Why newspaper sites will continue to struggle with reader participation | Howard Owens
“There is simply no substitute for real, sustained, dedicated participation in the conversation by editors and reporters. Without it, newspaper sites will continue to struggle to grow and retain audience”
(tags: community conversation newspaper)

Who’s watching what online « Advancing the Story
“Web users would [...]

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A more technical video post this one that came about in a bit of a long winded way. But bare*  stickwith me
Chuck Fadley posted a link on the newspaper video group to a youtube video showing Sony’s latest HDV recorder thingy - HVR-MRC1 . It comes as standard with the HVR- XZ7 and the HVR- [...]

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News Videographer
Angela picks an example of a high-quality video illustration except that i dont thing its illustrative video. The video is great but it isnt embedded in the page. All the context is gone
(tags: video newsvideographer newspaper multimedia videojournalism)

The Journalism Iconoclast » The audacity of ambition — and innovation
Pat Thornton tells us what he wants. [...]

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Quite a few people have been hitting my post about the Guardians making video supplement. So I thought I would let you know that they have posted all the content web site.
Couple of posts worth pointing out as immediately useful, I think.
One is a video by Guardian photographer Dan Chung gets a masterclass from [...]

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Tweetmeme
The tweet tracker (via Mike Butcher at Techmeme)
(tags: rss social twitter web)

Flypaper - Stories That Stick
This looks like fun but no Mac support - “Unfortunately, in the next year we will not have a mac version. We chose to build the Flypaper application on Windows since it is really for the wider market of marketing, [...]

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What feels like a very busy few weeks has kept me off the blogging (and feed reading radar). So in that braindump kind of way, here is what caught my interest before I had to bite the bullet and press the ‘mark all as read’ button.
Colin Mulvany asks ‘do you have a video strategy’ and [...]

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More essential posting on the Digital Newsroom from Paul Bradshaw.  If you haven’t caught up with this series of posts about the changes in the newsroom then you’re missing out.
In his latest post he talks about how to make money from the web. I suppose (and it saddens me a little) that this would be [...]

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James Shaw from the Shropshire Star left a comment on my 2008 predictions post. James thought I was being a bit gloomy and left a few examples of what they have been doing. I thought it was worth shareing outside of the comments.
According to James, you can have a video strategy but…
Firstly, never think you’ll [...]

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