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links for 2008-07-03
http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/07/03/links-for-2008-07-03/Sony Handycam HDR-TG1 VS Sanyo Xacti HD1000 : Akihabara News .com A nice head to head of sony and sanyos handheld ‘pistol’ style of camcorder. Sanyo wins - just (tags: sanyo sony) …
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links for 2008-06-30
http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/06/30/links-for-2008-06-30/Beat Blogging - Using a blog as a conversation starter to engage users “Some posts simply serve to be conversation starters”. I agree but would say that all posts should be conversation otherwise its just shovelware. …
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Local & Green 1: flicking the switch
http://www.alexlockwood.net/2008/07/07/local-green-1-flickin...journalism is best at the local level, and can help grow a renewed local media industry. Today I’m looking at… Flicking the Switch: which newspapers are making the leap to communal green media? Inspired by last month’s Carnival of Journalism, I
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Fallen behind? Nuke the RSS backlog
http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/07/06/fallen...tonight and stared at hundreds of unread journalism-related posts that have collected over the past month as I’ve been mostly absent from the journoblogosphere. I’m sure there’s lots of interesting material in there, including last month’s Carnival of Journalism.
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LoJo lessons: Carving paths toward the locative future
http://www.readership.org/blog2/2008/07/lojo-lessons-carving...10 startup companies focused on making social networks mobile. The Center for Locative Media is a good resource, especially its blog and the posts by its director, Leslie Rule, on the PBS Idealab site. A group of journalism bloggers recently weighed in with answers to this question: "Is (digital) journalism better the more local it is?" If you're interested in geographically tagged news and information, of course you should check out EveryBlock and its
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Reportr.net
http://reportr.netJune’s Carnival of Journalism, a monthly collection of thoughts from the journalism blogosphere, focused on the issue of local. The question was whether journalism is better the more local it is. The range of responses shows this is a rich area for debate.
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Local news unimportant for newspaper readers
http://reportr.net/2008/07/01/local-news-unimportant-for-new...whole debate
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The Editorialiste
http://editorialiste.blogspot.com, January 24, 2008 Jornalismo e Comunicação, January 22, 2008 Notes From A Teacher: Mark on Media, April 2, 2008 10,000 Words, April 2008 Carol Zuegner, April 14, 2008 Unfair Internships, March 20, 2008 AndyDickinson.net, June 18, 2008
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Invisible Inkling
http://ryansholin.comand crime stories always hit (literally) closer to home, and drew me in, even if it was just to criticize the paper’s coverage of a given issue. (Yes, I ended up working there for a year, too.) For more pontificating about local news, check out last weekend’s Carnival of Journalism, which I sat out with a hyperlocal sinus infection.
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Making journalism a numbers game
http://www.worldofwarcraft-news.com/wow/making-journalism-a-...be channel surfing the other day and came across a series called Numb3rs. It’s the highest of high concept - you can tell by the way they spell numbers. It’s about the ongoing adventures of an FBI special agent and his math genius Original post by Technorati Search for: world of warcraft
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Asking whether local is better in journalism is the wrong question
http://reportr.net/2008/06/30/asking-whether-local-is-better...June’s Carnival of Journalism
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Google Maps Catchup Post
http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/014935.htmlbe to put the details into a spreadsheet, pass the result through a geocoder (to convert postcodes to lat/long) and then plot different markers on a map. Here's a recipe for getting the markers onto a map from a spreadsheet with a postcode column: http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/02/29/maps-spreadsheets-yahoo-pipes-and-post-offices/ I produced a couple of maps that will do client side processing relating to markers before plotting them: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/013580.htmlLooking back at the second of the above mentioned posts, (and spotting the pipe had rotted - now
