10,000 Words: How To Get The Most Out Of Your iPhone As A Reporting Tool

Posted on 3 May, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"Aside from the must-have apps, these are some practical tips and tricks — the dirty, simple basics for day-to-day reporting — that can help you get the most out of your iPhone as a reporting tool."

AllFacebook: 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

Posted on 4 February, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook."

ReadWriteWeb: How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic

Posted on 12 January, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"In the following 13 steps, we'll walk you through how we identify top blogs on any topic, how we quickly figure out what their most popular recent posts have been about, how we incorporate their blog archives into our knowledge about the field and how we find where else they are participating in conversation around the web..."

10,000 Words: 6 Ways to create a mobile version of your site

Posted on 7 October, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Now that newspapers have hired armies of developers to create mobile versions of their sites, old media is catching up to what most of the web has already known: the mobile web is where it's at. The good news is you don't need a team of developers to create a mobile-optimized version of your site or blog..."

NCTJ: Videojournalism for Websites

Posted on 6 October, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"A short training film offering advice and guidance to students, trainees and journalists on shooting news videos for websites."

Macworld: Geotag your digital photos

Posted on 6 October, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Good roundup of hardware and software solutions for geotagging photos on a Mac.

Waxy.org: Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk

Posted on 23 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"After recording last week's interview, I was left with a 36-minute MP3 ... Bracing for a good four or five hours of rewinding and writing and rewinding, I remembered that this is The Future! So, instead, I tossed the job over to the global anonymous workforce at Amazon Mechanical Turk instead."

BBC News: dot.life: Twitter, Qik, Flip – how to cover news?

Posted on 13 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Rory Cellan-Jones shows how he used Twitter, Qik and Flip to cover an Apple event: "A mobile phone with an instant video application can get you out of a hole when there's no alternative. But I'd be reluctant to go anywhere without the services of a professional, wielding a decent video camera. As I think you'll agree if you look at my pictures."

slewfootsnoop: Tracking what people say on Facebook

Posted on 10 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Murray Dick: "As things stand, I haven’t yet found a way within Facebook to keyword search discussions. But try the following advanced search string for an insight into what people are saying about the BBC: site:facebook.com/topic bbc"

FlowingData: 3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart

Posted on 20 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Flowing Data presents some alternatives to the hideous pie chart...

Google Maps Mania: Create Your Own Feed Maps

Posted on 19 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Feed Maps is a new API from Map Channels that lets users create Google Maps mash-ups from a number of different data sources. The data sources that can be combined in one map are; KML files, GeoRSS, My Maps, Tab-delimited text and Google Spreadsheets."