Google ads RSS
July 31, 2005
You can now add RSS to your personalized Google home page.
And while we’re on the topic of personalization, for fun, here’s a site that lets you create your own personalized Google logo.
Newsweek Blog Talk
July 31, 2005
Newsweek has now partnered with Technorati to includes direct links to what bloggers are saying about individual stories on the stories. Here’s an example.
The site is also running a Blog Roundup page showing the Newsweek stories generating the most discussion on Weblogs.
Great ideas. Look for other news sites to offer similar features.
The Roanoke Times : Podcasting helps Times ‘tell stories in new ways’
July 31, 2005
“When Seth Gitner and Tad Dickens of The Roanoke Times sat down in March to talk with a local musician for their first podcast on Roanoke.com, fewer than 10 newspapers around the country had ventured into the emerging venue.
Now, there are about 15, according to lists on cyberjournalist.net, a site that focuses on ways the Internet and converging technologies are changing the media. Podcasts don’t generate profits - yet - but those newspapers intend to be poised when they do.”
Deadline Club award winners
July 29, 2005
Here are this year’s SPJ Deadline Club award winners in the online categories.
Most popular baby names
July 29, 2005
The U.S. government recently released its annual list of most popular baby names. You can search the historical federal data by state, year, name and a few other ways on this site.
Here is a great example of what news sites can do with this type of work from projo.com.
Online databases can be great supplements to what runs in the newspaper or is broadcast on air, and for a popular subject like this, can serve as a great, evergreen feature as well.
Sites honored for interactive storytelling, rethinking journalism
July 28, 2005
Five finalists have been named for the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, which gives cash prizes up to $10,000 for “setting new standards for interactive journalism, advancing creativity in digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play in their communities.”
Here’s a look at what the judges said about the five finalists, plus links to other notable entries as well. Lots of excellent ideas here worth checking out.
A practical guide to audio tools & techniques
July 28, 2005
A fantastic guide that explores everything from how captions and audio work together, to how to record audio, to what technology and tools you should use.
Blog Your Business Coverage
July 28, 2005
BusinessJournalism.org looks at how business reporters can better use blogs to enhance coverage.
BBC News behind the scenes
July 27, 2005
Here’s a look at the technology behind the BBC News Web site.
The saga of Dog Poop Girl
July 26, 2005
“Increasingly,” The Washington Post’s Jonathan Krim writes, “the Internet also is a venue of so-called citizen journalism, in which swarms of surfers mobilize to gather information on what the traditional media isn’t covering, or is covering in a way that dissatisfies some people. But what happens when the two converge, and the Internet populace is stirred to action against individuals?”
Witness the saga of Dog Poop Girl.
“What happened next was a remarkable show of Internet force, and a peek into an unsettling corner of the future.”