YouTube launches Reporters’ Center
June 29, 2009
YouTube today launched a new resource to help people learn more about how to report the news today, called The YouTube Reporters’ Center.
Social media’s role in Iran’s election
June 24, 2009
Mashable has written an excellent timeline of events surrounding the Iranian election showing social media’s role using posts from Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia.
10 Incredible Iran Election Crisis YouTube Videos
June 23, 2009
Mashable reports: “Thousands of Iran-related videos are being uploaded to YouTube every day, revealing first-hand accounts of the crisis to the world. “Some are incredible, some are eye-opening, and other shock you to your very core. We’ve included ten of these incredible videos, in a chronological order that helps provide context to the crisis in Iran.” Click here to watch the videos.
Harvard Twitter study: Men Follow Men, unlike other social networks
June 9, 2009
A recent Twitter study from Harvard finds that men are more likely to follow men on Twitter, which is the opposite of the usual behavoir on social networks, where most of the activity is centered around women.
If a blog posts in cyberspace and nobody reads it…
June 7, 2009
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days, The New York Times reports. “That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.”
New Media Makers Get Grants for News
June 3, 2009
At least 180 community, family and other foundations have contributed nearly $128 million in grants to news and information initiatives in the United States since 2005, according to a new J-Lab report: “New Media Makers: A Toolkit for Innovators in Community Media and Grant Making.” Read more »
10 Golden Rules of Social Media
May 26, 2009
10 good tips from Web Worker Daily, via @aadamglenn
New York Times names Social Media Editor
May 26, 2009
The New York Times has named Jennifer Preston as the paper’s first social media editor. In a memo to staff, John Landman says, “What’s that? It’s someone who concentrates full-time on expanding the use of social media networks and publishing platforms to improve New York Times journalism and deliver it to readers.” Read more »
Crowdfunded journalism - what will readers fund?
May 18, 2009
David Cohn of Spot.Us says: “We have begun to see a pattern among the pitches that do and do not get funded… The best way I can articulate it is that stories which have a concrete anchor to a geographic or ethnic community do better. Stories that are lofty, more analysis-based or consumerist tend to flounder. In short it comes down to relevance and original reporting.”
1,500 donate $90,000 to support investigative blogger
May 15, 2009
Firedoglake has been raising money to pay for investigative blogging by Marcy Wheeler since April. Since then, nearly $90,000 has been raised by nearly 1,500 people, an amazing show of support. Read more »