cowbite.org: Follow Channel 4 News on Twitter “One feed from the studio, and one from the newsroom blogger. Neither dish out headlines, rather they give the snippets of goss from behind the scenes.” (tags: channel4 news twitter news2.0) Speechification –… Continue Reading
BBC World Service | Bangladesh River Journey The BBC’s voyage through Bangladesh in 2007, looking at how a heating planet changes people’s lives, used twitter, flickr, maps mashups and more to tell the story… (tags: bbc maps mashup flickr twitter… Continue Reading
Conversation Agent: Citizen Journalists and Responsibility includes a really nice visualisation of an “emerging media ecosystem” (tags: Journalism journalisttraining citizenjournalism) Book me a holiday and then find me a date – outsourcing is getting personal – Times Online (tags: outsourcing)… Continue Reading
LiveNewsCameras.com – Watch Live Streaming News From the USA & World – Beta Version Live video streams from news channels, primarily in the US (tags: news video live)
StartYourTube.com – start your own video sharing site apparently… (tags: video videosharing) Jeff Jarvis v Michael Tomasky -a debate about citizen journalism (really enjoyed this!) Veteran journalists may be nowhere near that news – because, as journalists, they had not… Continue Reading
Two weeks ago, Mayhill Fowler, who had gained access to a fundraising speech by Barack Obama because she had previously donated to his campaign, rocked Obama’s campaign by posting audio of his controversial speech about blue collar Pennsylvanians. Fowler’s recording… Continue Reading
Journalism.co.uk :: BBC embraces Russian bloggers with Live Journal partnership The BBC and blogging platform LiveJournal.com have jointly launched a citizen journalism project in to connect Russian bloggers to the news service. (tags: bbc bbcblogs livejournal russia) Academic Paper About… Continue Reading
In the run-up to the London Mayoral Election, BBC London has been giving Londoners the opportunity to submit their questions, via youtube video, to each of the main candidates. A selection of questions are then put to the candidates and… Continue Reading
Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter) Uses Google Maps on your cell phone and shows you all your Twitter friends as pinpoints on the map. So your Twitter contacts serve as your mobile social network. (tags:… Continue Reading
Today I’ve been working on a tool – I’ve dubbed it UGC Finder – for journalists that uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and filter the results of keyword searches for tagged content and conversations in social networks and media sharing… Continue Reading