Very impressed with this first piece of video from #MAOnlineJournalism student @franzibaehrle http://t.co/6GdXhcsz

@alexwoodcreates here you go: http://t.co/avCefcjQ #cityOJ

A Storify of what #Android phones people recommended on Twitter http://t.co/y8yO726q

There's a list of special #postcodes on Wikipedia: http://t.co/k2o0H39a (including many media orgs)

Quite a few tweets about @Delicious deleting accounts: http://t.co/9ruRrFmK

RT @kiyanwang: Interesting … “@newsycombinator: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers http://j.mp/psLhvU”

Great anecdote about metrics in this piece http://t.co/wBMcxkJR

Photo: myjournonotes: http://t.co/3ES3iBTe

A post I wrote @helpmeinvestig8: Investigating bribery: 5 things to look for http://t.co/ieawCZ2y

Tips on starting to use twitter as a journalism student from @AndrewStuart: http://t.co/yuTHhOds #cityOJ

RT @billt: RT @newsbrooke: Would you pass a social network background check? http://t.co/4k3ABthQ (no chance for me, then)

RT @hackshackersbhx: Hacks & Hackers event in Liverpool on data journalism and the Olympics http://t.co/XebEl86X

RT @jonhickman: Here's your future: trendspotting by my 3rd years #B225studio http://t.co/7iCwbTte

RT @CBM: Did The New York Times just lay off About.com’s entire editorial team? http://t.co/vc9eytLM

RT @samuelcharron: RT @nicolaskb: How good are your statistical numeracy skills? Take the #test! http://j.mp/n3y7f6 #ddj #statistics

.@helenlawson7 here are 50 RSS feeds to get you started – in easy to use Google Reader Bundles http://t.co/7kPMjHXf #cityOJ

Interesting use of #Tumblr to blog class notes RT @t30d0ra: An experiment: http://t.co/ZCQAZ0Mv #cityhacks #cityoj any feedback welcome

RT @psmith: This is what a stack looks like on the new Delicious http://t.co/qRWWLizU #CityOJ

Poll: Let's put it to a vote: which of the following would you recommend to a student journalist? http://t.co/T5W7GNZd #android

Some really useful comments on the blog post: http://t.co/s99ubjVF #android

RT @adders: Integrated newsrooms must remember print and digital are different products http://j.mp/mSKqXs <— so hard to achieve, t …

Do you use an Android phone, and if so why would you recommend that model for journalists? (A student asked me… http://t.co/KJ9txrHt

Trust #delicious to relaunch the evening after I do a #cityOJ lecture on the old version http://t.co/M4mrL6bc

The BBC wants to be your online TiVo | Online Video News: The list also contains links to episodes available onl… http://t.co/035ZTfE7

The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.

The list also contains links to episodes available online, and shows can be tracked even when on hiatus. The whole thing utilizes a very simplified UI, looking more like the unfinished work of a startup than something that a seasoned broadcaster would launch. The BBC’s R&D department explained in a blog post that the site is part of an effort to explore “how people remember programmes and how best to help them do that.”

10 inspiring accounts to follow on #Instagram

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When you create your video, there are only three parts that you can control: the Title, Description, and the video’s Tags. These are all vital for your video to be seen and make sure that they’re of the best standard, keyword AND quality wise. These are factors you have control over, but there’s other things you can’t change, such as the amount of views, the amount of likes, and the comments. The basic rule of thumb is the more uncontrolled factors the better, although there are a few variables, which will be explained shortly.

RT @edyong209: RT @ferrisjabr Hacker/writer Nik Cubrilovic says "Even if you are logged out, Facebook can track every page you visit" ht …

Liking the blog of #cityOJ student @ericabuist http://t.co/684eVN3W

RT @Rosental: Journalist is decapitated in Mexico, body left w/ threat against use of social media; press quiet about it http://t.co/m0w …

Photo: (via The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out – Peter Kafka – Social – AllThingsD) http://t.co/T2OjDQdX

New! (sort of) On the blog: A network infrastructure for journalists online http://t.co/vOgWVDiX

RT @t30d0ra: My notebook half-way through the lecture #cityoj http://t.co/UumPOmyU

More on @fieldproducer & @acarvin here http://t.co/tqZuOMyI #cityOJ

#cityoj this week's special guest @fieldproducer http://t.co/IbTSTmH8

My ritual coffee en route to the first class @cityjournalism (@ Starbucks) http://t.co/X2QAAoKg

Pew Internet: Diving Into How We Access Local News Search Engine Land: The study also found that “for the 79%… http://t.co/5Wthpr0V

A UBM digital exec writes: Why we moved to the future of media measurement: http://t.co/OZdofVhv

If “he said, she said” journalism is irretrievably lame, what’s better? » Pressthink: Voice of San Diego: New Re… http://t.co/QgXSXqPo

How Do You Detect B.S. On Social Networks? « 10,000 Words: The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Er… http://t.co/pMXJbeKa

RT @t30d0ra: To all fellow interactives @cityjournalism: here's a #infographic re: social media jobs http://t.co/JieEpkoZ by @mashable

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting wants to fill that gap with a newly released social media handbook for stations, which is hosted at the National Center for Media Engagement website. CPB commissioned the marketing firm iStrategy Labs to write a guide that targets a broad audience: not just the stations who need guidance, but the stations who still need convincing of social media’s value.

Even backed by corporate owner LOGO (which is in turn owned by Viacom), the long-standing news site 365gay.com will shut down on Sept. 30. As editor Jennifer Vanasco noted, “LOGO has shifted its online strategy and so the site is closing.”Gay news blog Bilerico let go of its managing editor and is down to a single employee running the show.Queerty, a site that was one of the top 50 political blogs on Technorati, shut down for weeks this April after its business development partner decided that gay niche blogging was unprofitable. It has since been unable to truly recover.Pam’s House Blend, a site that also broke into the ranks of the top 50 political blogs on Technorati every odd year or so had to transition from an independent site to a larger, corporate progressive site this year.

In the role of war correspondent ('warco') Jesse DeMarco, the player must capture battle footage and edit together a news story, while trying to make it out alive.
All footage is taken from the proof of concept playable developed in UDK – all in game, barring the final news story which would be edited together by the player from the war footage they've captured.

Video: Warco July 2011 (by DefiantDevelopment) http://t.co/CP014NXM

CryptDB – A PostGres modification that stores data in a securely encrypted way, but still allows efficient queries. I love the idea, can't wait to see the software.

If you’re anything like me, in these hectic times of digital distractions, you can scarcely devote time to read anything longer than 140 characters, much less write a 750-word post critiquing the latest album. Do we any longer have time to devote to indulging our passions in their respective corners of the internet? Are we content merely to fire our briefest of thoughts out in to the ether, to whomever may be following us? To real-world friends and our professional peers who may not care to engage on the topic? In social media, we have become expressive, performative, but not necessarily conversational.

AVE” (ABC Visualisation Editor). As I envision it, this may very well do for timelines what Soundslides did for audio slideshows. Read my interview with Sam Doust, Creative Director of Strategic Development at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, to learn more about this tool and when you can expect to test it out for yourself

Voice of San Diego: New Reporter Guidelines. We only do something if we can do it better than anyone or if no one else is doing it. * We must add value. We must be unique. Three things to remember for each story: * Context * Authority * Not just what is happening, but what it means There is no such thing as objectivity. * There is such thing as fairness. * But everyone sees everything through their own filter. Acknowledge that, let it liberate you. Let it regulate you.

Michelle showed the audience how to make an interactive chart that graphs crime data using Google Chart Tools. She posted a full tutorial on her website and the downloadable source code for the visualization. Here are the key links you need to build a chart yourself:

The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Error‘s Craig Silverman held a session at the Online News Association Conference here on Friday afternoon with the goal of preventing the participants from falling into a trap. (Slides from the presentation are available here.)

Love the fact that there's a Lego wiki called… Brickipedia http://t.co/gHBWShWe

EC VP Kroes On Standardization and Open Data / News / News / Home – ePSIplus – Public Sector Information: In her… http://t.co/zDJjX5jb

In her speech she presented the progress made towards a new legal framework for European Standardisation, and interoperability. Saying that "standards are indispensable for openness, freedom and choice", she said that in the coming years the focus of work will be to make the proposed legal framework become law as soon as possible. Furthermore also the new European Interoperability Framework has been created that will help create more and better interoperability, such as for cross-border public services in Europe.

RT @jasonhall: Launching a new thing on 5th October and I need your support. Come along for fun night out and find out more > http:// …

MSD, it seems, have a contract with the NHS to supply the drug. We’ve been told that part of that contract is a guarantee of supply. That has simply failed. Someone on Twitter told me they’d had a similar experience a while ago – it turned out the manufacturer was diverting all supplies to Europe, where they sell for a higher price. Is that what is happening here?

New post: New #Facebook news apps: bring the news to your users, or invite users to your news? http://t.co/9qpLSduy

"As we worked with different news organisations there were two camps: people that wanted to bring the social experience onto their sites, like Yahoo [News] and the Independent; and those that wanted the social news experience on Facebook, like Guardian, the Washington Post and the Daily," director of Facebook's platform partnerships Christian Hernandez told Journalism.co.uk.

@Colbear a photo of Um Bongo in the Congo, that is http://t.co/1dxzYxu4

@Colbear here's the footnote reference: http://t.co/qbblywdl I particularly like the footnote with a link to a blog of someone's photo of it

RT @lakey: Wikipedia: "It was believed it was unlikely that Um Bongo is drunk in the Republic of the Congo" http://t.co/yE4hCTTk

Data journalism survey: a mixed picture (guest post for the Data Driven Journalism site):… http://t.co/kupqJdcO

For the last few months, I've been using the act as a benchmarking tool, finding out how many campaign actions different Whitehall departments have received over the last 12 months and publishing them on my thoughtful campaigner blog. But the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' (NCVO) guide, Your Right to Know, gives examples of charities using it for other purposes:

• Bliss, a neo-natal charity used it for research purposes to gain access to information for local authorities, which was then collated into a policy report.

• The Campaign Against the Arms Trade used it to highlight the activities of the UK government overseas and access key documents that have helped to further inform its campaigning work.

• Campaign for Clean Air in London used the environmental information regulations to get information about deaths due to poor air quality in London which led to significant media coverage.

Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates.
The disclosure – made in data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act – will raise fresh fears over the Coalition’s controversial higher education reforms.

Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, said: "These extraordinary exchanges shed further light on the murky dealings around Michael Gove. We already know that Dominic Cummings lobbied for cash to be given to the New Schools Network 'without delay', an organisation he went on to work for. We now learn that on arrival he sought to implement a restrictive and secretive approach to dealing with parliamentary enquiries.

"It would seem that Dominic Cummings holds an arrogant disregard for government processes and accountability to parliament. I have asked the cabinet secretary to investigate the actions of Dominic Cummings and other advisers to Michael Gove."

New post: Scraperwiki now makes it easier to ask questions of data… http://t.co/ZsqTFdih

RT @johnpopham: Libraries & universities left fuming as evidence BPI & MPA pushed to effectively outlaw open Wi-Fi http://t.co/QsPLGxU0 …

So we thought it was high time to ask the SEOs who work on some of the world’s top news sites including NYTimes, CNN, HuffingtonPost, ABC News, ESPN and more to give up the goods. The results of the survey are listed on the left-hand nav of the site.

RT @newsbrooke: RT @PaulLewis: This'll make reporting future riots *much* more dangerous > BBC, ITN and Sky News give riot foo… (cont …

MediaShift Idea Lab . PANDA Survey Shows Newsrooms Swimming in Data | PBS: One of the most striking things t… http://t.co/6k5cuQqW

Some newsrooms worry that without ArcView, their spatial capabilities are limited. Fear not: QGIS has quietly come of age. Over the past few years it has become easier to use and far more powerful. It’s now a more than worthy replacement for the old ArcView standby. There’s no dearth of resources for getting your feet wet with spatial analysis in QGIS. Here are a few links to get you started:

Very interesting looking international conference on investigative sport journalism http://t.co/435oWKHE

Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts (PDF): http://t.co/qlqNPHXu

Diverse types of news websites compete with one another to attract Internet users’ attention. This context raises the following questions: Do different news websites update their content on a real-time basis to attract users? What is the status of immediacy in online media? This study casts doubt on the notion that vast amounts of instantly changed news circulate among online media. This doubt asserts that the immediacy of online news is a myth because it reflects only the beliefs of researchers, journalists, and users. Further, this myth ignores the fact that institutional practices govern the news production activity of news websites. This mythological nature of immediacy has not received sufficient attention in previous research. This study tracks news websites in South Korea, a leading country in broadband penetration, to demonstrate this mythological status of immediacy.

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Video: Moritz Stefaner – Eyeo Festival 2011 (by Eyeo Festival) http://t.co/pjdxjaHr

KNIME stands for Konstanz Information Miner and it’s a quite famous data mining tool. It has a large group of followers in the area of pharmaceutical companies but I suspect it is little known to data visualization experts. The whole issue of what is the role of Data Mining in visualization deserves a whole blog post, and it’s in my plans to talk diffusely about that. But here KNIME is suggested for two main reason:

This research examines whether people who contribute to local news sites achieve feelings of community typically associated with America's “Third Places” (an Oldenburg, 1991, term that refers to the coffee shops, libraries and other community gathering spots). The article posits that some so-called “citizen journalists” find that they enhance their individual fulfillment, empowerment over information and local communal connections when they contribute to local news sites and blogs online. The research also explored why some otherwise motivated people remain non-contributors. Four realms of tension inhibit full engagement—perceptions of a social collective, authority over information, temporal confusion, and a spatial discomfort between physical and virtual worlds.

Media History Digital Library – Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound: We a… http://t.co/sLw0wOFo

We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 200,000 pages, and that number is growing.

RT @alexgamela: New post:: The news website of the future? New portuguese project P3 presents bold layout http://t.co/2y6iz21v

Vimeo is selling you music for your videos – One Man and His Blog: I was hunting for some music for a video proj… http://t.co/PICC3hFT

I was hunting for some music for a video project the other day, and struggled to find reasonably-priced selections of tracks to be used in that sort of context. Given the boom in popularity in online video in recent years, I was genuinely surprised there wasn't something like the Vimeo Music Store. But now there is. Given that I've utterly exhausted the possibilities of the music that ships with iMovie, I suspect I'll be digging into this store a fair amount.

the network is considering following Fox in limiting access to its full-length episodes to viewers who pay for cable or satellite TV.
Since launching the latest version of its iPad app, some wondered if the decision signaled a chance in the way NBC thought about access to its content online and on mobile devices. In particular, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield suggested the move positioned NBC and Fox digital strategies at “180 degree polar opposites.” But that’s not necessarily true; Zigler said the network was evaluating the possibility of also extending authenticated access to its own content online and on mobile devices like the iPad.

Zuckerberg's Law': [the] quantity of social sharing doubles every 12 months. [The t]rend has held at [Facebook] for 4 years." Whatever the numbers, it's absolutely clear that the new social platforms enable breakneck growth. Instagram is growing twice as fast as Foursquare which is growing faster than Twitter did which grew faster than Facebook did. This is because as social platforms grow, the amount of sharing that goes on them grows exponentially, which means new services can be distributed even faster. And you can't even find Instagram photos on Google: you can find the app's site, but if you search for a particular user's Instagram page, you can't find it on Google. Google was once the overwhelmingly important platform for a startup's growth, and no it's not just #2 but utterly irrelevant to the fastest-growing notable startup.  

RT @journonest: A tour of the @birminghammail and @birminghampost offices courtesy of @brumroadrunner http://t.co/khmzmirM

Here's a project: shall we go to Ladbrokes tomorrow & find out what odds they'll *really* give us on this bet? http://t.co/SrYJjfiO

Bookies jump on PR opportunity to quote odds of "a million-to-one" – would they give you those odds at the counter? http://t.co/oMhQEJTj

Photo: (via The 20-Minute SEO Audit Infographic | Search Engine Journal) http://t.co/iktWWo6V

In a FOLIO: Q&A, Martin shares what he considers to be the biggest advancements in magazine manufacturing, the challenges of the new dual print/digital workflow (and why digital isn’t necessarily less expensive), and how he’s managed to save 7 to 8 percent on paper costs year-after-year.

“In some ways, it’s exciting – we’ve all felt somewhat held to ransom by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). But, in some ways, it adds additional confusion and pressure on our development teams.”

David r was banned in July. Banning is a social measure where the community decides that the person’s invitation to edit the site has been rescinded. You can read David r/Hari’s ban discussion: there were fifteen users who supported a ban (myself included), and three who opposed the ban. David r is banned indefinitely from editing anything on Wikipedia. As we now have confirmation that David r is Johann Hari, Johann Hari is indefinitely banned from Wikipedia.1 This means that if he pops up with a new account and someone can confirm that the account is a “sockpuppet” used by Hari, that account will be blocked indefinitely on sight.

– Saying ‘what do you think?’ isn’t always enough to get a discussion going. Often people will say to themselves “er, I don’t think anything” and move on to answering emails. If you ask a specific questions, it might result in some specific answers. Rory asked people what advice they’d give a younger version of themselves – the title of an article he did for the site – and 25 comments later the thread is still going (my favourite tip: “Go into investment banking”).

But, out of the 23 papers with mobile sites, only three sell display advertising against their pages, according to a paper presented by researchers Francois Nel and Oscar Westlund to Cardiff University’s Future Of Journalism conference. Classified advertising, which was launched on to 11 of those sites in 2010, is now entirely absent. And, of five mobile/tablet apps available for the titles, only one, The Belfast Telegraph, charges anything.

Since the change, on-site dwell time has risen from two minutes to an average three minutes and 40 seconds. Although the Premier League itself remains in a court battle with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) over highlights posted by users, City this month started its own YouTube channel with CityTV’s behind-the-scenes videos. One, of new striker Samuel Nasri’s arrival at the club, clocked 100,000 views in 10 hours.

Online content providers scramble as reliance on TV drops – The Washington Post: In May, Nielsen announced that… http://t.co/fkaEvYoL

Would the real Salman Rushdie please tweet up? – News, People – The Independent: The speed and accuracy of the r… http://t.co/qFIeAihw

A link to that #hyperlocal research can be found here: http://t.co/ppDQvz3W #hyperlocalbrum

In May, Nielsen announced that for the first time in 20 years, the number of households that own television sets dropped, from 98.9 percent to 96.7 percent. Although the research firm said that some households shed televisions because of the recession — just as in the early ’90s — the company also noted that young people are growing more comfortable getting their television fix online.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple turn television watching completely on its head by building social into TV watching in an elegant and usable way. Things like seeing what your friends are watching, true integration with social networks, comment and discussion while watching programming (and no, it hasn't been done before–slapping a twitter app into an internet connected TV doesn't count as social enabled TV.)

What is the Web Index? The Web Index will be the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web and its impact on people in a large number of countries.  It will be a composite index, incorporating political, economic, social, and developmental indicators, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure.

The speed and accuracy of the reply was impressive, but many remained unconvinced. "[He] may yet be a very well informed pretender, Which would be even more fun…" said Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan Director at Human Rights Watch, and someone intimately familiar with Mr Rushdie's family in Pakistan.
Mr Hasan then posed an even trickier question, the answer to which is a possession of very few. "Ok. To convince me, tell me the late Nabeela's middle name," Mr Hasan demanded, referring to Mr Rushdie's sister, "and pet name and i will believe you totally." Within a moment, he replied, with correct answers to both questions.
The display picture, apparently taken by a webcam, suggests it is Mr Rushdie. It's too clear and close up to be from among the many pictures available publicly. The list of people he follows, from his son to Kylie Minogue, are all known to be intimates of Mr Rushdie.

RT @willperrin: @paulbradshaw see http://t.co/cKqwtWce for in character/fake ambridge site discussion #hyperlocalbrum

RT @tombarfield: @paulbradshaw credit big issue for @demotix – theme of recent @frontlineclub event, <30% of images in papers get cre …

Small-Town Gossip Moves to the Web, Anonymous and Vicious – NYTimes.com: http://t.co/K9uGp0aT

With WSJ Social, the Journal is purposely “navigating the content within the app around people,” Baratz told me, and making “every user an editor”; the app, in large part, she says, is about “elevating the role of people as curators of content.” The end result: “When you walk into the app, you have this very curated publication,” Baratz says — one that could, if done right, provide users with a nice mix of personalization and serendipity.

All the websites will include touch-screen enabled elements, for instance a slide show (also known as a rotator) on the homepage of Good Housekeeping, which is manipulate by a mouse click when accessed via P.C. but is touch operated when accessed via smartphones and tablets. Hearst is one of several media operations who have leapt to the possibilities provided by HTML5. The Financial Times and The Boston Globe have both launched HTML 5 versions of their site in order to get around Apple's mandatory 30% cut of all sales through their app store- and the fact that Adobe flash technology has long been banned from iPhones by Apple. What will Apple make of that?

Spending the day with MA Online Journalism students at the Birmingham Post & Mail's #hyperlocal day [pic]: http://t.co/mlrX5pRw

RT @dandavies23: RT @heatherAtaylor: beta version of the BBC's new homepage: http://t.co/4QmMdQSP Iwhat do you think? #BBChomepage > …

"Repeat after me: the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution" http://j.mp/nRzEYq

beta620 | Welcome to beta620: At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and d… http://t.co/uswp0rI6

Cooking the data – O'Reilly Radar: The first problem open data advocates run into is that of getting real info… http://t.co/uCdDCfrU

At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and designers are constantly striving to create new and innovative ways to present news and information and interact with our readers. Yet it’s often difficult to try out new inventions on the world’s largest newspaper Web site. That’s why we created beta620, a new home for experimental projects from Times developers — and a place for anyone to suggest and collaborate on new ideas and products.

Photo: (via Lies, damned lies and statistics » Blog Archive » If you condensed 3.4 billion Internet hours… http://t.co/FhmLhwDr

In fact, that’s nearly all there is to the site. You can upload up to 16 video files, add a title and soundtrack — select from available tracks or add your own — and then sit back and wait for an email to notify you that your mini movie is ready to be shared (in testing this took 20 to 30 minutes, depending on video file size).

Guest post by @jerryvermanen: Dutch regional newspapers launch data journalism project RegioHack http://t.co/A1W7BNDJ

The amount of pension money being invested in Guernsey by British ex-pats has been revealed for the first time.
A freedom of information request to tax authorities in the UK shows the island is the biggest player on the planet so far this year.
And it's all down to QROPS – which stands for Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes- a type of pension for people from the UK who are permanently moving overseas. Where the money goes, and how much it is all worth had been a bit of a mystery. But the lid has been lifted for the first time following a freedom of information request to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in the UK.

A COP did so much overtime last year he almost TREBLED his pay to £109,000, The Sun can reveal.The Metropolitan Police sergeant claimed an incredible £69,000 on top of his basic £40,000 salary.
Meanwhile, a Met constable clocked up £55,000 on top of a £30,000 wage. A Freedom of Information request revealed other forces are also paying out huge overtime sums.

What to include or exclude. “What should I include in the picture? What is important to tell the story?” Consider what to exclude. What is distracting? Telephone poles, signs, cars. Compose to keep them out of the picture. There are exceptions. You might want to show a specific location through photos of car license plates or road signs. In that case, these objects can be important.

Photo: (via Yoda pie chart) http://t.co/XuHs5icD

Video: Presenting Photography Threat Level Advisory (by jmcolberg) http://t.co/RaWTteEc

The solution is presented as a visually compelling ‘Concept Map’, depicting the salient Concepts and their relationships, which can be readily interrogated at either the Theme, Concept or Thesaurus level – with drill-down capability to the supporting text. There is an equivalent Concept Tag Cloud, various xml and csv export reports, an interactive log-book interface and an innovative new Insight Dashboard, specially designed to get immediate insight into the data and solution characteristics – at the press of a button!

This file documents awk, a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them.

RT @newsbrooke: RT @mandyldewaal: #APAI Announcement made on the launch of the Pan-African media network project: http://t.co/oRuSlhCu

But the nature of the surrounding community affected these decisions. The higher the voter turnout in an area around a plant, a proxy for residents’ political power, the greater the facility’s reported reductions in air carcinogens. Yet not all the reports of pollution reductions may be real. When you compare TRI reports of pollution releases with actual measures of nearby pollution, for heavily regulated chemicals such as lead and nitric acid it appears that firms are not accurately reporting their emissions.

The paper (full title: “Opening the Political Mind? The effects of self-affirmation and graphical information on factual misperceptions”) shares findings from three experiments that asked participants to assess sets of controversial data: on the U.S. troop-level surge in Iraq in 2007, the jobs market under the Obama administration, and global temperature change. From those, it draws two big conclusions about the psychology of misinformation: First, that external affirmations of “self-worth” — essentially, the buttressing of people’s sense of their own values and worldviews — can actually reduce misperceptions among the people who are most likely to resist information that runs counter to their already-held beliefs; and, second, that graphical presentation of corrections (and of controversial information in general) can be more powerful than their textual counterparts in terms of convincing people to amend their misperceptions.

Though these pro-state users present a worrying development, the overall trend is toward a diversity of views. As George Washington University professor and Middle East blogger Marc Lynch observed in 2007, the Arab blogosphere is "chipping away at the encrusted structures of the Arab punditocracy." Social networking sites serve a similar purpose while encouraging quick updates and communication. While blogging allows for reactive punditry, Twitter and Facebook allow for rapid-fire commentary. Their use during major events is often immediately corrective, providing context or amending errors in mainstream journalism.

Mark Nigrini shares the story of physicist Frank Benford, a man whose curiosity about a book inspired a bizarre discovery. Benford's Law, as it is now known, reveals a cosmic preference for certain numbers. Then Darrell D. Dorrell, a forensic accountant, describes how he uses Benford's Law to bust crooks.

This odd phenomenon is Benford's Law. If a set of values were truly random, each leading digit would appear about 11% of the time, but Benford's Law predicts a logarithmic distribution. It occurs so regularly that it is even used in fraudulent accounting detection. See the Wikipedia article for a more thorough discussion. This is a simple experiment to see how many large, publicly accessible datasets satisfy Benford’s Law.

For example, in every country in Asia-Pacific, aside from China and Japan, Facebook is the preferred social media channel. In China, video sharing is more popular, while in Japan, blog platforms and video sharing are more popular than mainstream social networks.

The latest seven to appear on the official list are: the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Latvia, Peru, South Korea, Sweden and Ukraine. The list is: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Peru, Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey and Ukraine.

Pinterest hasn't gotten a lot of press before, though. That could be because it's a visual bookmarking site used primarily by women (apparently) , and the male-dominated tech press is just less likely to notice success in that sector. It's a great looking service though and a lot of fun to use. There are certainly ways it could be improved, but it's clearly catching on.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society in Cambridge on Friday, Sir Martin said that social networks were "not the right context" for commercial advertising because they interrupted something that was supposed to be fluid and informal.

Molleindustria is an app developer who makes a line of controversial and political games. Some of its more well known games include McDonalds Videogame, Operation: Pedopriest, and Oiligarchy. It just recently announced and released its latest game, Phone Story. This particular game takes the player through the cruel world of smart phone production using a series of mini games depicting the mining of coltan from the Congo using child labor, the suicides in the Foxconn factories and, of course, e-waste disposal in third world countries.

The tools are sensitive enough so that even a few seconds of a song can trip them and the major content producers are very active in seeking this content out and getting it removed from the various video hosting sites, especially YouTube. Unfortunately, the aggressiveness of this enforcement combined with the sensitivity of some of the tools means that not all of the takedown notices are accurate or fair. So, as a video blogger, you need to be aware of your rights, make sure that you use content within the bounds of fair use and, if needed, stand up for your rights.

New York, September 14, 2011–U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks cited an Ethiopian journalist by name and referred to his unnamed government source, forcing the journalist to flee the country after police interrogated him over the source's identity, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. It is the first instance CPJ has confirmed in which a citation in one of the cables has caused direct repercussions for a journalist.

RT @VirginTrains: UPDATE: Delays between Milton Keynes Central and London Euston / Clapham Junction expected until 11:00 http://ow.ly/6x …

@HelenaBengtsson thanks for doing the interview – now edited and up at http://t.co/4S3VaYut

grep -lir "some text" * The -l switch outputs only the names of files in which the text occurs (instead of each line containing the text), the -i switch ignores the case, and the -r descends into subdirectories.

I imagine you're using the Text To Columns wizard, right ? If so, then, in the "Other" field, press your Left "Alt" key, and in the Numeric keyboard type 010 if that doesn't appear to work, try with the number 013 that should do what you need.

As with CSV files, at first it seems odd to be scraping Excel spreadsheets, when they’re already at least semi-structured data. Why would you do it?
The format of Excel files can varies a lot – how columns are arranged, where tables appear, what worksheets there are. There can be errors and inconsistencies that are easiest to fix in code. Sometimes you’ll find the data is there but not formatted in cells – entire rows in one cell, or data stored in notes.
We used an Excel scraper that pulls together 9 spreadsheets into one dataset for the brownfield sites map used by Channel 4 News.

Here's the news quiz the trainees did today by @petersands55 http://t.co/uQ5m6lqF 13.5 to beat.

Waiting for the 5th and final train of my journey – 1 delay against me, but 1 in my favour http://t.co/CQbx0Yx5

RT @philipjohn: Phone hacking: Met seek court order to reveal the Guardian's sources http://t.co/3nxrowSu via @guardian

RT @smfrogers: RT @gabrieldance: we are expanding the interactive team at Guardian U.S. so if you're interested in working with me … h …

Kate Crawford and I decided to sit down and interrogate some of the assumptions and biases embedded into the rhetoric surrounding “Big Data.” The resulting piece – “Six Provocations for Big Data” – offers a multi-discplinary social analysis of the phenomenon with the goal of sparking a conversation. This paper is intended to be presented as a keynote address at the Oxford Internet Institute’s 10th Anniversary “A Decade in Internet Time” Symposium.

This is the first incident I am aware of in Mexico in which social media users and bloggers, as opposed to journalists working for more conventional news organizations, have been targeted in this manner. One of the messages near the corpses read: This happened for snitching on Frontera Al Rojo Vivo (A Grupo Refroma internet forum created to both inform of and denounce cartel activity)

EIB data to ignore: http://t.co/yBPJxI9M

More data you can ignore: http://t.co/kRfEAFlY

Dataset for my PA trainees: http://t.co/KC3G8lGj #names #data

I do like this place – but have never had the cheese… (@ The Cheese Shop) http://t.co/aP3XztYE

RT @carolinebeavon: New project to examine how Wikipedia covers breaking news | CyberJournalist.net http://t.co/dglvE2oe

A fragment of rainbow in the middle of the sky http://t.co/oecBo3wg

Overdue – but welcome. RT @jayrosen_nyu: Johann Hari: A personal apology. http://t.co/EFp2WKyX

Off for my now annual 3 day sessions teaching data journalism to Telegraph trainees http://t.co/HCmST1qS

Tumblrize crossposts your published WordPress entries to Tumblr and Posterous. All you need is a Tumblr account. Changes you make to your WordPress po

Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool – it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos. But Tumblr can also be used to power a news website. That's exactly what ShortFormBlog does. Launched in January 2009 by Ernie Smith from Washington D.C., the site publishes about 30 news soundbites a day. ShortFormBlog is still a part-time project for Smith, who also works as a graphic designer at The Washington Post. He's hoping to turn the site into a full-time business. And I think he's onto something, certainly in terms of using a tool like Tumblr to change the way news is delivered and consumed. I interviewed Smith to find out more about his Tumblr-powered news service.

Photo: (via Is the 90-9-1 Rule for Online Community Engagement Dead? [Data] | CustomerThink) http://t.co/kRCWpkp

NHS Comparators is a national resource and is part of the Secondary Uses Service (SUS), jointly delivered by the NHS Information Centre and NHS Connecting for Health. It provides comparator data for NHS commissioning and provider organisations, enabling users to investigate aspects of local activity, costs and outcomes. It is designed to be supplemented by information available in local systems.

Interesting investigation into pharmacies vs dispensaries on R4's You & Yours. Shame there's no textual info online http://t.co/DU3sQjH

UBM’s ABC exit shows how publishers are moving from measuring users to building relationships | TheMediaBriefing… http://t.co/6yA3C0o

The publication of the first audited circulation figures for digital magazine sales did little to make the case that online subscriptions are the future.  Only two magazines have sold more than 1,000 subscriptions – Men’s Health and Hello!  And neither of them had sold enough to give much cheer to those who mourn the forests of trees needed to feed the UK’s magazine habit.

So the news mattered. But so did job advertising. In research, many readers said they read the news before the jobs, or indeed only read only the jobs. So it seemed to me as the journalists returned to work, that it was the entire package that made for successful publishing.

In what should have very loud alarm bells ringing for media metrics bodies and publishers that put faith in them, Built Environment will now audited by receive data from Pricewaterhousecooper (PWC), in a system similar to the Average Daily Global Audience measure that FT.com uses (please note the helpful clarifying comment from Stuart at the BPA below – PWC is technically not auditing anyone). Unlike the ABC, which splits online and print into different sections, the PWC's methods measures both print and online and does not count duplicates (someone who reads the title online and in print in the same day).

Posted yesterday: The New Online Journalists #11: Jack Dearlove http://t.co/yUcuCIa

RT @psychemedia: Wondering if any other local journalism folk have done mapping stories around boundary changes? http://t.co/3QMpG6U /vi …

BuzzData | Blog, BuzzData star: James McKinney: McKinney recalls making the same type of list last year, but the… http://t.co/EU5Z7yr

McKinney recalls making the same type of list last year, but the experience was different: “I had done something similar for the Open Government Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation a year ago, but we were using Google Spreadsheets at the time,” he says. “Google Spreadsheets’ strength is real-time document collaboration, but it’s weak on other social aspects. For example, if you close the spreadsheet, you lose your chat history.
“Although BuzzData is only in beta, already the conversation sidebar acts as a useful backchannel between collaborators and the overview page is a convenient opportunity to introduce editors to formatting guidelines and design decisions.”

what’s more, it happened over the course of four or five hours, with a couple of technology/knowledge transfers along the way, as well as evolution in the way both news agencies communicated the information compared to the way the Boundary Commission released it.

News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites – NYTimes.com: Part of the problem is the result of a fundamental shi… http://t.co/4Lafwzc

“What we’re doing is detecting the user’s screen size when they enter the site and giving them the right layout,” said Jeff Moriarty, the Globe’s vice president of digital products. “It responds on a real-time basis, so if you flip your iPad from vertical to landscape, it will change.”
There are six possible layouts depending on the device’s screen size: a simple one-column page for phones, more columns and complexity for 5- to 7-inch tablets and 10-inch iPads (adjusting for horizontal or vertical orientation), and a large version for laptop or desktop browsers.

The layout of BostonGlobe.com changes when an iPad user rotates the device from vertical to horizontal view.The site also detects the capabilities of the device, so a smartphone or tablet user can swipe her way through a photo gallery or a featured content carousel.

English is one of those 'let's just go do it' publishers who has adopted the tablet platform early on and is continuing to experiment. Tablazine's first magazine, Hoodgrown, has been written about several times on this site, and has garnered a bit of well deserved press. But for that first magazine, English chose to work with Alligator Digital Magazines, the Los Angeles-based company he first read about on this site. For his newest magazine, English is doing more of the work on his own and is experimenting with a different platform, Pugpig.

Part of the problem is the result of a fundamental shift in Web behavior. Media stalwarts erected a frame around the Web and organized, and sometimes produced, content. Now the frame around content is the Web browser itself, and consumers do their own programming and are more inclined to see news consumption as a kind of voting, selecting smaller brands that reflect their sensibilities.

Nearly a third of crown court hearings in the East of England which do not go ahead as planned are adjourned due to legal teams not being ready on the day of the trial, the BBC can reveal.
A BBC Freedom of Information request found that the percentage of trials which fail to go ahead varies widely.
In Northamptonshire 3.3% of trials did not go ahead, while in Hertfordshire the figure was 16.6%.
In the East 30.6% of these did not go ahead due to legal teams issues.

Judge Fiona Henderson ordered Camden Council to comply with a Freedom of Information request from the Advisory Service for Squatters to reveal the list of empty council-managed and private homes in the borough.She was quoted by the Daily Telegraph as saying publication would "bring buildings back into use sooner and the housing needs of additional people would be met".

RT @jamescuff: Did you see the iPhone auto-correct short film I made for The Sunday Times? http://t.co/XEiVOmC

This iPhone auto-correct love song is ducking brilliant http://t.co/2MaZG8H

Journalists often want to create a thematic web maps, in which geographic areas are filled in with color/shade according to data values, for example:http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/census-2010/Thanks to Google Fusion Tables, creating basic thematic maps and embedding them on a web page is now easy. 

The Boundary Commission for England refused to give us this map – so we've made it ourselves using the raw data showing which wards would sit in which new constituency. What do you think?

@newsbrooke the MEN have managed to map one constituency http://t.co/oCGgos4 cc/@pdgallagher

Spool Is Instapaper On Steroids – TechCrunch: But with Spool, you don’t have to think about these sorts of thing… http://t.co/FT7EfJ8

But with Spool, you don’t have to think about these sorts of things. Any Internet content, including audio, video and text, can be made available for immediate, offline viewing on mobile, simply by using the Spool app, browser add-on or bookmarklet. And because Spool is intelligent, it knows what part of a webpage to save, and what part to discard.

An easier way to think about it may be as YouTube/Justin.tv mixed with The Gong Show. Or if you’re under 30, maybe think of it as Turntable.fm for live video. Participants go live with either a musical performance or a talk and they’re voted on in realtime. Thumbs-up votes buys the person more time, thumbs-down means they’ll soon be shoved off the stage.

RT @carolinebeavon: How to Focus | Visual.ly http://t.co/4SZmC6v

RT @kwesth: Fine collection of data gathering and data processing tools for social media http://t.co/lLaBvmN #foj11

Emap picks data specialist as chief executive – Brand Republic News: http://t.co/V4DaKx7

It’s clear from the data that companies in the Balanced category achieve the best results overall. They generate 20% fewer clicks per post than Curators, but their conversion rate is 10X higher. I’ll take that trade any day.

"Estates Gazette  and Capita Symonds  have joined forces to produce the first-ever augmented reality edition of Estates Gazette. The Capita Symonds advertisements in the print edition on 3 September 2011 can be viewed using the CS AR App downloaded to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Read more

The average UK PR professional is paid £48,247 pa, nearly twice the average salary for the UK workforce as a whole, according to PR Week.
In 2010, the average salary for those in 'all service industries' was £25,855.
According to the survey, press officers average £28,384; senior account mangers £36,514; media managers £39,091; head of comms/external affairs £55,203; PR directors £55,516; chief executives/mds £60,925; and comms directors £83,191.

The Social Sidekick features “most liked/tweeted” content from Condé‘s mag sites W, Glamour, Self, Teen Vogue, Lucky and the Style.com. The bar kind of hovers over an area on the lower part of a site’s screen and scrolls down when a user moves down the page, along with a plus/minus sign allowing viewers to close or expand it. If you click to expand the bar, it then shows multiple panes that each feature a single title’s article links with Gucci content below.

Since we last checked in with Homicide Watch D.C., Laura Amico has continued to make good on her site’s promise: Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case. Amico, a former newspaper reporter, has indexed the victims, suspects, and details of every murder committed in Washington, D.C., since September 2010, attempting to collect personal stories along the way.

High Court clinical negligence claim against Dept of Health for decades of disability caused by false claims of harmlessness of dental amalgam. Come to hearing 6th October 2011 at RCJ in London

This paper examines the intersection of journalism and open-source software, in the context of the ongoing tension between professional control and open participation in digital media. Through interviews with key winners of the Knight News Challenge innovation contest, this article explores how open source, as a technological framework and a socio-cultural ethic, serves to legitimize and facilitate participation in journalism. News innovators are found to see journalism as an open-source practice to be shared, rather than a proprietary profession to be protected—and news not as a professional product alone, so much as a process of iterative, collaborative de-bugging. The implications of this shift are discussed in light of journalism’s changing occupational boundaries.

Meanwhile, from a current student: RT @Andy_Watt: A visualisation of this morning's game. http://t.co/OhyzmuC

RT @cward1e: Extremely well deserved RT @smfrogers Rogers is 'internet journalist of the year' http://t.co/bPIezX5

New #sftw post: How to use the CableSearch API to quickly reference names against #Wikileaks #cables (SFTW): http://t.co/BCPsC65

This week’s issue of NME features a unique six-digit code printed on the cover, which can be used online to unlock exclusive content and giveaways.

This week NME Extra celebrates 20 years of ‘Nevermind’, the album that changed rock music forever. Behind the unique code readers can find:

• A classic NME interview with Nirvana from 1991

• A video feature with Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Hurts discussing their favourite ‘Nevermind’ tracks

• A Nirvana photo gallery

• And a competition to win rare ‘Nevermind’ artwork and merchandise

NME publishing director Paul Cheal (pictured) says: "NME was the first music magazine in the UK to use QR codes so that our readers could capitalise on additional digital content for their smartphones. This latest innovation brings additional features, photography and video content direct to our readers' desktops."

This app is the first to be produced by Dennis’ newly created in-house mobile app development team, Dennis Media Factory. The team features iOS and Android specialists, allowing Dennis to launch the new Profanisaurus app simultaneously on iPhone/iPod touch and Android phones. A version for Symbian powered Nokia phones will follow shortly afterwards, developed by Future Platforms, known for their work on this year’s Official Glastonbury app.

Mike Newcombe, director of Mobile Sales at IPC, says: “This partnership further establishes P&G's credentials in being one of the first to invest and reap the rewards of the ever growing mobile medium with the product range perfectly complimenting IPC's market leading female mobile user base.

“With 30 sites already live and up to 15% of digital traffic coming organically via mobile, it's evident there is a clear and present demand for our user base to have instant access to their favourite brands across multiple platforms.”

[The Transparency Register] provides citizens with a direct and single access to information about who is engaged in activities aiming at influencing the EU decision making process, which interests are being pursued and what level of resources are invested in these activities.

China struggles to tame microblogging masses – Gadgets & Tech, Life & Style – The Independent: "This is where pu… http://t.co/A3nWUKQ

"This is where public opinion is being formed," said Peking University journalism professor Hu Yong. Hu said the decision by authorities in the booming east coast city of Dalian to relocate a controversial chemical plant owed much to a largely middle class public protest one Sunday in August that had its origins in weibo posts. "The Dalian party secretary came out and gave a speech promising to shut the chemical plant," he said. "We seldom see this. This is significant."

Such data has always been valuable. However, the internet revolution is transforming it into a cashable proposition. The online genealogy market grew from nothing to millions a year, thanks to the availability of family records online. The worldwide satnav market, based on free data from the US government’s GPS system, is worth well over $100bn year, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

Freedom of Information requests are slow, tedious, and as a means of gathering information roughly equal in efficiency to the game Battleships. You fire off a formal request, wait a month for a reply telling you your request was rubbish and off-target, move two squares to the left and fire again, and repeat until you get what you were after, or you've given up, or you've died of old age. Apply this to research data and there's a good chance that even if it's available it may be unintelligible, or in a proprietary format, or undocumented.

There's a unique anti-business attitude in Europe in relation to FoI. Prof James Boyle of Duke University Law School told me: "European attitudes towards private commercialisation actually work against the idea of openness. In the US if the government hands out weather data for free and people make a ton of money off the back of it, everyone says, 'Great! it's good for the economy, good for us, good for the company' … In Britain there's a sense that the company has got something for free and now they're making money out of it. 'How terrible! They're free-riding.' They don't see the overall economic benefit that comes from sharing information."

We asked government departments for details of how much they had spent on proprietary software over the past year, and how much open source software they had acquired.
The responses have been dribbling in for months now (available as a Google doc, an Excel spreadsheet or as separate .csv files below), and they've varied from detailed accounts of software and expenditure, to refusals to provide any information on the grounds that it would cost too much.

In June the commissioner’s office said the university’s reason for refusing to hand over the information, because the request was considered “vexatious”, was not a correct reason and ordered it to issue another response.

A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice found that in 2005, 1,363 people were convicted while in 2010, it was 2,135.

BBC News – Victory for Cliff's law: What is surprising about this is that ministers have also approved the findi… http://t.co/wNOas7L

What is surprising about this is that ministers have also approved the findings of the Hargreaves Review on copyright.
Its central message was that the copyright regime should be tidied up, and enforced where possible, but that its reach should not be extended.
All those music industry bodies which have campaigned so long for this are keeping their powder dry tonight, waiting for the Council of Ministers to rubber-stamp the decision before they say anything.

According to the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center’s report “Egypt from Tahrir to Transition,” the uprisings in Egypt were “not a Facebook revolution.” While media sources have widely credited online activists for igniting the recent uprisings, the report concludes that the role of social media as a key factor in mobilizing millions is likely overstated. According to the center’s research, based on a nationally representative survey of about 1,000 respondents in Egypt, only 8 percent said that they relied on Facebook and Twitter to get news on the protests. Some 81 percent named Egyptian state TV as their source for news, 63 percent named Al Jazeera.

Fadi Salem of the Dubai School of Government is equally convinced that regional satellite television had an “influential role” in toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. He doubts, however, that television would have been equally influential without videos from YouTube and information from Twitter and Facebook.

Photo: How big is your New Optimism? This big apparently. (via Egypt From Tahrir to Transition) http://t.co/Ok0N2j6

The BBC is radically rewriting its approach to the digital world, trimming down its sprawling network of websites to 10 streamlined 'products', an umbrella term which includes everything from BBC radio to the iPlayer. Responsible for Homepage, Search, News, Sport, Weather, CBBC, CBeebies, Knowledge and Learning and 2012 Olympics coverage, Phil Fearnley explains how the BBC is reaching out to audiences across different platforms under its new approach.

Olapic has a Facebook Application that lets media organizations show photos uploaded by their Facebook community to crowdsourced galleries. Going to use this as an example for my class this fall as a useful tool.

This makes crowdsourcing using your Facebook Pages much easier. Here's the link to the app: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=168450899839635 Also, here's an example of what it looks like on New York Daily News: http://on.fb.me/qit75o

Faveous is a fairly new entrant into the field, and is very like Trunkly, but the choice is slightly wider in my opinion. Sources are very similar, but you can also filter by all media, images, videos, music and documents. One particularly nice feature is the ability to save your Twitter favourites as well however; it can also delete them afterwards if you wish. There's little to choose between both systems, but since it only takes a few moments to set up, why not use both?

Did you see downloading and reading newspapers and magazines in there at number five? So only slightly more than half of the people who regularly use the internet read online news publications of some description in the last three months.
To put this in context, 57 percent of internet users and 91 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds used social networking sites in the same period. The people who are soon going to be your ad manager’s target audience already spend more time talking to friends and sharing photographs then perhaps they ever will reading newspapers or magazines online.

Photo: (via Why it’s dangerous to over-estimate how digital your audience is | TheMediaBriefing) http://t.co/sowqeqX

Since the 1980s, the US has aggressively threatened trade sanctions against countries who don’t give American companies sufficiently large competitive advantages — this is described in detail in the book Information Feudalism about the origins of the TRIPs agreement and WTO, for those interested in gory details. In practice, it works like this: industry associations in the US go to the Trade Representatives, who go to the myriad offices dealing with Foreign Policy, who go to the embassies, who talk to national governments (including the Swedish one) and demand changes to national law to benefit American corporations.

Video: Tips on investigating people and businesses http://t.co/3i4LGiQ

With this, HuffPost joins a surge of news organizations that are tapping into their staff expertise and troves of published material for relatively quick and inexpensive e-books. A few examples:

The Boston Globe released a trio on the life of fugitive gangster Whitey Bulger.
The New Yorker recently collected post-9/11 articles for its first e-book.
The New York Times assembled an e-book on WikiLeaks called “Open Secrets.”

A People’s History of the Great Recession tells personal stories of economic hardship brought on by the recession.
The fact that The Huffington Post is among these pioneers in repurposing its content for e-books is especially significant for the organization’s reputation, Delaney told me. “It shows that Huffington Post is doing real reporting. People always say, ‘It’s aggregation and unpaid bloggers,’ but it’s not. It’s more than that.”

"State Governor Jay Nixon recently signed Senate Bill 54, making it illegal for students and teachers to be friends online as of later this month. Now, a Missouri teachers group is fighting the state's new law that prohibits them from being Facebook friends with their students by filing a lawsuit. From the article: 'The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) filed a lawsuit on Friday, challenging a new law. MSTA is specifically asking the Circuit Court of Cole County to determine the constitutionality of the law’s social media portion.'"

An inquiry by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is examining "alleged corruption and abuse of power" in police relationships with the media, while Elizabeth Filkin, the former parliamentary commissioner for standards, intends to draw up a framework for how police officers handle their relationships with reporters.

The inquiries are both considering whether communication between police officers should be officially monitored and recorded by a press officer.

Three years ago, a case against Sally Murrer, a reporter on the Milton Keynes Citizen, and a former Thames Valley police detective Mark Kearney was thrown out. Kearney had been accused of leaking information to her.

RT @saulcozens: OSS Sentiment Analysis front-end for R http://t.co/perC0IP – must read more /ht @monkchips @philsheard

Photo: You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention? (via… http://t.co/7RunTCj

One of the best features in ArtBabble is that each section (Series, Channel, Artist) has its own RSS feed, so you can subscribe to video content in a very granular way. It also features all of the usual social touches, such as ratings, comments and tag clouds. ArtBabble is an elegantly designed site with a lot of compelling content in it. Perhaps the biggest lesson here for other organizations is that the video content on ArtBabble comes from dozens of art museums, so it is varied and regularly updated. It's not always possible to collaborate with others on content, but for a social site it's always a plus.

The first is a database of more than 1,100 defendants who have appeared in court charged with riot-related offences. The list, compiled with the assistance of the Ministry of Justice, consists of more than 70% of those who have appeared in magistrate and crown courts. Many will be given the opportunity to take part in the research study in the coming weeks. The second database contains 2.5m riot-related tweets. Executives at Twitter's headquarters in California authorised the collation of tweets, pooled from hashtags relating to the riots and their aftermath, so they could form part of the study. A spokeman for the company said: "Twitter provided publicly available information that is accessible to researchers and others via its API."

“CMS – the software UX forgot” – Karen McGrane at Content Strategy Forum 2011: If you were an eCommerce operatio… http://t.co/k63jI8i

If you were an eCommerce operation, you would be rigorously trying to remove the obstacles to conversion on the front-end of your website, because that makes you money. So if you you are a content creation business, why wouldn’t you apply the same methodology to your workflow, and eliminate the points of pain that introduce inefficiency in your business? Usability isn’t about fonts, she said, it is about workflow
We’ve done a poor job, she said, of convincing people of the real benefits of structured content over bespoke digital layout. She compared Condé Nast, who have tripled their workload by needing one print and two bespoke iPad layouts of every article, to NPR who have built an API that makes “Create once, publish everywhere” a reality. A graph she showed of the sales of Glamour suggested that investment in bespoke layouts was sometimes selling less than 3,000 copies of an app – a shockingly poor return on investment.

National Readership statistics, based on a rolling programme of 36,000 interviews every year, add a lot more bells and whistles, including breakdowns between male and female readers. And if there's one area of readership that has come to define resilience and, in some cases, even growth, then it's the challenge of recruiting women.
Look at the Mail on Sunday's You magazine in the latest July 2010 to June 2011 release: 2,202,000 women against 1,561,000 men. These are vital counterweights to all that Premiership football, the preserve of young men, or family money pull-outs which men dominate 3:2. Look at the Sunday Telegraph's Stella, with 534,000 women to 323,000 men in a paper where men dominate by more than 50,000, or the Guardian Weekend, 623,000 women to 529,000 men. Look, for that matter, at Observer readership – 605,000 men and 535,000 women overall, but a far narrower 466,000 men against 460,000 women in magazine terms – and 544,000 women to 424,000 men on Food Monthly days.

First and foremost, the concept of an “editor” at TechCrunch is essentially just a title and nothing more. Generally speaking, neither Mike nor Erick (TC’s two “co-editors”) are overlords that dictate what everyone else covers. With a few exceptions (mainly for newer writers), no one person even reads posts by any other author before they are posted. Traditional journalists may be appalled to learn this. But this is a big key of why TechCrunch kicks their ass in tech coverage. We’re fast and furious in ways they can’t be, because they’re adhering to the old rules. Are there benefits to those old rules? Sure. But in my opinion, the benefits of the way we work far outweighs the benefits of the way they work.

Infographic: gathering data: a flow chart for data journalists http://t.co/hGoIFcr

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Video: I wasted many hours playing this: The Boss (by UlvYngling) http://t.co/Tt1Muxv

Nominet, the registrar that handles .uk domains, is moving ahead with proposed rules (PDF) that could allow law enforcement agencies to request a domain be shut down without a court order.The registrar launched the process in response to a request from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Currently Nominet’s rules don’t allow for domains to be shut down for criminal reasons, though in the past it has blocked domains at the request of law enforcement agencies on the pretext that they provided false contact details.Limited applicationSuspension of a domain will not require a court order but should be limited to circumstances where necessary “to prevent serious and immediate consumer harm”, according to Nominet.

Gerardo Buganza, the interior secretary for Veracruz state in Mexico, said it could very well be the “Twitter terrorism” caused by two people who allegedly spread false reports of gunmen attacking schools and kidnapping children. Those reports caused such panic when parents scrambled around the city to get to their children that there were dozens of car accidents and emergency phone lines were jammed.The two people, a private school teacher and a radio presenter, now face 30 years in prison for charges under terrorism laws.

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RT @LocGovLawyer When can an authority refuse under Environmental Information Regulations to disclose legal advice http://t.co/d8Kk1BA #eir

RT @silviacobo: Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment #media http://j.mp/qDPbHk

Data journalism bootcamp (SQL) with David Donald http://t.co/6DCkb0u

I couldn’t contain myself (other more pressing things to do, but…), so I just took a quick time out and a coffee to put together a quick and dirty R function that will let me run queries over Google spreadsheet data sources and essentially treat them as database tables (e.g. Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database with the Google Visualisation API Query Language).

Incredible situation where EU citizens are not allowed to know what position their governments are adopting re:… http://t.co/aSzTXXw
The EU is reforming its rules on access to documents and Access Info wanted to know what position each government was taking on the reform. We asked the Council of the EU on 3 December 2008, and it responded on 17 December. The Council granted Access Info partial access to the documents requested: we were provided with the summary of the discussions but without the names of the countries which had been for or against any particular amendment.

The most satisfying part of this #datajournalism by @cityjournalism grad @joedyke is how transparent it is http://t.co/hnfcClD

My belief is that the second chart is a more accurate comparison to the 90-9-1 rule since all users have to be doing some activity to account for the 100% of the sample. So based on the data in that chart, there are a few interesting things we can learn:
All but one online community had more Commenters than the 9% the rule suggests. So, people seem to be more open to editing and commenting on existing information.All sites were higher in Creators than the 1% the rule maintains. One as high as 17%! With more and more people getting comfortable with social networking sites, perhaps people are more comfortable in expressing their opinions.The averages for each area are far higher than the rule suggests. (Well, other than Lurkers, but that is a good thing!)So, maybe we don’t need to be so dire about how many people engage in your online community. Based on this data I would suggest a new rule (with a little rounding):
The 70-20-10 Rule of Community Participation

However, as PaidContent reports, during the last year 10% of new digital subscriptions to the F.T. were taken out on iPad, so the fact that the newspaper's application will no longer appear in the App store may be something of a blow to the company.
The publication must convince users to subscribe to the HTML5 application, which simply isn't as convenient has having an application in iTunes, where the many potential subscribers will already have an established account that would allow them to pay and download in seconds.  

Although First Amendment jurisprudence is not always consistent with the approach of the English or European Courts, the principles set out in this case are ones which appear to be consistent with the Convention's approach. The importance of the right to gather information for the purposes of promoting public debate has been repeatedly recognised by the Strasbourg court and strongly suggests that there is a fundamental right to take photographs of the activities of public officials – particularly police officers.

Very impressed with this first piece of video from #MAOnlineJournalism student @franzibaehrle http://t.co/6GdXhcsz

@alexwoodcreates here you go: http://t.co/avCefcjQ #cityOJ

A Storify of what #Android phones people recommended on Twitter http://t.co/y8yO726q

There's a list of special #postcodes on Wikipedia: http://t.co/k2o0H39a (including many media orgs)

Quite a few tweets about @Delicious deleting accounts: http://t.co/9ruRrFmK

RT @kiyanwang: Interesting … “@newsycombinator: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers http://j.mp/psLhvU”

Great anecdote about metrics in this piece http://t.co/wBMcxkJR

Photo: myjournonotes: http://t.co/3ES3iBTe

A post I wrote @helpmeinvestig8: Investigating bribery: 5 things to look for http://t.co/ieawCZ2y

Tips on starting to use twitter as a journalism student from @AndrewStuart: http://t.co/yuTHhOds #cityOJ

RT @billt: RT @newsbrooke: Would you pass a social network background check? http://t.co/4k3ABthQ (no chance for me, then)

RT @hackshackersbhx: Hacks & Hackers event in Liverpool on data journalism and the Olympics http://t.co/XebEl86X

RT @jonhickman: Here's your future: trendspotting by my 3rd years #B225studio http://t.co/7iCwbTte

RT @CBM: Did The New York Times just lay off About.com’s entire editorial team? http://t.co/vc9eytLM

RT @samuelcharron: RT @nicolaskb: How good are your statistical numeracy skills? Take the #test! http://j.mp/n3y7f6 #ddj #statistics

.@helenlawson7 here are 50 RSS feeds to get you started – in easy to use Google Reader Bundles http://t.co/7kPMjHXf #cityOJ

Interesting use of #Tumblr to blog class notes RT @t30d0ra: An experiment: http://t.co/ZCQAZ0Mv #cityhacks #cityoj any feedback welcome

RT @psmith: This is what a stack looks like on the new Delicious http://t.co/qRWWLizU #CityOJ

Poll: Let's put it to a vote: which of the following would you recommend to a student journalist? http://t.co/T5W7GNZd #android

Some really useful comments on the blog post: http://t.co/s99ubjVF #android

RT @adders: Integrated newsrooms must remember print and digital are different products http://j.mp/mSKqXs <— so hard to achieve, t …

Do you use an Android phone, and if so why would you recommend that model for journalists? (A student asked me… http://t.co/KJ9txrHt

Trust #delicious to relaunch the evening after I do a #cityOJ lecture on the old version http://t.co/M4mrL6bc

The BBC wants to be your online TiVo | Online Video News: The list also contains links to episodes available onl… http://t.co/035ZTfE7

The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.

The list also contains links to episodes available online, and shows can be tracked even when on hiatus. The whole thing utilizes a very simplified UI, looking more like the unfinished work of a startup than something that a seasoned broadcaster would launch. The BBC’s R&D department explained in a blog post that the site is part of an effort to explore “how people remember programmes and how best to help them do that.”

10 inspiring accounts to follow on #Instagram

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When you create your video, there are only three parts that you can control: the Title, Description, and the video’s Tags. These are all vital for your video to be seen and make sure that they’re of the best standard, keyword AND quality wise. These are factors you have control over, but there’s other things you can’t change, such as the amount of views, the amount of likes, and the comments. The basic rule of thumb is the more uncontrolled factors the better, although there are a few variables, which will be explained shortly.

RT @edyong209: RT @ferrisjabr Hacker/writer Nik Cubrilovic says "Even if you are logged out, Facebook can track every page you visit" ht …

Liking the blog of #cityOJ student @ericabuist http://t.co/684eVN3W

RT @Rosental: Journalist is decapitated in Mexico, body left w/ threat against use of social media; press quiet about it http://t.co/m0w …

Photo: (via The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out – Peter Kafka – Social – AllThingsD) http://t.co/T2OjDQdX

New! (sort of) On the blog: A network infrastructure for journalists online http://t.co/vOgWVDiX

RT @t30d0ra: My notebook half-way through the lecture #cityoj http://t.co/UumPOmyU

More on @fieldproducer & @acarvin here http://t.co/tqZuOMyI #cityOJ

#cityoj this week's special guest @fieldproducer http://t.co/IbTSTmH8

My ritual coffee en route to the first class @cityjournalism (@ Starbucks) http://t.co/X2QAAoKg

Pew Internet: Diving Into How We Access Local News Search Engine Land: The study also found that “for the 79%… http://t.co/5Wthpr0V

A UBM digital exec writes: Why we moved to the future of media measurement: http://t.co/OZdofVhv

If “he said, she said” journalism is irretrievably lame, what’s better? » Pressthink: Voice of San Diego: New Re… http://t.co/QgXSXqPo

How Do You Detect B.S. On Social Networks? « 10,000 Words: The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Er… http://t.co/pMXJbeKa

RT @t30d0ra: To all fellow interactives @cityjournalism: here's a #infographic re: social media jobs http://t.co/JieEpkoZ by @mashable

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting wants to fill that gap with a newly released social media handbook for stations, which is hosted at the National Center for Media Engagement website. CPB commissioned the marketing firm iStrategy Labs to write a guide that targets a broad audience: not just the stations who need guidance, but the stations who still need convincing of social media’s value.

Even backed by corporate owner LOGO (which is in turn owned by Viacom), the long-standing news site 365gay.com will shut down on Sept. 30. As editor Jennifer Vanasco noted, “LOGO has shifted its online strategy and so the site is closing.”Gay news blog Bilerico let go of its managing editor and is down to a single employee running the show.Queerty, a site that was one of the top 50 political blogs on Technorati, shut down for weeks this April after its business development partner decided that gay niche blogging was unprofitable. It has since been unable to truly recover.Pam’s House Blend, a site that also broke into the ranks of the top 50 political blogs on Technorati every odd year or so had to transition from an independent site to a larger, corporate progressive site this year.

In the role of war correspondent ('warco') Jesse DeMarco, the player must capture battle footage and edit together a news story, while trying to make it out alive.
All footage is taken from the proof of concept playable developed in UDK – all in game, barring the final news story which would be edited together by the player from the war footage they've captured.

Video: Warco July 2011 (by DefiantDevelopment) http://t.co/CP014NXM

CryptDB – A PostGres modification that stores data in a securely encrypted way, but still allows efficient queries. I love the idea, can't wait to see the software.

If you’re anything like me, in these hectic times of digital distractions, you can scarcely devote time to read anything longer than 140 characters, much less write a 750-word post critiquing the latest album. Do we any longer have time to devote to indulging our passions in their respective corners of the internet? Are we content merely to fire our briefest of thoughts out in to the ether, to whomever may be following us? To real-world friends and our professional peers who may not care to engage on the topic? In social media, we have become expressive, performative, but not necessarily conversational.

AVE” (ABC Visualisation Editor). As I envision it, this may very well do for timelines what Soundslides did for audio slideshows. Read my interview with Sam Doust, Creative Director of Strategic Development at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, to learn more about this tool and when you can expect to test it out for yourself

Voice of San Diego: New Reporter Guidelines. We only do something if we can do it better than anyone or if no one else is doing it. * We must add value. We must be unique. Three things to remember for each story: * Context * Authority * Not just what is happening, but what it means There is no such thing as objectivity. * There is such thing as fairness. * But everyone sees everything through their own filter. Acknowledge that, let it liberate you. Let it regulate you.

Michelle showed the audience how to make an interactive chart that graphs crime data using Google Chart Tools. She posted a full tutorial on her website and the downloadable source code for the visualization. Here are the key links you need to build a chart yourself:

The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Error‘s Craig Silverman held a session at the Online News Association Conference here on Friday afternoon with the goal of preventing the participants from falling into a trap. (Slides from the presentation are available here.)

Love the fact that there's a Lego wiki called… Brickipedia http://t.co/gHBWShWe

EC VP Kroes On Standardization and Open Data / News / News / Home – ePSIplus – Public Sector Information: In her… http://t.co/zDJjX5jb

In her speech she presented the progress made towards a new legal framework for European Standardisation, and interoperability. Saying that "standards are indispensable for openness, freedom and choice", she said that in the coming years the focus of work will be to make the proposed legal framework become law as soon as possible. Furthermore also the new European Interoperability Framework has been created that will help create more and better interoperability, such as for cross-border public services in Europe.

RT @jasonhall: Launching a new thing on 5th October and I need your support. Come along for fun night out and find out more > http:// …

MSD, it seems, have a contract with the NHS to supply the drug. We’ve been told that part of that contract is a guarantee of supply. That has simply failed. Someone on Twitter told me they’d had a similar experience a while ago – it turned out the manufacturer was diverting all supplies to Europe, where they sell for a higher price. Is that what is happening here?

New post: New #Facebook news apps: bring the news to your users, or invite users to your news? http://t.co/9qpLSduy

"As we worked with different news organisations there were two camps: people that wanted to bring the social experience onto their sites, like Yahoo [News] and the Independent; and those that wanted the social news experience on Facebook, like Guardian, the Washington Post and the Daily," director of Facebook's platform partnerships Christian Hernandez told Journalism.co.uk.

@Colbear a photo of Um Bongo in the Congo, that is http://t.co/1dxzYxu4

@Colbear here's the footnote reference: http://t.co/qbblywdl I particularly like the footnote with a link to a blog of someone's photo of it

RT @lakey: Wikipedia: "It was believed it was unlikely that Um Bongo is drunk in the Republic of the Congo" http://t.co/yE4hCTTk

Data journalism survey: a mixed picture (guest post for the Data Driven Journalism site):… http://t.co/kupqJdcO

For the last few months, I've been using the act as a benchmarking tool, finding out how many campaign actions different Whitehall departments have received over the last 12 months and publishing them on my thoughtful campaigner blog. But the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' (NCVO) guide, Your Right to Know, gives examples of charities using it for other purposes:

• Bliss, a neo-natal charity used it for research purposes to gain access to information for local authorities, which was then collated into a policy report.

• The Campaign Against the Arms Trade used it to highlight the activities of the UK government overseas and access key documents that have helped to further inform its campaigning work.

• Campaign for Clean Air in London used the environmental information regulations to get information about deaths due to poor air quality in London which led to significant media coverage.

Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates.
The disclosure – made in data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act – will raise fresh fears over the Coalition’s controversial higher education reforms.

Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, said: "These extraordinary exchanges shed further light on the murky dealings around Michael Gove. We already know that Dominic Cummings lobbied for cash to be given to the New Schools Network 'without delay', an organisation he went on to work for. We now learn that on arrival he sought to implement a restrictive and secretive approach to dealing with parliamentary enquiries.

"It would seem that Dominic Cummings holds an arrogant disregard for government processes and accountability to parliament. I have asked the cabinet secretary to investigate the actions of Dominic Cummings and other advisers to Michael Gove."

New post: Scraperwiki now makes it easier to ask questions of data… http://t.co/ZsqTFdih

RT @johnpopham: Libraries & universities left fuming as evidence BPI & MPA pushed to effectively outlaw open Wi-Fi http://t.co/QsPLGxU0 …

So we thought it was high time to ask the SEOs who work on some of the world’s top news sites including NYTimes, CNN, HuffingtonPost, ABC News, ESPN and more to give up the goods. The results of the survey are listed on the left-hand nav of the site.

RT @newsbrooke: RT @PaulLewis: This'll make reporting future riots *much* more dangerous > BBC, ITN and Sky News give riot foo… (cont …

MediaShift Idea Lab . PANDA Survey Shows Newsrooms Swimming in Data | PBS: One of the most striking things t… http://t.co/6k5cuQqW

Some newsrooms worry that without ArcView, their spatial capabilities are limited. Fear not: QGIS has quietly come of age. Over the past few years it has become easier to use and far more powerful. It’s now a more than worthy replacement for the old ArcView standby. There’s no dearth of resources for getting your feet wet with spatial analysis in QGIS. Here are a few links to get you started:

Very interesting looking international conference on investigative sport journalism http://t.co/435oWKHE

Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts (PDF): http://t.co/qlqNPHXu

Diverse types of news websites compete with one another to attract Internet users’ attention. This context raises the following questions: Do different news websites update their content on a real-time basis to attract users? What is the status of immediacy in online media? This study casts doubt on the notion that vast amounts of instantly changed news circulate among online media. This doubt asserts that the immediacy of online news is a myth because it reflects only the beliefs of researchers, journalists, and users. Further, this myth ignores the fact that institutional practices govern the news production activity of news websites. This mythological nature of immediacy has not received sufficient attention in previous research. This study tracks news websites in South Korea, a leading country in broadband penetration, to demonstrate this mythological status of immediacy.

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Video: Moritz Stefaner – Eyeo Festival 2011 (by Eyeo Festival) http://t.co/pjdxjaHr

KNIME stands for Konstanz Information Miner and it’s a quite famous data mining tool. It has a large group of followers in the area of pharmaceutical companies but I suspect it is little known to data visualization experts. The whole issue of what is the role of Data Mining in visualization deserves a whole blog post, and it’s in my plans to talk diffusely about that. But here KNIME is suggested for two main reason:

This research examines whether people who contribute to local news sites achieve feelings of community typically associated with America's “Third Places” (an Oldenburg, 1991, term that refers to the coffee shops, libraries and other community gathering spots). The article posits that some so-called “citizen journalists” find that they enhance their individual fulfillment, empowerment over information and local communal connections when they contribute to local news sites and blogs online. The research also explored why some otherwise motivated people remain non-contributors. Four realms of tension inhibit full engagement—perceptions of a social collective, authority over information, temporal confusion, and a spatial discomfort between physical and virtual worlds.

Media History Digital Library – Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound: We a… http://t.co/sLw0wOFo

We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 200,000 pages, and that number is growing.

RT @alexgamela: New post:: The news website of the future? New portuguese project P3 presents bold layout http://t.co/2y6iz21v

Vimeo is selling you music for your videos – One Man and His Blog: I was hunting for some music for a video proj… http://t.co/PICC3hFT

I was hunting for some music for a video project the other day, and struggled to find reasonably-priced selections of tracks to be used in that sort of context. Given the boom in popularity in online video in recent years, I was genuinely surprised there wasn't something like the Vimeo Music Store. But now there is. Given that I've utterly exhausted the possibilities of the music that ships with iMovie, I suspect I'll be digging into this store a fair amount.

the network is considering following Fox in limiting access to its full-length episodes to viewers who pay for cable or satellite TV.
Since launching the latest version of its iPad app, some wondered if the decision signaled a chance in the way NBC thought about access to its content online and on mobile devices. In particular, BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield suggested the move positioned NBC and Fox digital strategies at “180 degree polar opposites.” But that’s not necessarily true; Zigler said the network was evaluating the possibility of also extending authenticated access to its own content online and on mobile devices like the iPad.

Zuckerberg's Law': [the] quantity of social sharing doubles every 12 months. [The t]rend has held at [Facebook] for 4 years." Whatever the numbers, it's absolutely clear that the new social platforms enable breakneck growth. Instagram is growing twice as fast as Foursquare which is growing faster than Twitter did which grew faster than Facebook did. This is because as social platforms grow, the amount of sharing that goes on them grows exponentially, which means new services can be distributed even faster. And you can't even find Instagram photos on Google: you can find the app's site, but if you search for a particular user's Instagram page, you can't find it on Google. Google was once the overwhelmingly important platform for a startup's growth, and no it's not just #2 but utterly irrelevant to the fastest-growing notable startup.  

RT @journonest: A tour of the @birminghammail and @birminghampost offices courtesy of @brumroadrunner http://t.co/khmzmirM

Here's a project: shall we go to Ladbrokes tomorrow & find out what odds they'll *really* give us on this bet? http://t.co/SrYJjfiO

Bookies jump on PR opportunity to quote odds of "a million-to-one" – would they give you those odds at the counter? http://t.co/oMhQEJTj

Photo: (via The 20-Minute SEO Audit Infographic | Search Engine Journal) http://t.co/iktWWo6V

In a FOLIO: Q&A, Martin shares what he considers to be the biggest advancements in magazine manufacturing, the challenges of the new dual print/digital workflow (and why digital isn’t necessarily less expensive), and how he’s managed to save 7 to 8 percent on paper costs year-after-year.

“In some ways, it’s exciting – we’ve all felt somewhat held to ransom by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). But, in some ways, it adds additional confusion and pressure on our development teams.”

David r was banned in July. Banning is a social measure where the community decides that the person’s invitation to edit the site has been rescinded. You can read David r/Hari’s ban discussion: there were fifteen users who supported a ban (myself included), and three who opposed the ban. David r is banned indefinitely from editing anything on Wikipedia. As we now have confirmation that David r is Johann Hari, Johann Hari is indefinitely banned from Wikipedia.1 This means that if he pops up with a new account and someone can confirm that the account is a “sockpuppet” used by Hari, that account will be blocked indefinitely on sight.

– Saying ‘what do you think?’ isn’t always enough to get a discussion going. Often people will say to themselves “er, I don’t think anything” and move on to answering emails. If you ask a specific questions, it might result in some specific answers. Rory asked people what advice they’d give a younger version of themselves – the title of an article he did for the site – and 25 comments later the thread is still going (my favourite tip: “Go into investment banking”).

But, out of the 23 papers with mobile sites, only three sell display advertising against their pages, according to a paper presented by researchers Francois Nel and Oscar Westlund to Cardiff University’s Future Of Journalism conference. Classified advertising, which was launched on to 11 of those sites in 2010, is now entirely absent. And, of five mobile/tablet apps available for the titles, only one, The Belfast Telegraph, charges anything.

Since the change, on-site dwell time has risen from two minutes to an average three minutes and 40 seconds. Although the Premier League itself remains in a court battle with YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) over highlights posted by users, City this month started its own YouTube channel with CityTV’s behind-the-scenes videos. One, of new striker Samuel Nasri’s arrival at the club, clocked 100,000 views in 10 hours.

Online content providers scramble as reliance on TV drops – The Washington Post: In May, Nielsen announced that… http://t.co/fkaEvYoL

Would the real Salman Rushdie please tweet up? – News, People – The Independent: The speed and accuracy of the r… http://t.co/qFIeAihw

A link to that #hyperlocal research can be found here: http://t.co/ppDQvz3W #hyperlocalbrum

In May, Nielsen announced that for the first time in 20 years, the number of households that own television sets dropped, from 98.9 percent to 96.7 percent. Although the research firm said that some households shed televisions because of the recession — just as in the early ’90s — the company also noted that young people are growing more comfortable getting their television fix online.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple turn television watching completely on its head by building social into TV watching in an elegant and usable way. Things like seeing what your friends are watching, true integration with social networks, comment and discussion while watching programming (and no, it hasn't been done before–slapping a twitter app into an internet connected TV doesn't count as social enabled TV.)

What is the Web Index? The Web Index will be the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web and its impact on people in a large number of countries.  It will be a composite index, incorporating political, economic, social, and developmental indicators, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure.

The speed and accuracy of the reply was impressive, but many remained unconvinced. "[He] may yet be a very well informed pretender, Which would be even more fun…" said Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistan Director at Human Rights Watch, and someone intimately familiar with Mr Rushdie's family in Pakistan.
Mr Hasan then posed an even trickier question, the answer to which is a possession of very few. "Ok. To convince me, tell me the late Nabeela's middle name," Mr Hasan demanded, referring to Mr Rushdie's sister, "and pet name and i will believe you totally." Within a moment, he replied, with correct answers to both questions.
The display picture, apparently taken by a webcam, suggests it is Mr Rushdie. It's too clear and close up to be from among the many pictures available publicly. The list of people he follows, from his son to Kylie Minogue, are all known to be intimates of Mr Rushdie.

RT @willperrin: @paulbradshaw see http://t.co/cKqwtWce for in character/fake ambridge site discussion #hyperlocalbrum

RT @tombarfield: @paulbradshaw credit big issue for @demotix – theme of recent @frontlineclub event, <30% of images in papers get cre …

Small-Town Gossip Moves to the Web, Anonymous and Vicious – NYTimes.com: http://t.co/K9uGp0aT

With WSJ Social, the Journal is purposely “navigating the content within the app around people,” Baratz told me, and making “every user an editor”; the app, in large part, she says, is about “elevating the role of people as curators of content.” The end result: “When you walk into the app, you have this very curated publication,” Baratz says — one that could, if done right, provide users with a nice mix of personalization and serendipity.

All the websites will include touch-screen enabled elements, for instance a slide show (also known as a rotator) on the homepage of Good Housekeeping, which is manipulate by a mouse click when accessed via P.C. but is touch operated when accessed via smartphones and tablets. Hearst is one of several media operations who have leapt to the possibilities provided by HTML5. The Financial Times and The Boston Globe have both launched HTML 5 versions of their site in order to get around Apple's mandatory 30% cut of all sales through their app store- and the fact that Adobe flash technology has long been banned from iPhones by Apple. What will Apple make of that?

Spending the day with MA Online Journalism students at the Birmingham Post & Mail's #hyperlocal day [pic]: http://t.co/mlrX5pRw

RT @dandavies23: RT @heatherAtaylor: beta version of the BBC's new homepage: http://t.co/4QmMdQSP Iwhat do you think? #BBChomepage > …

"Repeat after me: the European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution" http://j.mp/nRzEYq

beta620 | Welcome to beta620: At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and d… http://t.co/uswp0rI6

Cooking the data – O'Reilly Radar: The first problem open data advocates run into is that of getting real info… http://t.co/uCdDCfrU

At The New York Times, our software engineers, journalists, product managers and designers are constantly striving to create new and innovative ways to present news and information and interact with our readers. Yet it’s often difficult to try out new inventions on the world’s largest newspaper Web site. That’s why we created beta620, a new home for experimental projects from Times developers — and a place for anyone to suggest and collaborate on new ideas and products.

Photo: (via Lies, damned lies and statistics » Blog Archive » If you condensed 3.4 billion Internet hours… http://t.co/FhmLhwDr

In fact, that’s nearly all there is to the site. You can upload up to 16 video files, add a title and soundtrack — select from available tracks or add your own — and then sit back and wait for an email to notify you that your mini movie is ready to be shared (in testing this took 20 to 30 minutes, depending on video file size).

Guest post by @jerryvermanen: Dutch regional newspapers launch data journalism project RegioHack http://t.co/A1W7BNDJ

The amount of pension money being invested in Guernsey by British ex-pats has been revealed for the first time.
A freedom of information request to tax authorities in the UK shows the island is the biggest player on the planet so far this year.
And it's all down to QROPS – which stands for Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes- a type of pension for people from the UK who are permanently moving overseas. Where the money goes, and how much it is all worth had been a bit of a mystery. But the lid has been lifted for the first time following a freedom of information request to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in the UK.

A COP did so much overtime last year he almost TREBLED his pay to £109,000, The Sun can reveal.The Metropolitan Police sergeant claimed an incredible £69,000 on top of his basic £40,000 salary.
Meanwhile, a Met constable clocked up £55,000 on top of a £30,000 wage. A Freedom of Information request revealed other forces are also paying out huge overtime sums.

What to include or exclude. “What should I include in the picture? What is important to tell the story?” Consider what to exclude. What is distracting? Telephone poles, signs, cars. Compose to keep them out of the picture. There are exceptions. You might want to show a specific location through photos of car license plates or road signs. In that case, these objects can be important.

Photo: (via Yoda pie chart) http://t.co/XuHs5icD

Video: Presenting Photography Threat Level Advisory (by jmcolberg) http://t.co/RaWTteEc

The solution is presented as a visually compelling ‘Concept Map’, depicting the salient Concepts and their relationships, which can be readily interrogated at either the Theme, Concept or Thesaurus level – with drill-down capability to the supporting text. There is an equivalent Concept Tag Cloud, various xml and csv export reports, an interactive log-book interface and an innovative new Insight Dashboard, specially designed to get immediate insight into the data and solution characteristics – at the press of a button!

This file documents awk, a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them.

RT @newsbrooke: RT @mandyldewaal: #APAI Announcement made on the launch of the Pan-African media network project: http://t.co/oRuSlhCu

But the nature of the surrounding community affected these decisions. The higher the voter turnout in an area around a plant, a proxy for residents’ political power, the greater the facility’s reported reductions in air carcinogens. Yet not all the reports of pollution reductions may be real. When you compare TRI reports of pollution releases with actual measures of nearby pollution, for heavily regulated chemicals such as lead and nitric acid it appears that firms are not accurately reporting their emissions.

The paper (full title: “Opening the Political Mind? The effects of self-affirmation and graphical information on factual misperceptions”) shares findings from three experiments that asked participants to assess sets of controversial data: on the U.S. troop-level surge in Iraq in 2007, the jobs market under the Obama administration, and global temperature change. From those, it draws two big conclusions about the psychology of misinformation: First, that external affirmations of “self-worth” — essentially, the buttressing of people’s sense of their own values and worldviews — can actually reduce misperceptions among the people who are most likely to resist information that runs counter to their already-held beliefs; and, second, that graphical presentation of corrections (and of controversial information in general) can be more powerful than their textual counterparts in terms of convincing people to amend their misperceptions.

Though these pro-state users present a worrying development, the overall trend is toward a diversity of views. As George Washington University professor and Middle East blogger Marc Lynch observed in 2007, the Arab blogosphere is "chipping away at the encrusted structures of the Arab punditocracy." Social networking sites serve a similar purpose while encouraging quick updates and communication. While blogging allows for reactive punditry, Twitter and Facebook allow for rapid-fire commentary. Their use during major events is often immediately corrective, providing context or amending errors in mainstream journalism.

Mark Nigrini shares the story of physicist Frank Benford, a man whose curiosity about a book inspired a bizarre discovery. Benford's Law, as it is now known, reveals a cosmic preference for certain numbers. Then Darrell D. Dorrell, a forensic accountant, describes how he uses Benford's Law to bust crooks.

This odd phenomenon is Benford's Law. If a set of values were truly random, each leading digit would appear about 11% of the time, but Benford's Law predicts a logarithmic distribution. It occurs so regularly that it is even used in fraudulent accounting detection. See the Wikipedia article for a more thorough discussion. This is a simple experiment to see how many large, publicly accessible datasets satisfy Benford’s Law.

For example, in every country in Asia-Pacific, aside from China and Japan, Facebook is the preferred social media channel. In China, video sharing is more popular, while in Japan, blog platforms and video sharing are more popular than mainstream social networks.

The latest seven to appear on the official list are: the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Latvia, Peru, South Korea, Sweden and Ukraine. The list is: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Peru, Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey and Ukraine.

Pinterest hasn't gotten a lot of press before, though. That could be because it's a visual bookmarking site used primarily by women (apparently) , and the male-dominated tech press is just less likely to notice success in that sector. It's a great looking service though and a lot of fun to use. There are certainly ways it could be improved, but it's clearly catching on.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society in Cambridge on Friday, Sir Martin said that social networks were "not the right context" for commercial advertising because they interrupted something that was supposed to be fluid and informal.

Molleindustria is an app developer who makes a line of controversial and political games. Some of its more well known games include McDonalds Videogame, Operation: Pedopriest, and Oiligarchy. It just recently announced and released its latest game, Phone Story. This particular game takes the player through the cruel world of smart phone production using a series of mini games depicting the mining of coltan from the Congo using child labor, the suicides in the Foxconn factories and, of course, e-waste disposal in third world countries.

The tools are sensitive enough so that even a few seconds of a song can trip them and the major content producers are very active in seeking this content out and getting it removed from the various video hosting sites, especially YouTube. Unfortunately, the aggressiveness of this enforcement combined with the sensitivity of some of the tools means that not all of the takedown notices are accurate or fair. So, as a video blogger, you need to be aware of your rights, make sure that you use content within the bounds of fair use and, if needed, stand up for your rights.

New York, September 14, 2011–U.S. diplomatic cables disclosed last month by WikiLeaks cited an Ethiopian journalist by name and referred to his unnamed government source, forcing the journalist to flee the country after police interrogated him over the source's identity, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. It is the first instance CPJ has confirmed in which a citation in one of the cables has caused direct repercussions for a journalist.

RT @VirginTrains: UPDATE: Delays between Milton Keynes Central and London Euston / Clapham Junction expected until 11:00 http://ow.ly/6x …

@HelenaBengtsson thanks for doing the interview – now edited and up at http://t.co/4S3VaYut

grep -lir "some text" * The -l switch outputs only the names of files in which the text occurs (instead of each line containing the text), the -i switch ignores the case, and the -r descends into subdirectories.

I imagine you're using the Text To Columns wizard, right ? If so, then, in the "Other" field, press your Left "Alt" key, and in the Numeric keyboard type 010 if that doesn't appear to work, try with the number 013 that should do what you need.

As with CSV files, at first it seems odd to be scraping Excel spreadsheets, when they’re already at least semi-structured data. Why would you do it?
The format of Excel files can varies a lot – how columns are arranged, where tables appear, what worksheets there are. There can be errors and inconsistencies that are easiest to fix in code. Sometimes you’ll find the data is there but not formatted in cells – entire rows in one cell, or data stored in notes.
We used an Excel scraper that pulls together 9 spreadsheets into one dataset for the brownfield sites map used by Channel 4 News.

Here's the news quiz the trainees did today by @petersands55 http://t.co/uQ5m6lqF 13.5 to beat.

Waiting for the 5th and final train of my journey – 1 delay against me, but 1 in my favour http://t.co/CQbx0Yx5

RT @philipjohn: Phone hacking: Met seek court order to reveal the Guardian's sources http://t.co/3nxrowSu via @guardian

RT @smfrogers: RT @gabrieldance: we are expanding the interactive team at Guardian U.S. so if you're interested in working with me … h …

Kate Crawford and I decided to sit down and interrogate some of the assumptions and biases embedded into the rhetoric surrounding “Big Data.” The resulting piece – “Six Provocations for Big Data” – offers a multi-discplinary social analysis of the phenomenon with the goal of sparking a conversation. This paper is intended to be presented as a keynote address at the Oxford Internet Institute’s 10th Anniversary “A Decade in Internet Time” Symposium.

This is the first incident I am aware of in Mexico in which social media users and bloggers, as opposed to journalists working for more conventional news organizations, have been targeted in this manner. One of the messages near the corpses read: This happened for snitching on Frontera Al Rojo Vivo (A Grupo Refroma internet forum created to both inform of and denounce cartel activity)

EIB data to ignore: http://t.co/yBPJxI9M

More data you can ignore: http://t.co/kRfEAFlY

Dataset for my PA trainees: http://t.co/KC3G8lGj #names #data

I do like this place – but have never had the cheese… (@ The Cheese Shop) http://t.co/aP3XztYE

RT @carolinebeavon: New project to examine how Wikipedia covers breaking news | CyberJournalist.net http://t.co/dglvE2oe

A fragment of rainbow in the middle of the sky http://t.co/oecBo3wg

Overdue – but welcome. RT @jayrosen_nyu: Johann Hari: A personal apology. http://t.co/EFp2WKyX

Off for my now annual 3 day sessions teaching data journalism to Telegraph trainees http://t.co/HCmST1qS

Tumblrize crossposts your published WordPress entries to Tumblr and Posterous. All you need is a Tumblr account. Changes you make to your WordPress po

Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool – it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos. But Tumblr can also be used to power a news website. That's exactly what ShortFormBlog does. Launched in January 2009 by Ernie Smith from Washington D.C., the site publishes about 30 news soundbites a day. ShortFormBlog is still a part-time project for Smith, who also works as a graphic designer at The Washington Post. He's hoping to turn the site into a full-time business. And I think he's onto something, certainly in terms of using a tool like Tumblr to change the way news is delivered and consumed. I interviewed Smith to find out more about his Tumblr-powered news service.

Photo: (via Is the 90-9-1 Rule for Online Community Engagement Dead? [Data] | CustomerThink) http://t.co/kRCWpkp

NHS Comparators is a national resource and is part of the Secondary Uses Service (SUS), jointly delivered by the NHS Information Centre and NHS Connecting for Health. It provides comparator data for NHS commissioning and provider organisations, enabling users to investigate aspects of local activity, costs and outcomes. It is designed to be supplemented by information available in local systems.

Interesting investigation into pharmacies vs dispensaries on R4's You & Yours. Shame there's no textual info online http://t.co/DU3sQjH

UBM’s ABC exit shows how publishers are moving from measuring users to building relationships | TheMediaBriefing… http://t.co/6yA3C0o

The publication of the first audited circulation figures for digital magazine sales did little to make the case that online subscriptions are the future.  Only two magazines have sold more than 1,000 subscriptions – Men’s Health and Hello!  And neither of them had sold enough to give much cheer to those who mourn the forests of trees needed to feed the UK’s magazine habit.

So the news mattered. But so did job advertising. In research, many readers said they read the news before the jobs, or indeed only read only the jobs. So it seemed to me as the journalists returned to work, that it was the entire package that made for successful publishing.

In what should have very loud alarm bells ringing for media metrics bodies and publishers that put faith in them, Built Environment will now audited by receive data from Pricewaterhousecooper (PWC), in a system similar to the Average Daily Global Audience measure that FT.com uses (please note the helpful clarifying comment from Stuart at the BPA below – PWC is technically not auditing anyone). Unlike the ABC, which splits online and print into different sections, the PWC's methods measures both print and online and does not count duplicates (someone who reads the title online and in print in the same day).

Posted yesterday: The New Online Journalists #11: Jack Dearlove http://t.co/yUcuCIa

RT @psychemedia: Wondering if any other local journalism folk have done mapping stories around boundary changes? http://t.co/3QMpG6U /vi …

BuzzData | Blog, BuzzData star: James McKinney: McKinney recalls making the same type of list last year, but the… http://t.co/EU5Z7yr

McKinney recalls making the same type of list last year, but the experience was different: “I had done something similar for the Open Government Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation a year ago, but we were using Google Spreadsheets at the time,” he says. “Google Spreadsheets’ strength is real-time document collaboration, but it’s weak on other social aspects. For example, if you close the spreadsheet, you lose your chat history.
“Although BuzzData is only in beta, already the conversation sidebar acts as a useful backchannel between collaborators and the overview page is a convenient opportunity to introduce editors to formatting guidelines and design decisions.”

what’s more, it happened over the course of four or five hours, with a couple of technology/knowledge transfers along the way, as well as evolution in the way both news agencies communicated the information compared to the way the Boundary Commission released it.

News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites – NYTimes.com: Part of the problem is the result of a fundamental shi… http://t.co/4Lafwzc

“What we’re doing is detecting the user’s screen size when they enter the site and giving them the right layout,” said Jeff Moriarty, the Globe’s vice president of digital products. “It responds on a real-time basis, so if you flip your iPad from vertical to landscape, it will change.”
There are six possible layouts depending on the device’s screen size: a simple one-column page for phones, more columns and complexity for 5- to 7-inch tablets and 10-inch iPads (adjusting for horizontal or vertical orientation), and a large version for laptop or desktop browsers.

The layout of BostonGlobe.com changes when an iPad user rotates the device from vertical to horizontal view.The site also detects the capabilities of the device, so a smartphone or tablet user can swipe her way through a photo gallery or a featured content carousel.

English is one of those 'let's just go do it' publishers who has adopted the tablet platform early on and is continuing to experiment. Tablazine's first magazine, Hoodgrown, has been written about several times on this site, and has garnered a bit of well deserved press. But for that first magazine, English chose to work with Alligator Digital Magazines, the Los Angeles-based company he first read about on this site. For his newest magazine, English is doing more of the work on his own and is experimenting with a different platform, Pugpig.

Part of the problem is the result of a fundamental shift in Web behavior. Media stalwarts erected a frame around the Web and organized, and sometimes produced, content. Now the frame around content is the Web browser itself, and consumers do their own programming and are more inclined to see news consumption as a kind of voting, selecting smaller brands that reflect their sensibilities.

Nearly a third of crown court hearings in the East of England which do not go ahead as planned are adjourned due to legal teams not being ready on the day of the trial, the BBC can reveal.
A BBC Freedom of Information request found that the percentage of trials which fail to go ahead varies widely.
In Northamptonshire 3.3% of trials did not go ahead, while in Hertfordshire the figure was 16.6%.
In the East 30.6% of these did not go ahead due to legal teams issues.

Judge Fiona Henderson ordered Camden Council to comply with a Freedom of Information request from the Advisory Service for Squatters to reveal the list of empty council-managed and private homes in the borough.She was quoted by the Daily Telegraph as saying publication would "bring buildings back into use sooner and the housing needs of additional people would be met".

RT @jamescuff: Did you see the iPhone auto-correct short film I made for The Sunday Times? http://t.co/XEiVOmC

This iPhone auto-correct love song is ducking brilliant http://t.co/2MaZG8H

Journalists often want to create a thematic web maps, in which geographic areas are filled in with color/shade according to data values, for example:http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/census-2010/Thanks to Google Fusion Tables, creating basic thematic maps and embedding them on a web page is now easy. 

The Boundary Commission for England refused to give us this map – so we've made it ourselves using the raw data showing which wards would sit in which new constituency. What do you think?

@newsbrooke the MEN have managed to map one constituency http://t.co/oCGgos4 cc/@pdgallagher

Spool Is Instapaper On Steroids – TechCrunch: But with Spool, you don’t have to think about these sorts of thing… http://t.co/FT7EfJ8

But with Spool, you don’t have to think about these sorts of things. Any Internet content, including audio, video and text, can be made available for immediate, offline viewing on mobile, simply by using the Spool app, browser add-on or bookmarklet. And because Spool is intelligent, it knows what part of a webpage to save, and what part to discard.

An easier way to think about it may be as YouTube/Justin.tv mixed with The Gong Show. Or if you’re under 30, maybe think of it as Turntable.fm for live video. Participants go live with either a musical performance or a talk and they’re voted on in realtime. Thumbs-up votes buys the person more time, thumbs-down means they’ll soon be shoved off the stage.

RT @carolinebeavon: How to Focus | Visual.ly http://t.co/4SZmC6v

RT @kwesth: Fine collection of data gathering and data processing tools for social media http://t.co/lLaBvmN #foj11

Emap picks data specialist as chief executive – Brand Republic News: http://t.co/V4DaKx7

It’s clear from the data that companies in the Balanced category achieve the best results overall. They generate 20% fewer clicks per post than Curators, but their conversion rate is 10X higher. I’ll take that trade any day.

"Estates Gazette  and Capita Symonds  have joined forces to produce the first-ever augmented reality edition of Estates Gazette. The Capita Symonds advertisements in the print edition on 3 September 2011 can be viewed using the CS AR App downloaded to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Read more

The average UK PR professional is paid £48,247 pa, nearly twice the average salary for the UK workforce as a whole, according to PR Week.
In 2010, the average salary for those in 'all service industries' was £25,855.
According to the survey, press officers average £28,384; senior account mangers £36,514; media managers £39,091; head of comms/external affairs £55,203; PR directors £55,516; chief executives/mds £60,925; and comms directors £83,191.

The Social Sidekick features “most liked/tweeted” content from Condé‘s mag sites W, Glamour, Self, Teen Vogue, Lucky and the Style.com. The bar kind of hovers over an area on the lower part of a site’s screen and scrolls down when a user moves down the page, along with a plus/minus sign allowing viewers to close or expand it. If you click to expand the bar, it then shows multiple panes that each feature a single title’s article links with Gucci content below.

Since we last checked in with Homicide Watch D.C., Laura Amico has continued to make good on her site’s promise: Mark every death. Remember every victim. Follow every case. Amico, a former newspaper reporter, has indexed the victims, suspects, and details of every murder committed in Washington, D.C., since September 2010, attempting to collect personal stories along the way.

High Court clinical negligence claim against Dept of Health for decades of disability caused by false claims of harmlessness of dental amalgam. Come to hearing 6th October 2011 at RCJ in London

This paper examines the intersection of journalism and open-source software, in the context of the ongoing tension between professional control and open participation in digital media. Through interviews with key winners of the Knight News Challenge innovation contest, this article explores how open source, as a technological framework and a socio-cultural ethic, serves to legitimize and facilitate participation in journalism. News innovators are found to see journalism as an open-source practice to be shared, rather than a proprietary profession to be protected—and news not as a professional product alone, so much as a process of iterative, collaborative de-bugging. The implications of this shift are discussed in light of journalism’s changing occupational boundaries.

Meanwhile, from a current student: RT @Andy_Watt: A visualisation of this morning's game. http://t.co/OhyzmuC

RT @cward1e: Extremely well deserved RT @smfrogers Rogers is 'internet journalist of the year' http://t.co/bPIezX5

New #sftw post: How to use the CableSearch API to quickly reference names against #Wikileaks #cables (SFTW): http://t.co/BCPsC65

This week’s issue of NME features a unique six-digit code printed on the cover, which can be used online to unlock exclusive content and giveaways.

This week NME Extra celebrates 20 years of ‘Nevermind’, the album that changed rock music forever. Behind the unique code readers can find:

• A classic NME interview with Nirvana from 1991

• A video feature with Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Hurts discussing their favourite ‘Nevermind’ tracks

• A Nirvana photo gallery

• And a competition to win rare ‘Nevermind’ artwork and merchandise

NME publishing director Paul Cheal (pictured) says: "NME was the first music magazine in the UK to use QR codes so that our readers could capitalise on additional digital content for their smartphones. This latest innovation brings additional features, photography and video content direct to our readers' desktops."

This app is the first to be produced by Dennis’ newly created in-house mobile app development team, Dennis Media Factory. The team features iOS and Android specialists, allowing Dennis to launch the new Profanisaurus app simultaneously on iPhone/iPod touch and Android phones. A version for Symbian powered Nokia phones will follow shortly afterwards, developed by Future Platforms, known for their work on this year’s Official Glastonbury app.

Mike Newcombe, director of Mobile Sales at IPC, says: “This partnership further establishes P&G's credentials in being one of the first to invest and reap the rewards of the ever growing mobile medium with the product range perfectly complimenting IPC's market leading female mobile user base.

“With 30 sites already live and up to 15% of digital traffic coming organically via mobile, it's evident there is a clear and present demand for our user base to have instant access to their favourite brands across multiple platforms.”

[The Transparency Register] provides citizens with a direct and single access to information about who is engaged in activities aiming at influencing the EU decision making process, which interests are being pursued and what level of resources are invested in these activities.

China struggles to tame microblogging masses – Gadgets & Tech, Life & Style – The Independent: "This is where pu… http://t.co/A3nWUKQ

"This is where public opinion is being formed," said Peking University journalism professor Hu Yong. Hu said the decision by authorities in the booming east coast city of Dalian to relocate a controversial chemical plant owed much to a largely middle class public protest one Sunday in August that had its origins in weibo posts. "The Dalian party secretary came out and gave a speech promising to shut the chemical plant," he said. "We seldom see this. This is significant."

Such data has always been valuable. However, the internet revolution is transforming it into a cashable proposition. The online genealogy market grew from nothing to millions a year, thanks to the availability of family records online. The worldwide satnav market, based on free data from the US government’s GPS system, is worth well over $100bn year, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

Freedom of Information requests are slow, tedious, and as a means of gathering information roughly equal in efficiency to the game Battleships. You fire off a formal request, wait a month for a reply telling you your request was rubbish and off-target, move two squares to the left and fire again, and repeat until you get what you were after, or you've given up, or you've died of old age. Apply this to research data and there's a good chance that even if it's available it may be unintelligible, or in a proprietary format, or undocumented.

There's a unique anti-business attitude in Europe in relation to FoI. Prof James Boyle of Duke University Law School told me: "European attitudes towards private commercialisation actually work against the idea of openness. In the US if the government hands out weather data for free and people make a ton of money off the back of it, everyone says, 'Great! it's good for the economy, good for us, good for the company' … In Britain there's a sense that the company has got something for free and now they're making money out of it. 'How terrible! They're free-riding.' They don't see the overall economic benefit that comes from sharing information."

We asked government departments for details of how much they had spent on proprietary software over the past year, and how much open source software they had acquired.
The responses have been dribbling in for months now (available as a Google doc, an Excel spreadsheet or as separate .csv files below), and they've varied from detailed accounts of software and expenditure, to refusals to provide any information on the grounds that it would cost too much.

In June the commissioner’s office said the university’s reason for refusing to hand over the information, because the request was considered “vexatious”, was not a correct reason and ordered it to issue another response.

A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice found that in 2005, 1,363 people were convicted while in 2010, it was 2,135.

BBC News – Victory for Cliff's law: What is surprising about this is that ministers have also approved the findi… http://t.co/wNOas7L

What is surprising about this is that ministers have also approved the findings of the Hargreaves Review on copyright.
Its central message was that the copyright regime should be tidied up, and enforced where possible, but that its reach should not be extended.
All those music industry bodies which have campaigned so long for this are keeping their powder dry tonight, waiting for the Council of Ministers to rubber-stamp the decision before they say anything.

According to the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center’s report “Egypt from Tahrir to Transition,” the uprisings in Egypt were “not a Facebook revolution.” While media sources have widely credited online activists for igniting the recent uprisings, the report concludes that the role of social media as a key factor in mobilizing millions is likely overstated. According to the center’s research, based on a nationally representative survey of about 1,000 respondents in Egypt, only 8 percent said that they relied on Facebook and Twitter to get news on the protests. Some 81 percent named Egyptian state TV as their source for news, 63 percent named Al Jazeera.

Fadi Salem of the Dubai School of Government is equally convinced that regional satellite television had an “influential role” in toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. He doubts, however, that television would have been equally influential without videos from YouTube and information from Twitter and Facebook.

Photo: How big is your New Optimism? This big apparently. (via Egypt From Tahrir to Transition) http://t.co/Ok0N2j6

The BBC is radically rewriting its approach to the digital world, trimming down its sprawling network of websites to 10 streamlined 'products', an umbrella term which includes everything from BBC radio to the iPlayer. Responsible for Homepage, Search, News, Sport, Weather, CBBC, CBeebies, Knowledge and Learning and 2012 Olympics coverage, Phil Fearnley explains how the BBC is reaching out to audiences across different platforms under its new approach.

Olapic has a Facebook Application that lets media organizations show photos uploaded by their Facebook community to crowdsourced galleries. Going to use this as an example for my class this fall as a useful tool.

This makes crowdsourcing using your Facebook Pages much easier. Here's the link to the app: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=168450899839635 Also, here's an example of what it looks like on New York Daily News: http://on.fb.me/qit75o

Faveous is a fairly new entrant into the field, and is very like Trunkly, but the choice is slightly wider in my opinion. Sources are very similar, but you can also filter by all media, images, videos, music and documents. One particularly nice feature is the ability to save your Twitter favourites as well however; it can also delete them afterwards if you wish. There's little to choose between both systems, but since it only takes a few moments to set up, why not use both?

Did you see downloading and reading newspapers and magazines in there at number five? So only slightly more than half of the people who regularly use the internet read online news publications of some description in the last three months.
To put this in context, 57 percent of internet users and 91 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds used social networking sites in the same period. The people who are soon going to be your ad manager’s target audience already spend more time talking to friends and sharing photographs then perhaps they ever will reading newspapers or magazines online.

Photo: (via Why it’s dangerous to over-estimate how digital your audience is | TheMediaBriefing) http://t.co/sowqeqX

Since the 1980s, the US has aggressively threatened trade sanctions against countries who don’t give American companies sufficiently large competitive advantages — this is described in detail in the book Information Feudalism about the origins of the TRIPs agreement and WTO, for those interested in gory details. In practice, it works like this: industry associations in the US go to the Trade Representatives, who go to the myriad offices dealing with Foreign Policy, who go to the embassies, who talk to national governments (including the Swedish one) and demand changes to national law to benefit American corporations.

Video: Tips on investigating people and businesses http://t.co/3i4LGiQ

With this, HuffPost joins a surge of news organizations that are tapping into their staff expertise and troves of published material for relatively quick and inexpensive e-books. A few examples:

The Boston Globe released a trio on the life of fugitive gangster Whitey Bulger.
The New Yorker recently collected post-9/11 articles for its first e-book.
The New York Times assembled an e-book on WikiLeaks called “Open Secrets.”

A People’s History of the Great Recession tells personal stories of economic hardship brought on by the recession.
The fact that The Huffington Post is among these pioneers in repurposing its content for e-books is especially significant for the organization’s reputation, Delaney told me. “It shows that Huffington Post is doing real reporting. People always say, ‘It’s aggregation and unpaid bloggers,’ but it’s not. It’s more than that.”

"State Governor Jay Nixon recently signed Senate Bill 54, making it illegal for students and teachers to be friends online as of later this month. Now, a Missouri teachers group is fighting the state's new law that prohibits them from being Facebook friends with their students by filing a lawsuit. From the article: 'The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) filed a lawsuit on Friday, challenging a new law. MSTA is specifically asking the Circuit Court of Cole County to determine the constitutionality of the law’s social media portion.'"

An inquiry by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary is examining "alleged corruption and abuse of power" in police relationships with the media, while Elizabeth Filkin, the former parliamentary commissioner for standards, intends to draw up a framework for how police officers handle their relationships with reporters.

The inquiries are both considering whether communication between police officers should be officially monitored and recorded by a press officer.

Three years ago, a case against Sally Murrer, a reporter on the Milton Keynes Citizen, and a former Thames Valley police detective Mark Kearney was thrown out. Kearney had been accused of leaking information to her.

RT @saulcozens: OSS Sentiment Analysis front-end for R http://t.co/perC0IP – must read more /ht @monkchips @philsheard

Photo: You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention? (via… http://t.co/7RunTCj

One of the best features in ArtBabble is that each section (Series, Channel, Artist) has its own RSS feed, so you can subscribe to video content in a very granular way. It also features all of the usual social touches, such as ratings, comments and tag clouds. ArtBabble is an elegantly designed site with a lot of compelling content in it. Perhaps the biggest lesson here for other organizations is that the video content on ArtBabble comes from dozens of art museums, so it is varied and regularly updated. It's not always possible to collaborate with others on content, but for a social site it's always a plus.

The first is a database of more than 1,100 defendants who have appeared in court charged with riot-related offences. The list, compiled with the assistance of the Ministry of Justice, consists of more than 70% of those who have appeared in magistrate and crown courts. Many will be given the opportunity to take part in the research study in the coming weeks. The second database contains 2.5m riot-related tweets. Executives at Twitter's headquarters in California authorised the collation of tweets, pooled from hashtags relating to the riots and their aftermath, so they could form part of the study. A spokeman for the company said: "Twitter provided publicly available information that is accessible to researchers and others via its API."

“CMS – the software UX forgot” – Karen McGrane at Content Strategy Forum 2011: If you were an eCommerce operatio… http://t.co/k63jI8i

If you were an eCommerce operation, you would be rigorously trying to remove the obstacles to conversion on the front-end of your website, because that makes you money. So if you you are a content creation business, why wouldn’t you apply the same methodology to your workflow, and eliminate the points of pain that introduce inefficiency in your business? Usability isn’t about fonts, she said, it is about workflow
We’ve done a poor job, she said, of convincing people of the real benefits of structured content over bespoke digital layout. She compared Condé Nast, who have tripled their workload by needing one print and two bespoke iPad layouts of every article, to NPR who have built an API that makes “Create once, publish everywhere” a reality. A graph she showed of the sales of Glamour suggested that investment in bespoke layouts was sometimes selling less than 3,000 copies of an app – a shockingly poor return on investment.

National Readership statistics, based on a rolling programme of 36,000 interviews every year, add a lot more bells and whistles, including breakdowns between male and female readers. And if there's one area of readership that has come to define resilience and, in some cases, even growth, then it's the challenge of recruiting women.
Look at the Mail on Sunday's You magazine in the latest July 2010 to June 2011 release: 2,202,000 women against 1,561,000 men. These are vital counterweights to all that Premiership football, the preserve of young men, or family money pull-outs which men dominate 3:2. Look at the Sunday Telegraph's Stella, with 534,000 women to 323,000 men in a paper where men dominate by more than 50,000, or the Guardian Weekend, 623,000 women to 529,000 men. Look, for that matter, at Observer readership – 605,000 men and 535,000 women overall, but a far narrower 466,000 men against 460,000 women in magazine terms – and 544,000 women to 424,000 men on Food Monthly days.

First and foremost, the concept of an “editor” at TechCrunch is essentially just a title and nothing more. Generally speaking, neither Mike nor Erick (TC’s two “co-editors”) are overlords that dictate what everyone else covers. With a few exceptions (mainly for newer writers), no one person even reads posts by any other author before they are posted. Traditional journalists may be appalled to learn this. But this is a big key of why TechCrunch kicks their ass in tech coverage. We’re fast and furious in ways they can’t be, because they’re adhering to the old rules. Are there benefits to those old rules? Sure. But in my opinion, the benefits of the way we work far outweighs the benefits of the way they work.

Infographic: gathering data: a flow chart for data journalists http://t.co/hGoIFcr

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Video: I wasted many hours playing this: The Boss (by UlvYngling) http://t.co/Tt1Muxv

Nominet, the registrar that handles .uk domains, is moving ahead with proposed rules (PDF) that could allow law enforcement agencies to request a domain be shut down without a court order.The registrar launched the process in response to a request from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Currently Nominet’s rules don’t allow for domains to be shut down for criminal reasons, though in the past it has blocked domains at the request of law enforcement agencies on the pretext that they provided false contact details.Limited applicationSuspension of a domain will not require a court order but should be limited to circumstances where necessary “to prevent serious and immediate consumer harm”, according to Nominet.

Gerardo Buganza, the interior secretary for Veracruz state in Mexico, said it could very well be the “Twitter terrorism” caused by two people who allegedly spread false reports of gunmen attacking schools and kidnapping children. Those reports caused such panic when parents scrambled around the city to get to their children that there were dozens of car accidents and emergency phone lines were jammed.The two people, a private school teacher and a radio presenter, now face 30 years in prison for charges under terrorism laws.

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RT @LocGovLawyer When can an authority refuse under Environmental Information Regulations to disclose legal advice http://t.co/d8Kk1BA #eir

RT @silviacobo: Google Kills Its Fast Flip News Reading Experiment #media http://j.mp/qDPbHk

Data journalism bootcamp (SQL) with David Donald http://t.co/6DCkb0u

I couldn’t contain myself (other more pressing things to do, but…), so I just took a quick time out and a coffee to put together a quick and dirty R function that will let me run queries over Google spreadsheet data sources and essentially treat them as database tables (e.g. Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database with the Google Visualisation API Query Language).

Incredible situation where EU citizens are not allowed to know what position their governments are adopting re:… http://t.co/aSzTXXw
The EU is reforming its rules on access to documents and Access Info wanted to know what position each government was taking on the reform. We asked the Council of the EU on 3 December 2008, and it responded on 17 December. The Council granted Access Info partial access to the documents requested: we were provided with the summary of the discussions but without the names of the countries which had been for or against any particular amendment.

The most satisfying part of this #datajournalism by @cityjournalism grad @joedyke is how transparent it is http://t.co/hnfcClD

My belief is that the second chart is a more accurate comparison to the 90-9-1 rule since all users have to be doing some activity to account for the 100% of the sample. So based on the data in that chart, there are a few interesting things we can learn:
All but one online community had more Commenters than the 9% the rule suggests. So, people seem to be more open to editing and commenting on existing information.All sites were higher in Creators than the 1% the rule maintains. One as high as 17%! With more and more people getting comfortable with social networking sites, perhaps people are more comfortable in expressing their opinions.The averages for each area are far higher than the rule suggests. (Well, other than Lurkers, but that is a good thing!)So, maybe we don’t need to be so dire about how many people engage in your online community. Based on this data I would suggest a new rule (with a little rounding):
The 70-20-10 Rule of Community Participation

However, as PaidContent reports, during the last year 10% of new digital subscriptions to the F.T. were taken out on iPad, so the fact that the newspaper's application will no longer appear in the App store may be something of a blow to the company.
The publication must convince users to subscribe to the HTML5 application, which simply isn't as convenient has having an application in iTunes, where the many potential subscribers will already have an established account that would allow them to pay and download in seconds.  

Although First Amendment jurisprudence is not always consistent with the approach of the English or European Courts, the principles set out in this case are ones which appear to be consistent with the Convention's approach. The importance of the right to gather information for the purposes of promoting public debate has been repeatedly recognised by the Strasbourg court and strongly suggests that there is a fundamental right to take photographs of the activities of public officials – particularly police officers.

Very impressed with this first piece of video from #MAOnlineJournalism student @franzibaehrle http://t.co/6GdXhcsz

@alexwoodcreates here you go: http://t.co/avCefcjQ #cityOJ

A Storify of what #Android phones people recommended on Twitter http://t.co/y8yO726q

There's a list of special #postcodes on Wikipedia: http://t.co/k2o0H39a (including many media orgs)

Quite a few tweets about @Delicious deleting accounts: http://t.co/9ruRrFmK

RT @kiyanwang: Interesting … “@newsycombinator: Princeton bans academics from handing copyright to journal publishers http://j.mp/psLhvU”

Great anecdote about metrics in this piece http://t.co/wBMcxkJR

Photo: myjournonotes: http://t.co/3ES3iBTe

A post I wrote @helpmeinvestig8: Investigating bribery: 5 things to look for http://t.co/ieawCZ2y

Tips on starting to use twitter as a journalism student from @AndrewStuart: http://t.co/yuTHhOds #cityOJ

RT @billt: RT @newsbrooke: Would you pass a social network background check? http://t.co/4k3ABthQ (no chance for me, then)

RT @hackshackersbhx: Hacks & Hackers event in Liverpool on data journalism and the Olympics http://t.co/XebEl86X

RT @jonhickman: Here's your future: trendspotting by my 3rd years #B225studio http://t.co/7iCwbTte

RT @CBM: Did The New York Times just lay off About.com’s entire editorial team? http://t.co/vc9eytLM

RT @samuelcharron: RT @nicolaskb: How good are your statistical numeracy skills? Take the #test! http://j.mp/n3y7f6 #ddj #statistics

.@helenlawson7 here are 50 RSS feeds to get you started – in easy to use Google Reader Bundles http://t.co/7kPMjHXf #cityOJ

Interesting use of #Tumblr to blog class notes RT @t30d0ra: An experiment: http://t.co/ZCQAZ0Mv #cityhacks #cityoj any feedback welcome

RT @psmith: This is what a stack looks like on the new Delicious http://t.co/qRWWLizU #CityOJ

Poll: Let's put it to a vote: which of the following would you recommend to a student journalist? http://t.co/T5W7GNZd #android

Some really useful comments on the blog post: http://t.co/s99ubjVF #android

RT @adders: Integrated newsrooms must remember print and digital are different products http://j.mp/mSKqXs <— so hard to achieve, t …

Do you use an Android phone, and if so why would you recommend that model for journalists? (A student asked me… http://t.co/KJ9txrHt

Trust #delicious to relaunch the evening after I do a #cityOJ lecture on the old version http://t.co/M4mrL6bc

The BBC wants to be your online TiVo | Online Video News: The list also contains links to episodes available onl… http://t.co/035ZTfE7

The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.

The list also contains links to episodes available online, and shows can be tracked even when on hiatus. The whole thing utilizes a very simplified UI, looking more like the unfinished work of a startup than something that a seasoned broadcaster would launch. The BBC’s R&D department explained in a blog post that the site is part of an effort to explore “how people remember programmes and how best to help them do that.”

10 inspiring accounts to follow on #Instagram

http://j.mp/onTdVr

When you create your video, there are only three parts that you can control: the Title, Description, and the video’s Tags. These are all vital for your video to be seen and make sure that they’re of the best standard, keyword AND quality wise. These are factors you have control over, but there’s other things you can’t change, such as the amount of views, the amount of likes, and the comments. The basic rule of thumb is the more uncontrolled factors the better, although there are a few variables, which will be explained shortly.

RT @edyong209: RT @ferrisjabr Hacker/writer Nik Cubrilovic says "Even if you are logged out, Facebook can track every page you visit" ht …

Liking the blog of #cityOJ student @ericabuist http://t.co/684eVN3W

RT @Rosental: Journalist is decapitated in Mexico, body left w/ threat against use of social media; press quiet about it http://t.co/m0w …

Photo: (via The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out – Peter Kafka – Social – AllThingsD) http://t.co/T2OjDQdX

New! (sort of) On the blog: A network infrastructure for journalists online http://t.co/vOgWVDiX

RT @t30d0ra: My notebook half-way through the lecture #cityoj http://t.co/UumPOmyU

More on @fieldproducer & @acarvin here http://t.co/tqZuOMyI #cityOJ

#cityoj this week's special guest @fieldproducer http://t.co/IbTSTmH8

My ritual coffee en route to the first class @cityjournalism (@ Starbucks) http://t.co/X2QAAoKg

Pew Internet: Diving Into How We Access Local News Search Engine Land: The study also found that “for the 79%… http://t.co/5Wthpr0V

A UBM digital exec writes: Why we moved to the future of media measurement: http://t.co/OZdofVhv

If “he said, she said” journalism is irretrievably lame, what’s better? » Pressthink: Voice of San Diego: New Re… http://t.co/QgXSXqPo

How Do You Detect B.S. On Social Networks? « 10,000 Words: The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Er… http://t.co/pMXJbeKa

RT @t30d0ra: To all fellow interactives @cityjournalism: here's a #infographic re: social media jobs http://t.co/JieEpkoZ by @mashable

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting wants to fill that gap with a newly released social media handbook for stations, which is hosted at the National Center for Media Engagement website. CPB commissioned the marketing firm iStrategy Labs to write a guide that targets a broad audience: not just the stations who need guidance, but the stations who still need convincing of social media’s value.

Even backed by corporate owner LOGO (which is in turn owned by Viacom), the long-standing news site 365gay.com will shut down on Sept. 30. As editor Jennifer Vanasco noted, “LOGO has shifted its online strategy and so the site is closing.”Gay news blog Bilerico let go of its managing editor and is down to a single employee running the show.Queerty, a site that was one of the top 50 political blogs on Technorati, shut down for weeks this April after its business development partner decided that gay niche blogging was unprofitable. It has since been unable to truly recover.Pam’s House Blend, a site that also broke into the ranks of the top 50 political blogs on Technorati every odd year or so had to transition from an independent site to a larger, corporate progressive site this year.

In the role of war correspondent ('warco') Jesse DeMarco, the player must capture battle footage and edit together a news story, while trying to make it out alive.
All footage is taken from the proof of concept playable developed in UDK – all in game, barring the final news story which would be edited together by the player from the war footage they've captured.

Video: Warco July 2011 (by DefiantDevelopment) http://t.co/CP014NXM

CryptDB – A PostGres modification that stores data in a securely encrypted way, but still allows efficient queries. I love the idea, can't wait to see the software.

If you’re anything like me, in these hectic times of digital distractions, you can scarcely devote time to read anything longer than 140 characters, much less write a 750-word post critiquing the latest album. Do we any longer have time to devote to indulging our passions in their respective corners of the internet? Are we content merely to fire our briefest of thoughts out in to the ether, to whomever may be following us? To real-world friends and our professional peers who may not care to engage on the topic? In social media, we have become expressive, performative, but not necessarily conversational.

AVE” (ABC Visualisation Editor). As I envision it, this may very well do for timelines what Soundslides did for audio slideshows. Read my interview with Sam Doust, Creative Director of Strategic Development at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, to learn more about this tool and when you can expect to test it out for yourself

Voice of San Diego: New Reporter Guidelines. We only do something if we can do it better than anyone or if no one else is doing it. * We must add value. We must be unique. Three things to remember for each story: * Context * Authority * Not just what is happening, but what it means There is no such thing as objectivity. * There is such thing as fairness. * But everyone sees everything through their own filter. Acknowledge that, let it liberate you. Let it regulate you.

Michelle showed the audience how to make an interactive chart that graphs crime data using Google Chart Tools. She posted a full tutorial on her website and the downloadable source code for the visualization. Here are the key links you need to build a chart yourself:

The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Error‘s Craig Silverman held a session at the Online News Association Conference here on Friday afternoon with the goal of preventing the participants from falling into a trap. (Slides from the presentation are available here.)

Love the fact that there's a Lego wiki called… Brickipedia http://t.co/gHBWShWe

EC VP Kroes On Standardization and Open Data / News / News / Home – ePSIplus – Public Sector Information: In her… http://t.co/zDJjX5jb

In her speech she presented the progress made towards a new legal framework for European Standardisation, and interoperability. Saying that "standards are indispensable for openness, freedom and choice", she said that in the coming years the focus of work will be to make the proposed legal framework become law as soon as possible. Furthermore also the new European Interoperability Framework has been created that will help create more and better interoperability, such as for cross-border public services in Europe.

RT @jasonhall: Launching a new thing on 5th October and I need your support. Come along for fun night out and find out more > http:// …

MSD, it seems, have a contract with the NHS to supply the drug. We’ve been told that part of that contract is a guarantee of supply. That has simply failed. Someone on Twitter told me they’d had a similar experience a while ago – it turned out the manufacturer was diverting all supplies to Europe, where they sell for a higher price. Is that what is happening here?

New post: New #Facebook news apps: bring the news to your users, or invite users to your news? http://t.co/9qpLSduy

"As we worked with different news organisations there were two camps: people that wanted to bring the social experience onto their sites, like Yahoo [News] and the Independent; and those that wanted the social news experience on Facebook, like Guardian, the Washington Post and the Daily," director of Facebook's platform partnerships Christian Hernandez told Journalism.co.uk.

@Colbear a photo of Um Bongo in the Congo, that is http://t.co/1dxzYxu4

@Colbear here's the footnote reference: http://t.co/qbblywdl I particularly like the footnote with a link to a blog of someone's photo of it

RT @lakey: Wikipedia: "It was believed it was unlikely that Um Bongo is drunk in the Republic of the Congo" http://t.co/yE4hCTTk

Data journalism survey: a mixed picture (guest post for the Data Driven Journalism site):… http://t.co/kupqJdcO

For the last few months, I've been using the act as a benchmarking tool, finding out how many campaign actions different Whitehall departments have received over the last 12 months and publishing them on my thoughtful campaigner blog. But the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' (NCVO) guide, Your Right to Know, gives examples of charities using it for other purposes:

• Bliss, a neo-natal charity used it for research purposes to gain access to information for local authorities, which was then collated into a policy report.

• The Campaign Against the Arms Trade used it to highlight the activities of the UK government overseas and access key documents that have helped to further inform its campaigning work.

• Campaign for Clean Air in London used the environmental information regulations to get information about deaths due to poor air quality in London which led to significant media coverage.

Official estimates suggest the amount of money loaned to students will balloon to a record level by 2047 before the Treasury starts to recoup the losses from graduates.
The disclosure – made in data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act – will raise fresh fears over the Coalition’s controversial higher education reforms.

Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, said: "These extraordinary exchanges shed further light on the murky dealings around Michael Gove. We already know that Dominic Cummings lobbied for cash to be given to the New Schools Network 'without delay', an organisation he went on to work for. We now learn that on arrival he sought to implement a restrictive and secretive approach to dealing with parliamentary enquiries.

"It would seem that Dominic Cummings holds an arrogant disregard for government processes and accountability to parliament. I have asked the cabinet secretary to investigate the actions of Dominic Cummings and other advisers to Michael Gove."