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An introduction to what we're talking about, from the Knight Citizen News Network :
Journalism 2.0
(you can order a hard copy if you'd like to pay for the book.)

Jon Stewart on the death of newspapers

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Final Edition Edition

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Keeping track of everything

Helpful New York Times article: Staying informed without drowning in data

CNN makes a run at AP

Who's hiring in the news media these days?
CNN.

You didn't think college radio was dead, did you?

Check out "College Radio Maintains Its Mojo" from Ben Sisario, writing in the New York Times.

Content and its Discontents

Virginia Heffernan, in The New York Times Magazine, tells us "Why new forms of media must evolve along with new technologies."

Odds and ends

Newspaper production syllabus from Central Florida Community College.

College Media Advisers schedule Fall 2008.

Check out Woodwing, a multi-platform publishing company.

Multimedia Text

Looking for a free multimedia textbook?

Schwanbecks' Doc

Here's a link to a documentary by Bill and Karin Schwanbeck.

LSC Disaster Exercise on WCAX

The Incredible Youth Vote

Raise your hand if you would let somebody else pick your boyfriend or your girlfriend for you.

"Air-raiding villages"

Here's what Barack Obama said:



Here's that statement in a McCain ad.

Narrator: "He says our troops in Afghanistan are... 'just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.'"

Sarah Vowell on Daily Show

Trauma videos

Katie Couric interviews Derek O'Dell.

Erin Sheehan interviewed on day of shooting.

Erin Sheehan interviewed the day after the shooting; note difference.



Photo manipulation

Here is the original photo

Here is a link that will take you to the doctored photo

WSJ on Digg

This link will take you to a thumbnail description of a Wall Street Journal story about Digg expanding at time when newspapers (which Digg ultimately depends on) are cutting back.

Youth Vote at DNC

Newspapers in College Publisher network

College Publisher (College Media Network) sites:

Louisiana State University
http://www.lsureveille.com/

Ohio State
http://www.thelantern.com/

Northeastern
http://www.nu-news.com/

Pennsylvania
http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/home/

UVM
http://www.vermontcynic.com/

Castleton
http://www.castletonspartan.com/

Middlebury
http://www.middleburycampus.com/

University of New Hampshire
http://www.tnhonline.com/

Keene State College
http://www.keeneequinox.com/

State-by-state list of links
http://www.collegemedianetwork.com/full.html

You're 16, You're Beautiful, and You're a Voter

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/opinion/06kamenetz.html?ref=opinion

And responses:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DEFD9153CF932A25751C0A96E9C8B63&scp=10&sq=voting%20age%2018&st=cse

Barack Roll

Found on WireTap: "When politics, rock and roll and video editing collide.

Youth Vote links

Time Magazine January 2008
The Year of the Youth Vote
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1708570,00.html

Time Magazine January 2008
Obama's Youth Vote Triumph
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1700525,00.html

Washington Post July 2008
The Year the Youth Vote Arrives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403414.html

New York Times August 2008
Getting Out the Vote, Keeping Up With Youth
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/arts/television/14lear.html

LA Times February 2008
The return of the youth vote
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-firstvote5feb05,1,1459190.story

Inside Higher Ed July 2008
Analyzing the youth vote
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/09/campusprogress


WireTap Magazine June 2008
Getting Out The (Rest Of The) Youth Vote
http://www.wiretapmag.org/elections2008/43605/

TPM Cafe, Talking Points Memo August 2008
The Incredible Youth Vote?
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/the-incredible-youth-vote.php
or The Century Foundation blog
http://takingnote.tcf.org/2008/08/the-incredible.html

Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxGooU55a6o


Salon May 2008
Will the youth vote win it for Obama this fall?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/29/youth_vote/

WireTap blog July 2008
Protecting the youth vote
http://www.wiretapmag.org/blogs/activism/43660

AlterNet (Michael Connery, the Nation) August 2008
The Youth Vote: A Matter of Access, not Apathy
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/94040/the_youth_vote:_a_matter_of_access,_not_apathy/

CNN's One-Man-Band Bureaus

The New York Times blogs about this.
CNN announced Tuesday that it would “double its domestic news-gathering presence” by assigning journalists to 10 additional cities across the United States. But the journalists will not work from news bureaus; instead, they will be stationed at local television affiliates and other office locations. Using inexpensive laptops and cameras, they will file stories for the Internet and report live on television. One “all-platform journalist” will be assigned to each city. The strategy reflects the increasingly portable and flexible nature of television production. Expensive bureaus with camera crews and satellite uplinks are increasingly being downsized by TV news divisions, in favor of so-called “one man bands”. CNN currently has 10 bureaus across the country, and will transfer employees from 4 bureaus - Atlanta, Chicago, Miami and San Francisco - to staff the new operations. Michael Rosenblum, the president of Rosenblum Associates, a consulting firm that helps convert TV networks to the one-man-band model, called it a “much more cost-effective way” of reporting. (NYT)

voting abroad; german kids!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/2275407/Germany-plans-to-give-vote-to-babies.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92442931

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3470938,00.html

iran
http://windowsxp-privacy.net/?id=198760097

kenya
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/17690/lower_africas_voting_age_to_16.html

youth rights
http://www.youthrights.org/voteproposal.php

J Web sites

From
Julie M. Freeman
Director of Student Publications
Baylor University
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http://www.jprof.com/
http://www.newsroom101.com/
http://www.editteach.org/
http://www.copydesk.org/

http://www.journalismtraining.org/action/home
http://www.regrettheerror.com/
http://collegefrontpage.com/
http://www.newspagedesigner.com/
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp
http://collegenewspaper.blogspot.com/
http://www.journerdism.com/
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/
http://www.splc.org/
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/
http://www.spj.org/


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New York Times political writer

Matt Bai

curriculum criticisms

From PBS's Mediashift

Google's anti-Second Life

Click here for Google's version of a virtual Internet community.

Free newspapers, free news

Poll finds news execs predict newspapers could be free within 10 years.
And here's a story suggesting WIMAX will replace cable and phone-line Internet. It's already in Korea, but three years away for the United States. Makes you wonder why.

E & P previews state of J-education

Podlicious interview with senior editor Joe Strupp, who looks at what J-schools AREN'T doing these days.

Uploading test

Below is a brief video uploaded to YouTube.
Here's how it worked on a Mac:
Open iMovie project.
Export
Compress Movie for CD-ROM
(If the file is very large, compress for Web)
Share
(This should let you save it as a .mov file in your Movies folder)
Save

Go to YouTube and sign in -- or establish an account.
Upload (yellow button on the right)
Fill in the form -- don't forget tags
Upload a video
Select a video to upload
Choose file
Upload
Once the video uploads, YouTube generates an embed code you can paste into your blog, thus:

Quinnipiac journalists break with school, go online

Check out this story in the New Haven Register about trouble brewing at Quinnipiac.

Cool new stuff

Bryan Murley is with the Center for Innovation in College Media.
He tracks new stuff and blogs about it.
Here are a few of his new favorite things:
A free timeline creator called dipity.
A witty audio slideshow from Eastern Illinois.
Here's something called Sprout that allows you to create multimedia packages. Murley says you don't have to learn Flash.

Charlotte Albright over in TVS sent me a link to www.amherstwire.com, a multimedia site maintained by j-students at U Mass.

Hello from Chicago

Today I'm at a conference in Chicago on GIS -- Geographic Information Systems -- to show off work by the Advanced News Writing class. They crunched lottery numbers and census data to determine that Vermonters don't follow the national trend of poorer people purchasing more lottery tickets than richer people.
You can see the story in this week's Critic. It's not online. Hmmm.
Investigative Reporters and Editors is a group that advocates using a lot of GIS in stories.

Video project options

Tentative teams:

Team 1: Josh, Keith, Blair, Emily C

Team 2: Emily H, Katie, Ben

Team 3: Aimee, Gwen, Allison

Play: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

An Earth Week event

Critic production night

"My Favorite Professor" (interview students)

Baseball: 1 p.m. April 25, vs. U. Maine Farmington

Softball: 3 p.m. April 23, vs. Castleton

Tennis: 1 p.m. April 26, vs. Green Mountain

Assignment for Tuesday, April 22

Video Critique:
Find two video offerings from two different newspaper Web sites and critique them on your blogs.
Include links so you can show us in class.
Video Project:
Propose a topic for a 1:30 video story.

"Dear Mina": Postcards from Germany

My cousin, Ellen Blais, sent me a stack of postcards and photos that had been in the Fort Wayne Williams family for decades.
Beautiful, old-fashioned German handwriting covered the backs. My favorite photo reads, "On a hot June day, with all the roses bluming." The photo shows a man and two women standing among brilliant white blooms, all scowling at the camera.
My favorite postcard shows a pretty, dark-haired girl named Anna, who writes to another Anna about her coming confirmation. I suspect the recipient was Anna Krueger, our grandmother. The date fits -- 1909. The girl was writing from Essen, Germany.
The writing on the "Dear Mina" postcard contains a couple of grammar errors; it seems to have been written in the United States, perhaps by someone who was learning German or didn't speak it fluently.
Viel Spass!

Good, cheap video gear

Canon makes a $160 video cam that is getting good buzz from multimedia folks:

Go to the Web site.

Posting Your Slideshows

The Soundslides Web site offers instructions on posting slideshows to a blog such as Blogger.
We will walk through both.
First, we need to create a free hosting site. Soundslides likes WebNG.com

Second, we will learn how to find the embed code.

I found these sites by googling the words Soundlides and Blogger. It took me to a forum. Warning: The info at the top is old and outdated.

Colleges doing video

From Brian Murley at the Center for Innovation in College Media:
Here is a list of school media sites that are working with video.

Want a job when you graduate?

Check out this post on the Innovation in College Media blog.

Wireless

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Wireless broadband access is now available in the Northeast Kingdom. Recent upgrades to the existing towers and a few brand new ones now allow residents of the Northeast Kingdom to get near-broadband speeds on any computer as long as they are within the coverage area. This service is provided by Verizon.
The first indicator that something was changing came last summer when cell phone customers in the Burke areas experienced an interruption in their service lasting nearly a week and when their phones started working again there was a different symbol on their screen. The towers were upgraded from standard digital, represented by a 1X on the screen, to an enhanced digital signal that appears as an EV on the cell phone screen. EVDO (Evolution-Data Optimized) is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals. This allows wireless Internet access where no cable or DSL service is available.
What you need to know: Verizon says connection speeds are between 600 Kps and 1.4 Mbps (Charter Communications offers speeds of up to 5 Mbps for cable modem users). The cost is $59.99 a month for unlimited use; it does require a 24-month contract with Verizon Wireless. The modems are either PCI cards, for laptops only, or they now offer USB modems that will work in any device that has a USB 2.0 port built in. Windows or Macintosh is fine, and you can move the modem from device to device depending on your wireless needs.
Who should be interested: 
This service is good for travelers, and for the rural resident who previously had no way of getting high speed internet at home. The cost is comparable to Charter's high speed pipeline service but is not limited to one location. You can take your laptop anywhere in the country and receive the same connection you do at home.

Fish story

Warning: Fish can be hazardous to you. The Vermont Department of Health says you should limit the amount of certain fish you eat because of mercury in state waterways. The following advisories are for anyone older than 6 except women of childbearing age.

Here's how you make money at this

Check out this story.

Slideshow Projects

Here are some sites that offer help with slideshows, and a list of the projects you are undertaking.
The projects are due on Thursday, March 27, on your blogs. I want to post them on the Critic Web site. Each slideshow needs to include 10 photos. Where appropriate, include a bit of text. The Math project needs three photos of each professor -- and I forgot to include Daisy McCoy, who returns (in May?) from her sabbatical. If you e-mail Daisy, she might be able to tell you what she's been doing and send you some pix.
Slideshow sites:
Pikasa (from Google)
Slideflickr.com ("Create and Embed Flickr Slideshows in 3 Steps")
Photobucket
Snapfish.
iPhoto (on the Mac).
Regards,
Dan

Tornado!

Toto, I don't think we're in Cabbagetown any more.

The Long Goodbye

Read this thought-provoking piece on the decline of newspapers.

The map that wouldnt work

I kept trying and failing to embed the videos in a Google map.
This morning, I think I figured it out:
You have to link to a URL, not the embed code.
Doh!


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CICM Projects

Team 30 ended up doing two projects at CICM '08 instead of one because we thought we needed a backup to the Ethiopian immigrant piece we were doing (we weren't 100 percent sure the main subject would show up as scheduled), and our backup turned out to be the better-done piece.

Naked Mole Rats:


Ethiopian Immigrants:

Sub-Saharan Nashville

Here's the first draft of a map showing three Ethiopian restaurants and an Ethiopian church in the Nashville area.
Hope to add pix and a few more details tomorrow.

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Liveblogging

Here's an idea: Take a laptop to an SGA meeting and live-blog it rather than take notes (you can use the live-blog posts as your notes).
Check out coveritlive.com, a free live-blogging tool.
Just make sure you promote the live-blog so people actually read it while it happens.

Nashville

Hey, multimedia storytellers!
I'm at the Nashville workshop.
I'll be blogging about it as often as I can.
My group is trying to tackle two stories: one about naked mole rats, and the other about an Ethiopian taxi driver.
But the best part -- there's no snow!

K-State rules

A multimedia tale from Kansas State
You could do something similar here.

Psst! Let's keep this anonymous

This New York Times story, which uses anonymous sources, is causing quite a stir.

A story from the Associated Press about "rendition flights."

Another AP story that appeared in the International Herald Tribune.

A Texas television station gets in on the act with "analysts say..."

CSM cites "analysts" but identifies them later in the story.

Where are you going for Winter Break?

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Broadband

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In-class Interactive Map Project

We will split into our teams and construct maps providing data about places in the Northeast Kingdom.

1. Using Google maps, select five of the following places:
Newport City
Barton
Island Pond (Brighton)
Lyndon
St. Johnsbury
Derby Line
Irasburg
Glover
Brownington
North Troy
East Burke
Craftsbury
Westmore

2. Using the Census Bureau's FactFinder service, find the following demographic data for each of the places you selected:
Population
Median age
Median household income

3. Go to the class server: smb://share1/eng3710
Select photos for each of your places and add them to your map. If you cannot find an exact photo match, just wing it.

4. Write a brief text story giving readers a reason to visit the places you selected. Imagine you are writing for the travel section of a newspaper.

Interactive map samples

New York Times
tbo.com has a Community News feature accessible through a map.
Another idea:
Calendar of events?

Map thoughts

A couple of ideas that use interactive maps to tell a story:

Winter Break:
Find 10 LSC students and ask each where he or she is going for winter break.
Take a headshot of the student.
Create pushpins for each on a U.S. map (or bigger), along with the headshot and a quote.
The "text" story becomes a story about hot Winter Break destinations.
Extra: Ask each one to e-mail you a vacation photo; update the feature when we return from Winter Break.

Dorm demographics:
What can you find out about each of the dorms on campus.
How many residents in each?
Male/female ratios?
Ages? Year in school?
Complaints to Public Safety?


Restaurant reviews:
Eat in pairs at restaurants likely to attract LSC students.
Assemble the reviews as a map along with directory info about the restaurants
address, phone number, days and hours of operation.

Restaurants and health:
Same group of restaurants as above, but list the health department scores.
Add Stevens Dining Hall and the Hornets' Nest.
Ask students: Would you eat at a B restaurant?

Thinking About the Future

A Wall Street Journal writer gazes into the crystal ball and tells us how we might get our news in the future.

Ahnold and McCain

You've got to read this article about Schwarzenegger endorsing John McCain.

"Pimp Your Blog"

Assignment for Thursday, Feb. 7: Create the coolest blog you can.
Play with design.
Use the customize button to add features.
Write a blog entry explaining the process you went through, and why you chose the things you did.
Best blog wins a prize.
Grades:
A -- Blew me away. Fun design, cool features. Extra elements such as pictures, audio or video.
B -- Good blog, good blog.
C -- It's okay.
D -- It's there.
F -- It's not there.

First post

The ENG 3710 class is creating blogs today. This is the first post.