links for 2007-06-06

Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 13:21

• Howard Owens: Hyperlocal is just a fad, but what the word represents is nothing new
  “Hyperlocal journalism is just a fad term for what good community papers have been doing for hundreds of years. It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein.”
  (tags: hyperlocal journalism newspapers)
• I’m Simon Dickson: Puffbox web app nails murder suspect
  A wanted man was arrested following a tip from someone who had seen him on Sky News’ interactive crime map.
  (tags: puffbox skynews maps journalism)
• onlinejournalismus.de: Tagesspiegel, Relaunch
  German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel releaunches online. Before and after pics.
  (tags: online design)
• Shane Richmond: Putting the ‘ahhhh’ into RSS
  “[T]he first half of My Telegraph, community, was about bringing blogs to people who had never tried them before, so the second half, personalisation, is about bringing news feeds to novices.”
  (tags: rss newspapers telegraph mytelegraph community blogs personalisation)
• Journalism.co.uk:: SA: New York Times to launch CityRoom multi-media local news site
  More about City Room at the New York Times.
  (tags: nytimes journalism)
• Journalism.co.uk: Freelance reporter as video game hero
  “Video games could be used to train the journalists of the future, according to the developers of one upcoming title that casts the player not as an action-hungry warmonger, but as a freelance reporter.”
  (tags: journalism videogames)
• Editor & Publisher: Papers Still Dominate Local Online Ad Spending
  “Newspaper Web sites might reap the most from local advertisers spending online but a new study reveals online newspapers are losing share.”
  (tags: online advertising classified newspapers)

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