Good reads for 08.12.07
Posted on August 12, 2007 by Melissa Worden
>> Is the future of TV-watching online? Not yet, says Jennifer Woodard Maderazo.
I like TV as it happens. When I’m away from the U.S. I like to catch ABC World News on iTunes. But only when I’m away, because I prefer to see nightly news live rather than several hours later. The real-time factor is another reason why I prefer traditional television to online, and why for me ‘real’ TV won’t be going away anytime soon.
>> When a talking-head style works. Angela Grant showcases a video about a woman who is dying of lung cancer, published as a weekly video blog on The Oregonian’s Web site (love the design of these blog pages).
>> “Cheesy effects to beautifully designed typefaces”: Danny Sanchez has found a list of 80 Photoshop text tutorials, and a few more tips to share.
>> “So which typefaces are ‘bulletproof’?”: Not to be outdone, I’ve found a list of 80 gorgeous typefaces for professional design. :)
>> The BBC is taking it’s multimedia storytelling to the U.S. For their project “¿Hablas español?”, Jose Baig, Hispanic affairs correspondent, and BBC MundoCarlos Ceresole, a video producer for the Spanish American section of the BBC, will be traveling from St Augustine, Fa., to Los Angeles and visiting 12 cities along the way to see what it’s like to cross the country without speaking English.
They plan to use Flckr, Skype, Facebook, a blog and the radio to tell their story. The final product will probably be similar to Bob Hammersley’s Turkey journey.
Read more about it here:
“We’ve got to be integrated much more into the places [on the web] and the tools the audience choose to use rather than demanding that they come to a BBC site and consume content in the way we set out. There are issues surrounding that, copyright and other considerations, but if that is the way the web is working we need to be part of that too,” Richard Sambrook, director of BBC Global news, told Journalism.co.uk.
>> Man’s best friend has his own place on the Web. Lest your dog feel left out while you’re spending time on the computer instead of walking him, he now can network with his own friends. Cats have their own pages, too.
Oh, OK, I admit it. I couldn’t resist. Check out Mia and Madison’s pages.
Moral of this story: People LOVE their pets. If you don’t have a pet section on your site, you’re missing out on community building, not to mention a lot of page views. (Link via LostRemote)
>> “Citizen Journalists can be surprisingly competent reporters.”: Jonathan Dube at Cyberjournalist points to a summary by David Erickson on how the public covered the Minneapolis bridge collapse. Dube also puts together some great analysis about what this means for the future of news media.
>> Journalists say and do the darndest things. Asks Patrick Thornton: “Is it any wonder that newspapers are struggling so much? The No. 1 thing holding back journalism is journalists. Many aren’t particularly good with technology, don’t have a wide skill set and, worst of all, are unwilling to learn new techniques.” (Link via Mark Hamilton)
This quote made me laugh because I’ve heard it before, too:
“I don’t have broadband Internet, but it’s a good thing. It keeps me from spending too much time on the Web.” — a Web editor on why having dial-up Internet is a good thing for him. I bet that is one high-tech Web operation at his paper.
>> The future of journalism. Tim Rutten at the LA Times has a proposal
(Link via Romenesko):
“Sooner rather than later, the newspaper you’re holding in your hands will be very different from what it is today. Different in what way is the fair and obvious question. The honest answer is that nobody knows for certain, but the odds are it will be a hybrid publication in which an online edition that’s focused mainly on breaking news and service works in tandem with a print edition whose staples are analysis, context and opinion. The former almost surely will have a lot more video and interactivity than it does today; the latter will have to be much more thoughtful and far more intensely and carefully edited.”
Really? That’s the future? Didn’t we predict this at least five years ago? Deep sigh …
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Your dogs are very cute!
Thank you! They both have three dog friends now. LOL.
Someone HAS to include this in a social networking research study of some sort somewhere. The time people put into making their dog/cat sites is amazing.