I’ve got two more Joost invites to give away. Joost is the new internet television platform by the makers of Skype and Kazaa. While there’s still not a ton of content available for Joost, the company has been signing up major partners like Viacom in recent months. Currently you can catch some B-list Comedy Central […]
How the Roanoke Times covered the VA Tech shooting online
Web servers go down all the time when you get too much traffic in too short a time. If this happens because your latest story wound up on the front page of digg, it’s probably not the end of the world. But if readers are flocking to your site for the latest information on a […]
Samson launches the Zoom H2
As I’ve said before, the Zoom H4 Handy Recorder is a great tool for radio producers or podcasters on a budget. For under $300, it has a high quality internal microphone, XLR inputs with phantom power, and sounds better than flash-based recorders that cost twice as much. One while one of the main draws for […]
Why you need RSS
Right, so I was planning on writing up a detailed post about why journalists need to learn to use RSS readers and then give detailed instructions on how to set up a reader. But I don’t think I can top this video. In a nutshell, subscribing to RSS feeds will do two things. Save you […]
Calacanis v. Wired: Kerfuffle over email interviews
So a journalist for WIRED sends an interview request to Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis and asks for an interview. Calacanis responds that he’ll do the interview via email, but not by phone. He’s a busy guy, and he doesn’t want to be misquoted. The reporter turns him down. Scripting.com’s Dave Winer had a similar […]
The BBC is posting it’s entire media catalog online
The BBC is embarking on a pilot project to post every radio and television program the corporation has ever broadcast online. The searchable database will include millions of hours worth of broadcast material. This would probably be one of the largest, if not the largest library of broadcast news available on the internet. Odds are […]
Why I’m not using Ubuntu full time
As I mentioned a last week, I’m running Windows Vista and Ubuntu on my new laptop. One of the first things I did when I brought my Toshiba A135-4527 home was partition the hard drive and add Kubuntu. I was even surprised to discover that GRUB automatically recognized Vista. This changed the first time I […]
Building your resume online
A friend of mine is a getting her doctorate a journalism school I won’t name right now. While everyone acknowledges that new media technologies are changing the nature of journalism, the school is primarily teaching the same subjects it always has. On the one hand, that’s important. Because kids will figure out how to use […]
What local news is missing
PodTech’s Rio Pesino did a set of interviews with people in San Francisco asking the question, “what’s missing from local news?” The resulting video has a few people on the street interviews and a few snippets from movers and shakers behind Gizmodo, Craigslist, KQED, and other news sources. The results are a bit skewed, as […]
Who wants to be Ira Glass?
The Public Radio Talent Quest could have been the public radio gong show. In round one, users upload an audio clip of up to two minutes to show their “hostiness.” The goal is to give the audience and judges a sense of their personality and style. Visitors to the website have the opportunity to leave […]
Media execs see user generated content as threat
A study released this week by Accenture indicates that media entertainment executives see user generated material as one of the biggest threats to traditional media. 57% of those who responded to the poll said user generated material as one of the top three challenges facing their industry. That content includes videos, podcasts, blogs, and photography. […]
Virginia Tech shootings in newspaper front pages
Newsdesigner has a roundup of front pages featuring news of the Virginia Tech shootings. There are imags from the top 50 U.S. newspapers, some international newspapers, and Virginia Tech’s student paper, the Collegiate Times. As several visitors point out in Newsdesigner’s comments, these front pages tend to highlight news a day late. Of course, this […]
Corzine was going 91mph with no seatbelt
I spent a bit of time following Governor John Corzine’s condition this weekend. He broke his leg and a dozen ribs in a car accident Thursday night and has been in the hospital ever since. As details of the accident have emerged, we’ve found out that the drivers of the two pickup trucks involved will […]
Citizen Media helps tell the Virginia Tech story
While the national media has scrambled to cover the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, some of the most compelling stories have been produced by non-journalists on the scene. I say produced, and not just told, because that’s what new media technologies have made possible. Graduate student Jamal Albarghouti captured video of the police response on […]