These are my links for September 11th through September 16th:
- Nieman Reports – From blogs to vlogs, Facebook to MySpace, Twitter to Flickr, del.i.cious to reddit, words and images bounce around the globe, spreading wide and fast. Journalists are adapting to the ever-shifting terrain carved out of these conversations. In this issue they describe changes in how they work and what they produce, explore emerging ethical issues, and propose principles of active engagement. In Words & Reflections, essays touch on foreign news reporting, Afghanistan, netroots, objectivity, journalists’ political leanings, and Cold War spies. – Melissa Ludtke, Editor
- Da Spacebook (il Fb della Nasa) una ‘lezione’ su come le redazioni possono migliorare la collaborazione interna | LSDI – Il network interno lanciato alcuni mesi fa dall’ Ente spaziale americano per i suoi 18.000 addetti offre un esempio di come le redazioni giornalistiche potrebbero utilizzare la tecnologia dei social media per sviluppare ambienti di lavoro più aperti e collaborativi – Un’ analisi su Poynter.org
- Teaching Online Journalism » Moving away from sad and tragic stories – The damage done to journalism by individual tragedy stories (unconnected to larger events) is that they drive people away. There’s enough difficulty in people’s everyday lives, they say. The news is such a downer.
Sometimes the news has got to be a downer. But not every downer story is a story the public needs to hear. - Where to find the best online interactive maps :: 10,000 Words –
- Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization « Mediactive –
- Technology Review: Can You Trust Crowd Wisdom? – Researchers say online recommendation systems can be distorted by a minority of users.
- GeoSetter for Windows –
- The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front) – The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products.
- Inside peek: How The New York Times handles its blogs | Article | Homepage articles – With the help of the Times’ Technology section editor, Damon Darlin, here’s an inside look at how the NYT uses WordPress to crank out hundreds of posts per day.
