Tag: Technology
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Teaching Reporters: Replacing the backpack with the Smartphone
Teaching Reporters: Replacing the backpack with the Smartphone It’s been more than a year since I packed away my laptop computer, digital recorders, microphones, cables and cameras, and began covering Washington, D.C. with only my iPhone. When I first came to the top-rated all-news WTOP in 1997, the bag phone I carried weighed as much…
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It’s been more than a year since I packed away my laptop computer, digital recorders, microphones, cables and cameras, and began covering Washington, D.C. with only my iPhone. When I first came to the top-rated all-news WTOP in 1997, the bag phone I carried weighed as much as a bowling ball. Reel-to-reel tape recorders (ask your parents) were the newsroom staple, but early versions of Cool Edit audio editing software signaled that the times, they were a-changin’.
Teaching Reporters: Replacing the backpack with the Smartphone
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Tech5 Ideas and Links
All about the Fifth Cycle of Technology – in a short lecture. Related articles by Zemanta What futurists are saying about, well … the future (nationalpost.com) http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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Today in History: Clackers the precursor of Hackers
Image via Wikipedia 1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data computation. via July 7, 1752: Jacquard’s Loom Will Weave a Durable Web | This Day In Tech | Wired.com. Related articles…
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Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation | Techdirt
Image via Wikipedia Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation | Techdirt. “Lessig has announced that Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown on one of Lessig’s own presentations, in which his use is almost certainly fair use. Lessig, of course, is a lawyer, and a big supporter of fair use, so…
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NYT’s David Pogue figures out the 411 on Twittering
In the end, my impression of Twitter was right and wrong. Twitter IS a massive time drain. It IS yet another way to procrastinate, to make the hours fly by without getting work done, to battle for online status and massage your own ego. But it’s also a brilliant channel for breaking news, asking questions,…
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Journalists Take Note: A Legal First
Television uses “expert in a box” video links pretty routinely, but they use high-tech connections set-up and run by technicians. Some technology news websites like c/net.com feature video interviews. Podcasters or vodcasters as they might be called, routinely use Internet video. Are most reporters thinking of Internet video when they set up interviews? In J…
Barbara K Iverson 