Online Media Cultist: Child Birth Goes 2.0
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"Apparently some way-into-web 2.0 dude live twittered during the birth of his child and then posted the pictures to Flickr." Why?
Category Archives: Flickr
BBC News: Tools we are using
Jose Baig and Carlos Ceresole are using a blog, Flickr, Facebook, Skype to report across the Spanish-speaking US for BBC Mundo
Invisible Inkling: Running for it: Covering an event with a cell phone and a point-and-shoot video camera
Ryan Sholin explains how he covered a local running race using video, Flickr, Twitter and a "a breaking news tumblelog".
Publishing 2.0: Memo to Google: Buy Yahoo!
Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely.
Hammersley on journalistic transparency
Ben Hammersley, who is in Turkey as part of an experimental BBC reporting project using social media tools, explains why he is producing behind-the-scenes material about his work to sites like YouTube, Flickr, del.icio.us and Twitter.
The modern journalist, Hammersley writes in a piece for BBC News Online’s Magazine, is “a multi-media creature, feeding the beasts [...]
BBC: New frontiers in journalism
Ben Hammersley: "[W]hile there's more news available to you, you're much less likely to know how it was made. ... I think it's easier, and more productive in the end, to do what my maths teacher was always forlornly begging me to do, and show my working."
Press Gazette: BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment
"Hammersley will file to his personal blog, he will upload photos to Flickr, video to YouTube, post snippets of text to the microblogging site Twitter, bookmark research on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us and network with people through Facebook."
CNET News.com: Flickr curtails German photo sharing
To comply with strict German age-verification laws, Flickr users in Germany have been restricted to images marked safe in its filtering tool.
New York Times: Snapshots That Do More Than Bore Friends
"Recently, photo-sharing sites like Yahoo’s Flickr.com and SmugMug.com have begun to let users add another dimension to their travel photos. Through a technology called geotagging, users can add G.P.S. data to their pictures"
BBC: How We Built Britain – Help: Adding photos
The BBC is looking for contributions for its How We Built Britain Photosynth project by encouraging people to upload their images to Flickr.
Virtual Economics: The people still known as the audience
Seamus McCauley: "The idea of a participative, read/write web2.0 is a myth - that most people simply aren't contributing, just consuming."
Some new ideas in online news design
Two design studios have over the past few days unveiled experimental projects that combine traditional news web site design with social media trends.
Oliver Reichenstein of Information Achitects Japan, who are currently working for a newspaper client on a developing a more” logical and intuitive unity between screen and paper news”, unveiled an reimagining of the [...]
A Whole Lotta Nothing: Flickr: Photos from oregonianphoto
The Portland Oregonian is posting all its photographs on Flickr. But is it a violation of the Terms of Service?
More news uses of Twitter
I have been keeping an eye out for interesting journalistic applications of Twitter. So far it has mainly been RSS mashups that send headlines and a web link to the service, which sends 140-character messages to mobile phones or instant messager applications.
Now that Mario Menti — the developer behind the BBC-to-Twitter mashup — has created [...]