Category: New media
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This day in history: Aug. 13, 2004 Birth of the Podcast
Image via Wikipedia Actual credit for the invention of the podcasting model goes to Dave Winer. Software developer Winer helped create Really Simple Syndication (RSS) — a basic web feed simplifying the process of subscribing to websites and other online media. He used RSS to deliver his audio program, Morning Coffee Notes, just a day…
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Craig Kanalley, Editor, on BreakingTweets at Six Months
Originally, Breaking Tweets was to be nothing more than a personal blog, telling a few major stories around the world every day through the use of Twitter. It blossomed into something so much more. It’s been 750 posts, 6,000 featured tweets, and 150,000 unique visitors (320,000 pageviews) from 194 countries since then — and more…
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YouTube – News & Politics
YouTube – News & Politics. You can see the offerings for “News for You” which are video news stories posted within 100 miles of your IP address.
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Now on YouTube – Local News – NYTimes.com
YouTube’s push to organize local news video began in earnest in the spring when the News Near You module was introduced. The module uses the Internet address of a visitor’s computer to determine the user’s location and whether any partners are located within a 100-mile radius. If so, seven days of local videos are displayed.…
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Look ma, no player: video tag in Firefox 3.5
Video Support is Augmented Firefox 3.5 handles video much better than any previous release, particularly with support for Open Video. In addition to the HTML 5 video tag, Firefox 3.5 ships with the Ogg Theora codec. This means that without a plugin, you can watch any video that is encoded using Ogg Theora. Theora files…
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Open Video Conference Ends in NYC
Image by biverson via Flickr What a great meeting. I’ll be posting some audio and my reflections on the sessions. The big surprise, was a live Skype session with Peter Sunde, the spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, who was charming and lionized by the OVC crowd. via Open Video Conference Pushes for Free, Ubiquitous Video…
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South Korean Portals Looking at Model to Pay A-List Bloggers
Image via Wikipedia In S. Korea, Daum and Naver are the big corporate powers in blogs and providing online services. Daum’sDaum (www.daum.net) ? which operates blogging platforms at Daum Blog (blog.daum.net) and Tistory (www.tistory.com) ? has had a program like “Ad Clicks” and a way for bloggers to opt in and share ad revenue. Now…
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Mike Doyle notes report on local blogs and media and more.
from ChicagoNow by Mike Doyle Chicago Carless But wait, there’s more. This Saturday (June 13th) also brings the Chicago Media Future Conference to town. Organized by Mike Fourcher, founder of Purely Political Consulting, Barbara Iverson, Columbia College journalism professor and publisher of ChicagoTalks.org, and Scott Smith, Senior Editor at Playboy.com, as a follow-up to February’s…
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Computational information design – New Roles for Journalists
Image via Wikipedia The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in…
Barbara K Iverson 