court.... ( cont'd )
• Aggregating News: Still a Business Model?
7 May 2008 at 11:53am
by Amy Gahran
nytimes.com
The New York Times offers a series of country-specific news aggregators. What's the point?
Recently Chinadev asked me if I would allow them to post content from the RSS feed of my weblog China Herald in their news aggregator. Similarly, a few weeks ago, another new aggregator, China.alltop.com, also asked to post my content. And I discovered, by accident, that the New York Times new China aggregator posted my content without asking. And there are whole row of other China news aggregators I might have forgotten by now.Of course, I would not refuse to participate in any service that would bring traffic to my site. Also, they would actually not hav... ( cont'd )
• Getting Commenters to Play Nice
6 May 2008 at 9:03am
by Amy Gahran
Cursed Thing, via Flickr (CC license)
What do you do when online comments get nasty?
Today, Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project is on a panel called "What to do when blog comments go awry?" held at The Day, a daily paper in New London, Conn.He sent out a query to me and some other media colleagues asking for perspectives this topic, including: "If you were to advise The Day's editors about how to handle blog comments, what would you say?" Here's my recommended strategy: Configure moderation. Set your comments to place the first 1-3 comments from any new user under moderation. People who have demonstrated that they can behave well (by getting prior com... ( cont'd )
• Bracketing the News with Games
5 May 2008 at 2:13pm
by Ken Sands
washingtonpost.com
WashingtonPost.com recently applied sports-style "bracketology" to the popular TV show Lost via an online game. (Character Desmond Hume won.)
Many media organizations are developing strategies for "serious games". For example, bracketology (the process of predicting the field of the NCAA Basketball Tournament) is spreading into social networking sites and beyond March Madness. For instance, CBS Sports did a great Facebook application for its NCAA bracket. Also, Washingtonpost.com recently did a bracket game about "Lost" TV series characters. And last week the politics staff at Congressional Quarterly published a bracket game to help John ... ( cont'd )
• Follow NewsTools 2008 Live on Twitter
2 May 2008 at 2:34pm
by Amy Gahran
Today I'm at the Newstrust 2008 conference at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. -- along with fellow Tidbits contributors Michelle Ferrier and Maurreen Skowran. Several people here, including me, are covering this event live via Twitter. Our posts are being aggregated into this Twitter account: NewsTools2008. Follow us there today and tomorrow to follow the action!
You can contribute to this feed by frist following NewsTools2008 and then sending a direct message on Twitter to NewsTools2008. (That's a good way to inject a comment or question into the stream of conversation.)
Here's the live video: 
• Citizen Journalism and the Quest for Good PR
1 May 2008 at 6:52am
by Tish Grier
iReport.com
Could sites that accept contributed "citizen journalism" content become a vehicle for advocacy?
In the many academic discussions about "citizen journalism," few consider how it relates to public relations for nonprofits. On Apr. 28, Elizabeth Toledo wrote in PR Week about how citizen journalism affects non-profits. She raised some ethical concerns. First, Toledo states that the old model was for "advocacy organizations" to influence media by "sending press releases, holding press events, submitting letters to the editor, and publishing newsworthy information." The editor or columnist then acted as a filter, and organizations with good reputation... ( cont'd )
• European News Interactivity Index
30 Apr 2008 at 5:45am
by Paul Bradshaw
journalismenterprise.com
Here's how two European newspaper sites stack up in this interactivity index.
Over the past couple of weeks I've been turning the Online Journalism Blog into a group blog. For our first project we have taken Jo Geary's news interactivity index, and applied it Europe-wide, creating an interactive tool allowing you to compare the level of interactivity of European newspapers. So far, this includes papers from the UK, Spain, Portugal, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland. You can publish it to any site as a widget using this code snippet: <iframe src="http://tinyurl.com/5c9vmy" frameborder="0" height="605" scrolling="no" width="41... ( cont'd )
• Israeli Critique of US News: Pot, Meet Kettle
29 Apr 2008 at 1:21pm
by Alan Abbey
Ynetnews.com
Israeli columnist Sever Plocker's recent analysis of the flaws of U.S. media could cut both ways.
As if the U.S. news business needed any more beating about the head and the shoulders, a leading Israeli economics columnist has now taken his turn. On Apr. 28, Sever Plocker (pronounced Plotzker), economics columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel's largest daily) devoted an entire column to explaining the reasons for the decline of the U.S. newspaper industry.
"America's print journalism is losing readers and advertising, because business-wise, politically, and culturally it is stuck in the 1960s," Plocker wrote. "It is overly serious, its stories... ( cont'd )
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