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One handy RSS feed for 11 superb news photoblogs

Because a Web site doesn’t exist for me unless it has RSS, I made a bundle of all the feeds of 11 awesome news photoblogs recommended by 10,000 Words. My bundle is here. Sadly, six of these 11 feeds require … Continue reading

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YouTube Facilitates News Video Gathering by a World of Cameras

YouTube is tracking news video as it is uploaded to the Web at CitizenTube. I see the next steps as: Offering a way to verify baic info about the footage so it can more readily be incorporated into mainstream news … Continue reading

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Recommendations from ethnographic report on addressing the failures of one-way, bombardment-oriented advertising

The Associated Press, Context-Based Research Group and Carton Donofrio Partners investigated what online information devourers think of advertisements. This study builds off and references a previous one (pdf here) about news consumption. The main problem they’re addressing is the atomization … Continue reading

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Link: Hive mind vs. the hermit: The 2 worlds and 1 paycheck of today’s journalism

The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open, and Social Media-Savvy On the campus of Penn State University, a rivalry between a rogue campus blog and the official newspaper has become a fascinating mirror of the strife between old and new media. Don’t … Continue reading

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Link: Nonprofit watchdog joins the online journalism fray with bites into fire-prone trucks, ATV safety and employers’ injury reports

FairWarning: News of safety, health and corporate conduct | FairWarning Why did GM put the gas tanks there? “A review by FairWarning found that at least 100 people have perished by fire since federal authorities dropped an investigation that could … Continue reading

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Link: Help wanted: 160,000-plus hours of high-octane government video needs editor

C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web – NYTimes.com The video archives of the network that records numerous official proceedings of Washington are now online for your streaming and embedding pleasure. Editor please. But, no, you can’t download the … Continue reading

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