October 13, 2005
The Institute for Interactive Journalism reports that the Web site
chicagocrime.org, an innovative overlay of the city's reported crimes with Google Maps won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in
Journalism.
Top honors also went to $2,000 First Place winner, The View, Interactive Magazines Online, while $1,000 Awards of Distinction went to the News & Record's "Town Square," Minnesota Public Radio's Public Insight Journalism and Newsday's "The Cost of War.
Check out the winners and the
press release for more.
J-Learning.org is J-Lab's how-to site for community publishing and a companion to the New Voices citizen media initiative. J-Learning covers Web hosting, HTML coding, digital photography,
new media reporting and more.
Poynter has some tips on making photo maps.
If, as I have, you've been noting with interest how people have been riffing on the Google Maps API to come up with some cool visual information applications, you might be interested in SmugMug's
latest offering. In my mind, the new service offered by this 3-year-old
company is sort of a mix of a photo-sharing service like Flickr and Google Maps. (Go to this page and you'll understand the concept.)
Here's an example of someone using SmugMug to document his biking trip around the world.
Perhaps there's a tie-in for citizen journalism; imagine using a
service like this to encourage people to, say, submit photos and
descriptions of their gardens, all linked to locations on a satellite
map of your city
href="http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=79244#series" target=new>Poynter has 50 Writing Tools for Journalists.
But newspaper readership is down. On an average weekday, about 55 million newspapers are sold nationally, down from 63 million in 1985, according to Editor and Publisher magazine. Fewer young people are picking them up, and the average age of a newspaper reader is now 55, according to a Carnegie Corporation study.
Simultaneously, new technologies are presenting new opportunities.
Nokia's Lifeblog works with a variety of Nokia multimedia phones. Palm OS devices, like the Treo 650, can use HBlogger or SplashData (below), a wireless photo-blogging solution. FeederReader and PocketBlogger work on a PocketPC.
Adam Curry uses a T-Mobile MDA III Pocket PC phone. He is planning to geo-podcast, recording audio reports combined with location information, so that listeners could follow along using a map or satellite photo. His iPodder is available for the PocketPC. The MDA IV has a tablet-like swivel screen, megapixel camera, WiFi and SD slot.
Melodeo and
Pod2Mob work on cellphones. Podcasting News has the latest.
The $500 million dollars that advertisers spend annually on ABC, CBS, and NBC news programs will shift to more targeted forms of distribution. Local broadcasters bought tickets on the ATSC Titantic. They're not going anywhere. Newspapers have a staff. They have WiMax, MediaFLO and DVB-H.
They've got the world on a string. Sitting on a rainbow.
Look. It's simple economics.
Here's how newspapers will change. College journalism labs and entrepreneurs will re-create the form and content of "news". It might look like The View, it might look like CBC's Radio3, a Video Blog Syndicate or something completely different. It will be revolutionary. The $100 e-book reader will take over.
End of story.
Related DailyWireless stories include Access Points as Pencils, Mapping Cloud Users,
Camphones for Journalists,
Rebuilding Media, Newspaper Podcasts?,
Portable Photostories,
Global Blog,
NY Times Blinkx, Video Search, Video Search,
Multi-Media Interoperability, BBC's Mobile Video, CBS/Comcast Broadband,
Handheld Tablets,
MDA IV PocketPC Phone, Rollout e-Reader,
Interactive TV News, The Feed Room,
ABC News Now Looks to Future, Publishers Buy Online Content, The Free Triple Play,
IP-TV Settops,
Mobile TV Expands,
Verizon Does Cellular TV,
Video Search,
Big Media Mobilizes, and
U.S. Gets MobileTV via DVB-H.
This is an articulate snapshot of what I also imagine to be the situation. I will refer to this posting. Thanks for writing it and please do more like it.
We just launched a site similar to Smugmug Maps, but radically different interface: Panoramio.com
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We've been having a back channel conversation amongst the trackers at unmediated about how/whether to update the way in which we aggregate, present, and make useable the content on the site, in light of all the various aggregators, digg and its clones, and role model group blog sites that we all consume/use/hate/love. Since we all primarily support open media movements and the freedom of bits and so forth, and with all of us being busy with our primary projects, we are looking for ways to make getting content on the site easier and more streamlined, while making it obvious that we are presenting other sources content. With the availability of open API's for just about any type of media aggegration literally getting past the saturation point, and mashups taking every possible form, we are wondering, is it time to take a step back, or a step forward with how/what we do at umediated? In the course of my surfing today, i found this new site, Boxxet Which just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back in how we all perceive the current mix and match nature of the web as it now stands. What's different about Boxxet from other aggregators and mashups like the newest entry popurls, (which aggregates digg, slashdot, reddit, newsvine, tailrank, and flickr) is that Boxxet is a Website generator. Thats right, just pop in all the urls u want to aggregate (and WHAT from them) choose how u want to format it, plug in the url that u want it to be accessed at... and whammo: Your own site with everyone elses content, and all thats left to do is decide whether googleplex or yahooza is going to be the source of your linklove revenue. And if u have on older domain that u plug this into...well, we all know how the pageranking with search engines work by now. It used to be that u had to have a bit of code knowledge to make all this stuff work. Eyebeam's Re-blog engine which powers this site was not a simple undertaking at the time that Michael Frumin and Michael Migurski put it all together... a half a year before Marc Broadband-mechanicked the term Reblog as his latest buzzword before casting his attention on the ourmedia-meme. (kudo's, kudo's) But now, with the cut and paste mentality of webculture that we at unmediated have helped create, the pace at which people are remixing and repurposing code is accelerating at a rate similar to the curve that we saw with pro-sumer desktop video... almost anyone can do it. I have this sinking feeling in my gut that we will arrive sooner than later at the same existential threshold that the film studios and record labels are squirming under to our joyful cries of "die, dinosaurs, die!". What i am wondering, is how long until my hero of the open-information movement, Cory Doctorow, and the rest of our pals at BB will tolerate re-aggregation and repurposing of his content, (now that he is investing so much more time at the site) before he (or any of one us) screams, "FOUL!" Stewart Butterfield over at Flickr is dealing with this beast at the moment...and i have to admire the dryness with which he states, "I loaded the FlickrCentral pool and firefox got up to using 240mb of ram before dying. So that's not a great user experience, but it's really terrible for Flickr. If it catches on and you don't limit it, we'll have to cut you off :\" Sure, Stewart, blame it on the user experience and firefox. ;) I admire your candor, and personal attention/approach to what has become one of the hottest new BRANDS in Web 2.0 ...that u still have time to be personal and all flickr-fuzzy even after being acquired, but I am sure that your jeans feel like they're fitting a bit tighter all of a sudden. Pretty soon, I expect, a lot of us bell-bottomed infornistas are going to wake up in a similar pair of Jordaches. I'm curious which of us will cut the inseams and sew in another totally different material to keep our style,and which of us will claim that now that we're wearing skintight jeans ("they're really really comfortable...REALLY! You think i should get a pair of Reeboks to go with 'em?"), that the manufacture of bell-bottoms should be forbidden. I point this all out in good humour only to illustrate a point: The times, they are('nt) a changin'>, and Cory just might wake up one day soon in his magic kingdom, and say "Hey, man, where'd all my whuffie go? And he's going to have no choice but to join Walt's pinstripesuits in pushing for copyright extension. It's a pill i hope he (and we) never have to swallow. So i pose the question to our community readers: How do you see unmediated-Are we crossing the boundaries in how we repurpose content? Would you like to see more editorializing? Narrower/Broader scope? Are we a repository of information that you come back to use, or just part of your daily information addiction? Let us know... I, for one, would like to have an idea about what pair of jeans to wear this year ;) michael
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This is an articulate snapshot of what I also imagine to be the situation. I will refer to this posting. Thanks for writing it and please do more like it.
Posted by: tom abate at October 13, 2005 11:44 PM