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Shorty Awards given for best Twitterers
March 4, 2010
The second annual “Shorty Awards” were announced Wednesday night honoring the best producers of “short real-time content” on Twitter. Read more »
Slate launches reader collaboration project
February 17, 2010
Slate has launched the first in a series of projects aimed at harnessing “the collective intelligence of our readers for the good of Slate and society,” called “The Hive.” The first such project asks readers to “come up with compelling and useful ways for Americans to use less energy in their homes and save money.”
Mysterious Iran Protest Death Filmers Win Polk Award
February 16, 2010
The anonymous individuals responsible for recording the shooting death of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan at a June protest in Tehran, Iran, and uploading the video to the Internet, won the George Polk Award for Videography. The video became a rallying point for the reformist opposition in Iran. You can watch the video below (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT).
Olympic Torch Relay Interactive Map
February 13, 2010
Nicely done map for the Vancouver Olympics site.
Viral video: How to report TV news
January 30, 2010
Comdedian Charlie Brooker has produced this hysterical and accurate video on how to produce the news, which is quickly becoming a viral hit.
Cool video: pop-up edition of Nixon’s speech
January 21, 2010
Check out the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s State of the State: Pop-Up Edition, a pop-up video of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s speech, with fact-checking, interesting trivia, the full text of the speech in searchable format, and more.
Interactive maps of Haiti quake damage
January 14, 2010
Here are some of the more interesting interactive maps created in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti by news sites.
How the web covered the Haitian earthquake
January 14, 2010
Here is a great roundup of the online coverage of the earthquake in Haiti from Robert Hernandez and Mark Luckie.
Haiti: A case study in real time news
January 14, 2010
Sky News journalist Emily Purser describes how the early coverage of Haiti unfolded using Twitter, Facebook and Skype..
Destruction in Haiti interactive
January 14, 2010
This feature from nytimes.com lets users zoom in on the images and examine up close some of the damage caused by the earthquake in Haiti. Simple but smart idea.
