Lost Remote: ‘WSJ Live’ coming to Google TV, Roku and more
Monday, 7 November 2011, 13:07
“The Wall Street Journal’s video service, WSJ Live, has expanded aggressively beyond its iPad debut in September. This week, WSJ announced it has inked distribution deals with Google TV, Roku, Apple TV and Daily Motion. Earlier, it expanded to Boxee …
David Higgerson: Cage-fighting kids: A handy reminder of the value of YouTube for journalists
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 10:06
“[As] we’re seeing with Twitter, the real value of [social media] sites emerges when the story stops being about the fact the platform is being used to share information and starts being just about the information again.”
Mashable: Why Burberry Is Now as Much a Media Company as a Fashion Company
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:31
"Burberry staged a 'Tweetwalk' earlier this week during which the London-based fashion house premiered every look on Twitter moments before the models hit the runway. … Part of the initiative’s success was driven by a series of “Tw…
Paul Bradshaw: The investigated ‘investigate’: Primark does Panorama
Friday, 17 June 2011, 14:39
"The [Primarl] video borrows all the language of investigative journalism (if not Panorama's production values) to 'follow the trail' of the investigation's producer in making the programme – before lapsing into promotional vid…
Journalism and social media whitepaper
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 14:52
Daryl Willcox publishing has today released a whitepaper about how journalists have adapted to the rise of social media over the last five years, which I wrote for them.
The report is aimed largely at an audience of PR professionals who want an insight into how journalists think about social media, and it is being published alongside a survey about how journalists use social media. I must say some of the findings of that survey surprise me:
out of the
922956 journalists surveyed, over 200 made additional comments – some scathing, slamming social media as a pointless communication channel to manage, and some pointing to the fact they are now dependent on these websites as news sources.
Other findings of the survey were less surprising:
The survey also found that little more than one per cent of respondents claimed they were using social media less than they were 12 months ago, confirmation that journalists reject the notion that social media may be a fad.
One of the great frustrations of working on this project has been that the topic is so fast moving that the paper is inevitably out of date already. In the few weeks since I finished writing this, there has been quite a lot of additional information and new examples that I would have loved to include:
- The Project for Excellence in Journalism showed how Facebook had become a critical traffic driver to US news sites in 2010, while Twitter was making less of an impact.
- The Oriella Digital Journalism study found that journalists increasingly use social media – but also that the majority still don’t.
- The sessions of the BBC Social Media Summit provided a great deal of insight into how newsrooms in Britain and around the world view social media.
There have also been some interesting case studies in journalists’ use of social media, most notably the critical role of New York Times journalist Brian Stelter’s (re-)tweeting in breaking the story of Osama bin Laden on Twitter. In Britain, we have seen Twitter play an central role in the debate about privacy injunctions.
Somewhat less dramatically, Stefanie Gordon’s images of the Space Shuttle Endeavour provided an excellent case study of how images published on social media sites rapidly becomes incorporated into news organisations’ output.
Inevitably, the best way to keep up to speed with developments in social media and journalism is by participating in the link sharing communities that social networking sites enable. So here’s one place to start: my feed of social media and journalism links.
TechCrunch: Yahoo Sells Delicious To YouTube Founders
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:25
"Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS. … The YouTube founders plan to work closely with the community…
Washington City Paper: Eyewitness Confirms: D.C. Cop Freaks Out Over Snowball Fight–Brandishes Gun
Sunday, 20 December 2009, 14:28
Interesting example of a local story with much information added to the local paper's account via material uploaded to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, blogs etc…
Guardian: Web providers must limit internet’s carbon footprint, say experts
Monday, 4 May 2009, 11:11
"With more than 1.5 billion people online around the world, scientists estimate that the energy footprint of the net is growing by more than 10% each year. This leaves many internet companies caught in a bind: energy costs are escalating because of their increasing popularity, while at the same time their advertising revenues come under pressure from the recession."
New York Times: Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 06:50
"Web companies that rely on advertising are enjoying some of their most vibrant growth in developing countries. But those are also the same places where it can be the most expensive to operate, since Web companies often need more servers to make content available to parts of the world with limited bandwidth. And in those countries, online display advertising is least likely to translate into results."
The Economist: Making the web pay – The end of the free lunch—again
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 14:42
"Internet companies are again laying people off, scaling back, shutting down, trying to sell themselves to deep-pocketed industry giants, or talking of charging for their content or services. … [Quite] how Facebook or Twitter will be able to make enough money to keep the lights on for their millions of users remains unclear."
New York Times: Few in U.S. See Al Jazeera’s Coverage of Gaza War
Monday, 12 January 2009, 09:38
"Al Jazeera said that since the war started the number of people watching its broadcasts via the Livestream service has increased by over 500 percent, and the views of videos on its YouTube channel have increased by more than 150 percent."
FT.com: Rival forecast to catch YouTube
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 08:41
"Hulu, a video site showing only professional TV shows and movies, is forecast to draw level with Google’s YouTube in US advertising revenues next year. "
Teaching Online Journalism: Why the Las Vegas Sun is so great (Part 2)
Monday, 22 September 2008, 07:53
"It’s not only [the 988 pixels wide] size that sets Las Vegas Sun video apart; it’s the options. Download a version for your iPod. Or download the HDTV/720p version and watch it really big in your living room. … Subscribe to videos (or photos) via RSS (lots of options there). And yeah, they’re in iTunes. And on YouTube."
Independent: VideoJug is the anti-YouTube
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:16
Andrew Keen: "VideoJug is the anti-YouTube. Its editorial staff rejects 90 per cent of the content submitted, and includes only a small proportion (currently around 3,500 videos) of user-generated content. In contrast to videos of gurgling babies or dancing dogs, the meticulously screened content on VideoJug has real editorial value."
