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#newsrw: Follow the tweets at news:rewired

This liveblog will pick up the tweets tagged #newsrw at Friday’s news:rewired event. Follow here, or via news:rewired.com. #newsrw: news:rewired – the nouveau nicheSimilar Posts: #newsrw: How to put...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – local map widgets

Hyperlocal Google maps: mySociety has a simple step-by-step guide showing you how to display the most recent reports from its FixMyStreet service, on a local map widget. This can then be embedded on...

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Nieman Journalism Lab: Clay Shirky’s ‘Cognitive Surplus’

Nieman Journalism Lab has a review and analysis of media theorist Clay Shirky’s latest book and concept. ‘Is creating and sharing always a more moral choice than consuming,’ asks reviewer Megan Garber....

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The Media Blog: Mail falls for fake Steve Jobs tweet

Daily Mail managers might need to invest in some social media lessons for their journalists. If  you haven’t already noted the paper’s impressive Twitter fail, in its research for a misguided article...

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BuzzMachine: ‘The importance of provenance’

Jeff Jarvis has a good piece on process, sourcing and trust, initiated by a Washington Post piece about the McCrystal case that cited unnamed complainers. …[E]ditors at the Washington Post and...

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Mumbrella: Fairfax Digital responds to online video complaint

Fairfax Media, one of the main newspaper groups in Australia, has been taking external YouTube video and re-publishing it in their own media player, says Tim Burrowes of Australian marketing and media...

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Owni.fr: The mainstream press has a 17 year old rival

Owni, a French site specialising in digital journalism, reports on Federico Pignalbert, a 17 year old citizen journalist giving the mainstream press a run for their money. The media should be careful,...

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Financial Times searches for subscription building ideas – via crowdsourcing

The Financial Times has commissioned South African company Idea Bounty to help it source new revenue-making ideas. The creative mind with the best idea will win US $5,000. As the tech site MemeBurn...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – multimedia kits for all budgets

The Innovative Interactivity site has made a list of recommended multimedia gear kits for “low, moderate, and high-end budgets”. Check out suggestions for cameras, audio recorders and editing software....

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – guide to pocket-size video cameras

The BBC College of Journalism has a guide to pocket-size video cameras: it includes an excellent two-minute training video with tips on how best to use a small camera device, whether it’s Flip, Kodak...

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Radio 5 Live’s Big Mexican Wave digital project

England fans might be desperately trying to sell on their World Cup tickets, but there’s still time to join a Mexican wave in support for the remaining teams playing in South Africa. BBC’s Radio 5 Live...

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Will Google use email contact lists to build a new social network?

Rumours of Google’s new social network are flying this week. The BNET Technology blog has some thoughtful speculation about its form here. What will it look like? What elements of existing Google...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – grouping Twitter conversations

Twitter: QuoteURL helps users group different Twitter updates from different people into a single page with a permanent URL. “So you can put it on your blog or send interesting conversations to...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – style guides for the web

Style: Yahoo has entered the style guide fray – a useful addition when deciding house style on web and new media terms in particular. Tipster: Judith Townend. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use...

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – human aggregation for your beat

Research: youedit.info is a useful aggregation service that groups links shared by its editors into topics. Promote yourself by becoming an editor of its journalism channel or follow another topic to...

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How new Fourwhere maps plotting Foursquare, Yelp and Gowalla could be useful...

Fourwhere, a location-based search service, first launched a few months ago with data from geolocation gaming service Foursquare. Now it has developed its service to also include data from other...

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How to fit the whole story in the headline

It’s unlikely we have the full attention of England’s journalists this afternoon, but here’s a twitpic of an article in Dublin’s Evening Herald from @DarraghMc. He calls it the ‘most insane headline of...

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BBC Sport: Journalist claims she was slapped by Algerian footballer

A journalist has claimed that she was slapped by the Algeria footballer Rafik Saifi, after his team was knocked out of the World Cup after losing to the US, the BBC reports. The journalist who works...

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RCFP: Media organisations get involved in ‘hot news’ case

Earlier this week we reported on a ‘hot news’ ruling from March 2010, in which Barclays, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley won a victory in the federal district court, resting on the “hot news”...

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David Higgerson: ‘The dangers of data talk’

While David Higgerson, head of multimedia at Trinity Mirror Regionals, welcomes the government’s open data initiatives, he raises a few concerns on his blog, asking how long it is going to flow, for...

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