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{ Monthly Archives } August 2008

Help! What’s a great news problem to solve?

Rich Gordon’s got programmers but no project:
Between now and when the [next Medill innovation project] starts (Sept. 23), we have to decide what the focus of the project will be. In my experience with previous projects, the key is to come up with an interesting challenge or question for the students to explore.
Right now there [...]

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CNN’s new embedded videos (Plus: Why headline widgets suck it)

ReadWriteWeb sez:
Starting today, CNN will allow all users to embed videos from CNN on their blogs or social network profiles. With this, CNN is following a growing trend among news organizations like MSNBC, FoxNews, and CBS. … CNN is clearly hoping to see some of its clips go viral, and with the political season in [...]

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Flickr adds embeddable slideshows! Yaaay!

I use Flickr lots. For sharing little videos in my river blog posts, for finding creative-commons-licensed images to accompany my news stories, and for sharing my pictures with the world so that they might find their way into neat places like the Wikipedia.
And now I can embed slideshows! Woo!

Click the little arrows-in-a-box icon [...]

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Hate, props, and hotness: restoring journalism’s credibility

Journalism.co.uk sez:
NewsCred, a website aimed at gauging the credibility of online news, has been launched in a beta. The site, which aims to help users find ‘the highest quality and most credible news online’, has created a digital newspaper of aggregated articles, which are voted on by users.
NewsCred is some really neat shit. [...]

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@cnnbrk ain’t CNN, but with >30K followers, he owns the brand

TechCrunch posted about CNN’s twitterings the other day: Apparently, the feed’s followers were upset about a tweet that spoiled their Olympic viewing experience by revealing golden boy Michael Phelps’ latest feat shortly after he kicked the aquatic asses of the world’s other really freakin’ fantastic swimmers.
But it wasn’t CNN that tweeted. It was cnnbrk, [...]

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