Obsessive-compulsive hoarders of information now have a Web site to give them legitimacy: The CyberCemetery is an archive of government websites that have ceased operation usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report. This collection features a variety of topics indicative of the broad nature of government information. In [...]
Clay Shirky, a New York University professor, says we’re going through a revolution similar to the one the West went through in the 1500s after the invention of the printining press. Journalism will survive, he believes. Newspapers will not — not even on the internet. When someone demands to know how we are going to [...]
I don’t know how many people use the metadata to store photo cutline and credit information in your photo files. It’s the only sure way to make certain the cutline doesn’t get separated from the images. Unfortunately, its usually only the .jpg format that gives us the ability to store this information, and you have [...]
From Teaching Online Journalism: The best first step for a print reporter toward multimedia is audio. You already know how to conduct an interview, so you ’re more than halfway there. Now all you need is some decent audio gathering gear and Audacity, a free audio editor that works on both Windows and Macs. read [...]
