Google Maps Mania: Government Cuts on Google Maps
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Several attempts being made to plot local spending cuts on a map, including crowdsourcing efforts by Channel 4 and the Guardian.
Category Archives: Channel 4
The Guardian: How live blogging has transformed journalism
"The reward is huge traffic spikes, hundreds of comments – so far in March, live blogs (including minute-by-minute coverage of sporting events) on guardian.co.uk account for 3.6 million unique users, 9% of the total – and the wrath of some traditional readers who clamour for a straight-up-and-down, conventionally written article. One blogger even described live blogs as the 'death of journalism'."
Wired: Meet Ben Cohen: The 27-year-old teenage millionaire
Ben Cohen: "Were I to start today, it would be so different. For starters, you don't really need to know or understand HTML in order to launch a website. Simply install Wordpress on some webspace, or if you can't manage that use Blogger or Typepad. There are thousands of customisable "themes" to choose from instead of the hours I spent every night coding tables and cells and frames. You can add applications doing everything from managing comments to automatically posting links to sites such as Twitter."
Press Gazette: Channel 4 funds investigative journalism web project
"The team hopes that Help Me Investigate will be one part of a "slow journalism" movement, joining even more sites that open government data and processes to the public such as They Work For You and Fix My Street."
Sunday Herald: Channel 4 Pins Its Hopes On New Media Mavericks
"4 Innovation For The Public - 4iP for short - a £50m war chest to fund ideas by "troublemakers" and "innovators" in the new media world, remains a key part of Channel 4's vision for the future."
Telegraph: Blogging: Change the world with the web
"[W]hen anyone can voice their opinions, how do you get noticed? If you're passionate about your message and want to change the world, how can you use the web to reach others who are as passionate as you? That's what Channel 4 is exploring. This week, the education team launched a new project, Battlefront, to find out how 20 teenagers in the UK are using the web to campaign about issues affecting their lives."
Times Online: BBC ready to help its rivals develop their programmes
"The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio."
Channel 4 News: Terror blog live
Channel 4 News liveblogged the 42-day detention vote in the House of Commons using CoveritLive.
Channel 4 News: The freedom files
Revealed: the stories they didn't want to tell.
Channel 4 News: Snowmail: Prince Harry in Afghanistan
Jon Snow: "One wonders whether viewers, readers and listeners will ever want to trust media bosses again. Or perhaps this was a courageous editorial decision to protect this fine young man?"
Channel 4 News: Snowmail: Harry’s tour ‘PR exercise’
PR guru Max Clifford's come out unexpectedly fiercely in criticising what he regards as an ill-thought out publicity stunt. "It just comes across, the whole thing, as a very, very calculated public relations exercise," he claims
BBC News: Channel 4 portrayal angers mayor
"Middlesbrough's mayor plans to complain to media regulator Ofcom unless Channel 4 apologises for branding the town the worst place to live in the UK."
Times Online: Channel 4 asks Emap about taking full control of Box TV
Channel, which bought half of Emap’s music television division in July for £28 million, is understood to have spoken to Emap executives about a price for acquiring the remaining 50 per cent stake.
Independent: Inside Story: Virtual visions
"The online alternative universe that is Second Life was supposed to offer myriad opportunities for media companies to showcase their wares. Chris Green takes a look at their differing fortunes "