Category Archives: New Media

Thomson Reuters releases new version of semantic tagging tool

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Thomson Reuters has released a new version of its semantic tagging tool Open Calais along with plugins for several blogging and content management systems. The new version of the software, which allows web publishers to automatically add metadata indicating the people, companies, places, events mentioned in their stories, was unvielled at the SemTech 2008 conference in [...]

Google Maps mashup, Open Calais tagger and Adobe Air toolbar take Telegraph Developer Weekend prizes

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Philip Skinner of onlinegalleries.com won the first prize at the web developers’ competition held by the Telegraph this weekend. Skinner’s winning entry, which netted him £600 in vouchers for Apple products, was a mashup that combines YouTube videos and Telegraph.co.uk news stories on a Google Map. Mark Ng (a consultant to PressGazette.co.uk and the creator of the [...]

Media critics look at online Virginia Tech coverage

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For a second day, there is much analysis from bloggers and media commentators about the online coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. Canadian journalism educator Mark Hamilton says it would be wrong to describe the Virginia Tech story as just another “victory” for the development of citizen journalism. We’re well beyond that stage, he suggests. “What yesterday [...]