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Journalism RSS FeedsbIPlog has Moved!! Please Change RSS Feed and Links - bIPlog has moved to Boalt.org, the student organization for Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's Law School. We have a number of new writers who will join bIPlog, including Aaron Burstein, Brian Carver, Will DeVries, Alex Eaton-Salners, Christen Lee, Elizabeth Miles, Aaron Perzanowski and Tara Wheatland. All are law students at Boalt, and active members at Boalt. It's exciting to have bIPlog expand with new folks writing on the topics of IP, security, privacy and digital media ....Feed Source: journalism.berkeley.edu EFF Announces New Blogs - Deep. "Note worthy news links from around the internet." Mini. "A byte-sized companion to Deep Links." In the interest of choice, I'm hoping they do a demi. You know those marketing guys say that when you offer small, medium and large, by far the biggest seller is medium. Demi-link. How 'bout it? The tagline could read: "Like two espressos after lunch, with grappa. An EFF-correcto." Anyway, I'm thrilled the EFF has brought active blogging back ... Extension on Early CFP Registration - 7 More Days .... Last Day to Register on the Cheap for CFP... - Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is, Ap 20-23, 2004. The major tech policy conference of the year gets more expensive if you register after today. Act now Students are $75 today! And with a program like this, you can't justify *not* going to some of this (It's at the Clairmont Hotel in Berkeley) .... File Sharing Lawsuits At Berkeley - Well, everybody including Mark Cuban (the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who just started blogging) is talking about music and copyright somewhere, it seems. Cuban has suddenly become very active on Pho talking about the Leahy-Hatch bill proposing to make file sharing criminal. (Side Note: Mark mentioned a company he started selling powered milk as an example toward the entrepreneurial spirit he thinks the music business and RIAA should consider, instead of fighting file sharing ... China's Digital Future Conference at the JSchool Ap 30 and May 1 - Info here. From the invite: You are invited to a conference on "China's Digital Future" at the UC Berkeley campus on Friday & Saturday, April 30 & May 1, 2004, sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism. The conference features a keynote address by Stanford University Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and presentations by many scholars, technologists, business people and journalists who are experts on China. (Ed. Note: Jonathan Zittrain will be there too.) Check the ... PEW Asks Musicians... - What's the impact of the internet on your work. If you are a musician or songwriter, fill it out! Very important considering the "spate" of lawsuits that keep "flooding" consumers (sorry, just had to make fun of those words that those reporters overuse ). Jason Schultz does the math though, figuring that each filesharer would need to set aside $0.01483 cents per month average in order to cover settlements across all filesharers. But then Jason points ... Copyfight Grows... - Donna Wentworth sends news that some folks will be joining her: Elizabeth Rader, Ernest Miller, Jason Schultz, Aaron Swartz, and Wendy Seltzer. Good luck guys! And now to take off for 48 hours of much needed rest .... Spring Break... - Taking a couple of days off back Wednesday .... "You're Outsourced" Still Available - Donald Trump is trying to trademark "You're Fired" as of 2/4/04. (I think Fuck may still be available too. Or at least Fuck the FCC.) Courtesy of the Smoking Gun. Update: doncha just love how the press deals with IP? So ABC is talking about how Trump has filed a "copyright" request with the PTO, and Left, Right and Center on NPR just said that Trump has filed a "patent" request for "You're Fired." I'll ... Behavior Mod by Comcast, or Mickey Mouse Internet - by Farhad Manjoo/Salon (sub req or watch ad). "We use the Net as a lifeline," George says. "For anybody for whom this isn't their native country, you'd understand." But Comcast, the company that provides George's high-speed Internet service, didn't understand. Last August, the company sent him a letter telling him to quit it -- he was using the Internet too much. The firm said he was violating Comcast's "acceptable use" policy, that he was somehow ... Dylan/Garamond Make Digital Music Together - Sean Savage says: I know, you're not quite so sure about Garamond. But you -know- you're into Bob Dylan. So give it a chance. Indulging my fantasies about moveable typefaces. Course, the Zepplin/Times NR is pretty hot, though BigG/Baskerville has really nice letters. But the Beatle's Dear Prudence/Book Antiqua has to be my fav. Now that's art .... Matrix is Losing Member States - Due to privacy fears. John Schwartz/NYT reports that only 5 of the original 16 states are still in the program. Matrix was supposed to relate databases across many states and had funding from the Homeland Security Administration, and the purpose was to sift through records to find patterns of suspect behavior, among other things. BIPlog reported on this before, though it wasn't mentioned in any of the presentations at the Privacy conference I attended this ... Privacy on Several Fronts - Yesterday, I attended the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society's "Securing Privacy in the Internet Age" Symposium. It's going on today but I'm not attending. Too many conferences, and I have a lot of work to do before tomorrow. So it was a great day, interesting presentations on lots of privacy issues, including but not limited to leaky technologies like RFID, Sensor Networks (Pam Samuelson's new research area), as well as policies on ... DRM? Chris Willis Nails It - On screen now at Media Morphosis Day 3: "Insure content security with baked in Digital Rights Management." Chris: What's the point? Michael Silberman: I think DRM could be used to keep people from stealing, and get them to pay for content. And it could be used to facilitate the making of content. No. Not. DRM for news? Okay, your content has high value for maybe, 24 hours? You want to lock it up? There is ... A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Web Design - By Robert Niles: CHICAGO - I recently spent an afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago, admiring, among many other works, the museum's famed "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," the impressionist masterpiece by Georges-Pierre Seurat.
What on Earth does this have to do with online journalism?, I hear you ask.
Plenty. For starters, Seurat's use of pointillism might be considered the intellectual catalyst behind the pixilation that makes all broadcast imagery, including Web pages, possible. Standing in front of this work forces the viewer to consider how countless multiple parts can come together to create a coherent whole.
And isn't that something a Web designer ought to be doing all the time? ... Kids and digital storytelling: Who will teach them? - By Robert Niles: As a former statistics major, I know that no one should read too much into a single example. But watching my 10-year-old son embrace video production is challenging some of my beliefs about the timing and content of journalism education.
But it's not just my son. For many of his elementary school classmates, producing and distributing video has become as ubiquitous as writing and passing paper notes was to students of my generation. I've seen kids whip out Flip cameras and cellphones at school events and around the neighborhood, recording their conversations, performances and play.
Don't mistake this as the activity of a privileged few. These are children at a public school where more than half the students are receiving free or reduced-price lunches. Thanks to cheap cellphones and Flips, digital video technology has become so inexpensive that it's penetrated well beyond the middle class into poor segments of American society.
When I taught journalism in the univer... From the classroom to the digital marketplace: How we got to launch - By Pamela Moreland: The team behind foodgal.com called my bluff. Well, maybe I wasn’t bluffing. Maybe I am ready to become a digital media entrepreneur. We’ll find out on Thursday (July 22, 2010).
Here’s the back story. I took a buyout from the San Jose Mercury News in March 2008. I was the AME for Features when I left. My intent was to start my own digital media company. During my 20-plus years in journalism, I had supervised the creation of news and feature sections, redesigns and special projects. That was on top of meeting daily deadlines. With my three years as the Merc’s newsroom-based Online Team Leader for mercurynews.com, I had hands-on experience with news sites and felt the exhilarating rush that comes with Web publishing.
I started Golden Wheel Communications (GWC), a digital news and information company. I talked a good game. I went to workshops financing startups. I attended KDMC’s Media News Entrepreneur Boot Camp. I took a Stanford night class called “Running Internet... Diversity 2.0: Recruiting a new, tech-savvy, generation of journalism students - By Robert Niles: I don't need to explain to journalism educators the importance of recruiting and admitting a diverse student body. Journalism educators realized, more than a generation ago, that graduating few other than white, middle-to-upper-income students would not well serve the economically and racially diverse, internationally-flavored communities that journalists are called to report upon and serve.
But as journalism continues to respond to the second decade of the Internet revolution, it should be apparent to all in our field that ethnic, racial and economic diversity isn't enough any longer. Journalism education needs to accommodate, and welcome, students whose skills sets and interests range far beyond the stereotype of math-phobic storytellers.
With the Internet enabling so many new ways to connect the public with information relevant to their lives, the news industry needs to bring more people with entrepreneurial initiative, community organizing skills and computer pro... Online, news archives never die, nor do they fade away - By Robert Niles: Two state judges in Pennsylvania recently ordered newspapers to take down online stories about criminal cases after charges against the defendants were expunged. The newspapers refused, citing the First Amendment's prohibition against the government restricting the freedom of the press. Last week, the judges relented, and the papers were allowed to keep the stories online in their public archives.
Do not for a moment believe, however, that this was a victory for journalism.
Courts routinely expunge the indictment records of defendants, especially for relatively minor offenses by first-time defendants who stay out of trouble for a specific period of time after their arrest. Prosecutors also can decide to withdraw charges before a case completes trial. However, in some communities, the local newspaper runs stories or notices about those arrests when they happen. One of the duties in my first newspaper job was to compile the nightly "police beat," collecting and writing... A new production model for news reporting: Outsourcing - By Jason Stverak: When your cell phone breaks or your computer crashes you no longer expect to speak to a call center in the United States. Numerous companies have outsourced parts of their business operations to contractors in other countries in an effort to improve their bottom line and increase productivity. Regardless of the public perception of outsourcing jobs, there can be financial benefits. However, a domestic form of outsourcing now is reaching the struggling news industry. It was the topic of a recent Washington Post column by Howard Kurtz.
In The age of journalistic outsourcing, Kurtz argues that while traditional print media struggle, new journalism organizations, mostly non-profits, are “giving the restless and the jobless a second lease on life.” But why has it taken so long for the legacy media to realize the untapped potential of online non-profit organizations?
Many online non-profit news organizations have been around for decades. They produce quality investigative... Style point: Have you ever met a 'white' person or a 'black' person? - By Benjamin Davis: I am developing the new syllabus for my fall journalism course at Rutgers and I will be re-enforcing the need for telling the truth in journalism. No longer will my students refer to a “black” person or a “white” person. They will have to use their creative vocabularies to come up with a different way to describe people when writing news stories.
I have never met a “black” person and I certainly have never met a “white” person. This truth has been a part of my teaching for eight-years, but beginning in the fall students will not write stories using those terms.
To make my point, I ask a “white” student if he or she has “black” friends. If they do, I promise I will give them $100 for an introduction. With the same promise I ask a “black” student if he or she has “white” friends. Every time the answers are enthusiastically affirmative to having “black” and “white” friends. They salivate looking forward to the cash as any college student would. You should see th... More on writing high-earning evergreen topic pages for news websites - By Robert Niles: I wanted to address some questions and reactions to my piece last week about optimizing news websites for maximum AdSense revenue.
The questions focused on my final recommendation: "Create sharply focused evergreen topic pages"
Since this is the most important of my recommendations, I felt it deserved some extra attention, especially since some folks appear to be having a tough time wrapping their heads around it. If you follow all the rest of my advice but fail to create evergreen topic pages on your website, you might notice an improvement in AdSense earnings, but you won't earn lucrative CMPs without them. ... Global voices detail a history of gender bias in journalism - By Sandra Ordonez: For the past two years, the OurBlook team has been busy collecting opinions from diverse industry experts on the future of journalism. We had an unsettling realization – if journalists were having a hard time keeping up with the changing media landscape, journalism departments were having an even harder time. This instigated our team to launch the University Partnership Program [UPP], which provides professors with free and customized Web, technology and research help to make classrooms more interactive, and help students gain new media skills.
One of the most successful UPP stories of transformation has been with a gender and mass media class at the University of Iowa, taught by Pamela Creedon, former director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at both the University of Iowa and Kent State University. With some digital assistance from the OurBlook team, Creedon has created an interactive classroom setting that exposes students to critical journalis... How to optimize your news website for better Google AdSense revenue - By Robert Niles: A hot topic of discussion during last month's KDMC News Entrepreneur Boot Camp was online advertising networks, specifically Google's AdSense program for publishers. More than one speaker cautioned the participants to not expect much from AdSense. At the camp and at other industry gathering, I've heard many folks dismiss AdSense revenues as delivering CPMs "in the pennies."
Yet I know, from personal experience and from speaking with other publishers in the program, that much higher returns are possible, including daily average CPMs in double digits - and yes, I mean dollars, not cents.
How can a news website publisher earn more money from AdSense? I suspect that because starting with the program is so easy - you can set it up with little or no thought at all - that many AdSense publishers give the program little or no thought.
That's a huge mistake. Everything that you do on your website - from design to reporting to community management to advertising - should b... Copyright © 2010, Selling on Ebay, Make Money on Ebay. All Rights Reserved. |