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Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues
Old media knows the relationship with its audience has changed, but it is still not quite sure how to deal with it.
(tags: communication community media journalism)

From Flickr user Andyi
It’s Carnival of Journalism time and Ryan Sholin steps up to the plate to host. He helpfully suggests a question to chew over for this months meeting of j-minds
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?
Great question?
A lot of people have already posted great suggestions so [...]

British Board of Film Classification has launched a voluntary online ratings scheme | UK news | guardian.co.uk
“The British Board of Film Classification launched a new voluntary online ratings scheme today, extending its established ratings labels such as U, 15 and 18 to digital downloads and video games.”
(tags: BBFC rating video online download)

Citizen News @ YouTube [...]

Image by thenez via Flickr

My department has an outpost in China and Matt (our man in china) sent word of a project based on Google groups that his students have been involved with called Life and Death, Love and Pain: Snapshots of Sichuan Earthquake
On the site, one of the people working on it explains the [...]

I’m involved in two days of an exciting Meld project and as part of that I am showing ( or may mention) a number of bits of technology and services. I needed a place to put the links to access them and thought I would share them here.
It’s all stuff that has made me [...]

I won some money

I have won some money (well, funding) to do some research. This is both good (it’s always nice to win) and scary (more for the research community than anyone else.
Sandbox (see their site to get an idea of what they do as Iwould just make a hash of explaining it) offers grants for people in [...]

Many of you may remember the Reuters MOJO project a while back that had an Nokia N95 at its heart. One of things that most interested me about the thing was the special audio adaptor that Nokia built for them. I remember at the time thinking that it would be cool to have one.
I don’t [...]

Here is a little quote to start the post.
“If I had ten divisions of those men, then our troubles here would be over very quickly.”
Responding to the general discussion about who is working the digital news vein, Pat Thornton has posted another take on the problems with management pointing out that Management should reflect demographics [...]

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