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links for 2008-09-18

Chiclet generator - RedKid.Net
A neat little app, one of many on this kid friendly site that generates neat little butons
(tags: web2.0 tools)

links for 2008-09-11

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Twitter, Qik, Flip - how to cover news?
Rory covers an apple event with consumer tech. Great video of the moving mouth of Cellan-Jones. Seriously though, it's useful to have examples of the MSM trying this stuff out and refelcting on it properly.
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An interesting challenge both in terms of the competition and what it says to the industry.
But a thought struck me. Do we need a competition for this? Who is the validation for?
If the mainstream media had its reationship with the audience right then it would be highlighting the good stuff from the ‘average citizens documenting [...]

links for 2008-09-10

Invisible Inkling - Online News tools
A short list of free resources and online apps from Ryan.
(tags: tools reporting onlinejournalism online)

How to create graphs and charts that pop :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews
This guy just keeps churning out really useful resource pointers. Interesting stuff.

Embeddable slides and other tools for journalists | [...]

A few tweets from Sarah Hartley gave me an idea for an iphone app:
I’m going to call it iwall and it’s specially designed to give you a portable bit of wall to bang your head against when you are in a meeting.
Taking advantage of the tough build quality of the iphone this little app takes [...]

Lots of things have got in the way if finishing my little review of what the top regional papers are doing with video but, battling through, I’m at the end of the list. Last but by no means least is the Bradford Telegraph and Argus

The T&A is owned by Newsquest (in turn owned by Gannett [...]

links for 2008-09-06

1000 things I’ve learned about blogging | Online Journalism Blog
Proof of why I've learned thousands of things from Paul's blogging
(tags: blogging)

links for 2008-09-05

The Editblog » An Editblog software review: Avid Media Composer 3
The strong man has gone!

MacVideo - Camera Technology - News - New Product: Canon HG20 camcorder
This could be one to watch

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