One of things about wordpress that is interesting and annoying in equal measure is the dashboard. For those who don’t wordpress: it’s the front page of the admin area.It’s got some useful stuff on there. But it is, for the most part, a feed for Wordpress news stories.
Now I often find myself clicking on them [...]

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Over the last few weeks I have been teaching second year students a number of digital tools. This week it was Google maps and I thought I would share the process I went through to create a map/mash up example to show them.
So here is the map.

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Not too interesting I know. It’s a [...]

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Mark Hamilton pointed me to a post by Minimediaguy Tom Abate who picked up on some comscore research on the time spent by users watching video.
Marks take:
Newspapers have to make a serious commitment to good video storytelling — not just getting moving pictures online —, given that there are plenty of others out there also [...]

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Charlottetown, The Guardian : Video:Child care facilities legislation
Robert Patterson points to his local paper and another lo-fi video from a campaigning teacher. Note the amount of social media the campaign group has engaged with. Cool
(tags: Video lofi)

Journalistopia » Snapshot of most popular social networks by country
An interesting graphic and social network sites you may never [...]

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This may be the most exquisite site I have seen on the web - and obviously I’m behind the game since it started in 2005. We feel fine is an aggregation of statements from blogs that contain the word “I feel” or “I am feeling”. It displays them in a number of different ways including [...]

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A heavy time of teaching and prep - I’ve been called to do Jury Service in a week or so - has kept me away from the blog. My stats have been pretty healthy though thanks to my little video contribution to the Carnival of journalism - a video guide to video strategy.
The response has [...]

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Google Earth Outreach - Tutorial: Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0
Must try this at some point
(tags: convert docs google tutorial video map googleearth googlemaps maps spreadsheets)

Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch’s Rendezvous
A fun google maps mashup that I’ll use in this weeks lecture
(tags: art film david flash google googlemaps fun mashup)

Official Google Maps API [...]

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BBC Internet Blog - iPlayer Figures and Feedback
Notes on the new iplayer and the itunes move “The Guardian’s Mark Sweney asked if “BBC iPlayer could be broadband TV’s Freeview moment?””. Ashley Highfield ponders
(tags: bbc itune iplayer)

PressThink: Okay, Ready? My Coordinates for a Successful News Site
So says Jay Rosen
(tags: digital future internet journalism news)

The Daily [...]

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