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This raises many interesting issues. Where is the context? How much can we take this video at face value? It says mainstream is unaccountable, but this is also. Heavily edited too. Also interesting that they have used a “trusted” mainstream news reporter is used to boost the rep of independant news.
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“More and more we’re finding that game mechanics, and game presentation, can make otherwise difficult or tedious tasks more palatable.”
Archive for May, 2008
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“Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane?
No! It’s SuperMedia!”
Networked Journalism
Me downloading some thoughts from the MELD thinktank I attended this week: http://www.meldonline.org/
Mobile post sent by joanna using Utterz. Replies. mp3
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In the Research and Development department they showed me:
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Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ is the next generation of web conferencing software that enables individuals and small businesses to instantly communicate and collaborate through easy-to-use, easy-to-access online personal meeting rooms.
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Today, activists, critics and watchdogs are using the latest social media tools to mobilise public opinion rapidly and keep the unsavoury discussion topic in the public eye for weeks.
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Links related to the two-day MELD Pathfinder workshop in UCLAN, Preston
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Games have started to seep in to journalism consciousness. A version of the Neverwinter nights has been used to train journalists and the games ideas that sprang from that project
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News Channel, you can select the news article you want to read from an easy to navigate list of headlines. Stay up to date with the latest news in any genre, both domestically and internationally, at any time.
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We design, build, and distribute electronic games for persuasion, instruction, and activism.
Back in the Preston Holiday Inn again. Here for the MELD thinktank which is looking at the future of journalism. Intensive stuff, but fascinating. I’ll try and write more on it soon.
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Question: What happens when an organisation tries to control over how it is talked about in the blogosphere by force? Answer: PR carnage.
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As journalists, we can meet this challenge. We can compete. We always have. We have competed against other journalists for exclusive stories. If new technologies are disrupting our business, we just need to use them to do some disrupting of our own.
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Making the Leap Beyond ‘Newspaper Companies,’ outlines a broad new vision for what newspaper companies must become if they are to survive in today’s heavily disrupted media landscape.
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This BusinessWeek.com slide show chronicles the Twitter saga up to now and offers a glimpse of some of the answers yielded by Baker’s experiment.
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on May 8-9, I looked to Twitter’s own community for help, asking the following questions:
• Is Twitter a fad, a feature, or a growing giant?
• How are businesses using Twitter?
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“The Liverpool Daily Post has today become the first newspaper in the UK to broadcast its afternoon editorial conference live on the web.”
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“the 25-44 year old segments have found more value in Twitter and started to ramp up usage.”
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The Guardian is considering implementing guidelines for journalists participating in online comment threads, its head of digital has said.
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