Is this the future of interactive, collaborative online courses?
Tina Brown’s new online vessel, the Daily Beast, has just launched, with the philosophy that means it is not an aggregator, but rather in Tina’s words, a site that ”sifts, sorts, and curates.” What this means is that it provides a variety of ways to intersect with a story, [...]
from the TED 2007 winners page
James Nachtwey’s Wish:
I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.
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Update:
TEDsters Jon Kamen, David Rockwell and Stefan Sagmeister [...]
Photographer James Nachtwey will be breaking a big story globally on October 3 — using his powerful photographs to share a vital story that the world needs to know about.
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Photojournalist James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war [...]
A story about blogging, journalism and education this week that reflects the grey boundaries of professionalism in the digital age.
Alana Taylor,
a journalism student at NYU, blogged about one of her classes on new media “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers)” for Mediashift, a pbs andKnight foundation backed blog on digital media hosted by Mark Glaser.
The original post [...]
In A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism, Jay Rosen of NYU’s Journalism programme defines citizen media as
‘When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.’
That got me thinking as always as to how this insight about the media might [...]
An interesting post today from charlie beckett about why news organisations are resistant to moving into the online arena that has interesting implications for education. Charlie argues that because editors typically see online as a drain on limited resources and dont see any incentives: “All the managers could see was a threat. This Online business [...]
To mark Memorial Day in the US, the LA times has put up a statistical analysis of the military casualties from the State of California to date of Bush’s ‘War on Terror’. Called ‘California’s War dead’, it provides a fascinating insight into who is actually doing the fighting, and of course the dying. The [...]
We are probably all familiar with maps of the world with the south pole at the top, or showing relative size per capita income or use of global resources etc: they act as an immediate visual paradigm shift in our perceptions in a way that simple raw data on a subject can’t match.
In the same [...]
Mashing up google maps and news events is a potentially killer app for delivering a better understanding of events on both a local and global scale. Ushahid is a very interesting site that was set up during the post election violence in Kenya to act as an incident reporting and tracking monitor for acts of [...]
traditional photojournalism in the form of the ’sunday supplement’ photo essay is under siege: many have seen the web as the saviour of the genre. but does this mean simply transferring an old model into a new medium, or does it need a complete re writing of the rules?
this thought provoking piece by stephen mayes, [...]
