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4-Minute Roundup: The Rising Buzz of Location Services at SXSW

Mar 12, 2010 1:53pm

This episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at KDMC's website. It's also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web...

NPR, SiriusXM Internships Steeped in Multimedia, Social Media

Mar 12, 2010 8:35am

When you think about internships at media companies, you probably picture people fetching coffee, running errands, or worse. But some internships have taken a different tack, setting up specialized blogs, Twitter feeds and Facebook pages for their interns to help them understand new technology and spread the word about their...

9 Tools to Help Live-Stream Your Newsroom

Mar 11, 2010 4:12pm

"We'd like to write blog posts, but don't have time." That's the oft-heard lament in newsrooms. More and more traditional journalists recognize the benefits of blogging and social media, but many just can't figure out how to add them to their existing workload. I have a solution that seems to work...

Witness Creates Sophisticated Evaluation Tools for Video Impact

Mar 11, 2010 10:25am

Last month, Jessica Clark and I explored how various Public Media 2.0 projects are measuring their level of success in informing and engaging publics. We found that many public media organizations are struggling to measure impact -- and some are relying only on traditional indicators of reach, as opposed to...

Public Media Twitter Chat Aims to Foster Collaboration

Mar 10, 2010 11:07am

Public media workers and aficionados have a new routine: Every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, they log on to Twitter for Public Media Chat, which is using the #pubmedia hashtag. The chat, which started about a month ago, is the result of a discussion between a group of public...

Turkish Reporters Unite to Protest YouTube Ban

Mar 9, 2010 10:55am

The Turkish courts banned YouTube in May 2008, and now a new protest campaign launched by the editorial team of the Milliyet newspaper is drawing attention to how long the country has been prevented from using the website. The initiative, which was was launched on February 19, is not the...

What Are the Legal Implications of PleaseRobMe?

Mar 8, 2010 12:13pm

They know where you sleep, and now they know where you get coffee. That was the message driven home by the recently created website PleaseRobMe.com. The site aggregates Twitter posts sent when a person uses Foursquare to check in at a location -- meaning they're basically telling the world that they're...

4 Minute Roundup: Viacom Yanks Shows from Hulu; FT's Pay Model

Mar 5, 2010 4:36pm

This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit GoDaddy to learn more. Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the recent...

Can Social Media Chatter Predict Oscar Winners?

Mar 5, 2010 1:54pm

The biggest night in movies is two days away, and everyone has an opinion as to who will win an Oscar. While there isn't a proven formula that can tell us which film is going to win, a closer look at social media such as blogs and Twitter can provide...

5Across: Smartphone Etiquette, and Our Lack of Civility

Mar 4, 2010 7:50am

This episode of 5Across is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit GoDaddy to learn more. Back in 2006 on MediaShift, I asked an innocent question to readers: In what social situations should...

Are Photos by Aid Workers an Invasion of Privacy in Haiti?

Mar 3, 2010 7:30am

I recently spent a week in Port au Prince, Haiti, helping in a tent hospital set up at the airport. When I arrived back in San Francisco, I wrote about my experience in Haiti on my blog and posted pictures I had taken. I also posted photos on my Facebook...

The #Spill Effect: Twitter Hashtag Upends Australian Political Journalism

Mar 2, 2010 11:00am

Australia is gearing up for a national election in 2010 and a core group of influential political journalists in the elite Canberra Press Gallery are tweeting their way along the campaign trail -- and bringing an engaged public along for the ride. Press Gallery journalists are among the most active Australian...

Self-Publishing, Author Services Open Floodgates for Writers

Mar 1, 2010 10:26am

In 2001, the Wild Writing Women, a San Francisco Bay Area travel writing group of which I was a member, decided to self-publish a book of stories. Why? Because none of us could find a traditional publisher for what we thought was our best writing. We had skilled publishing professionals...

4 Minute Roundup: Google's Trouble in Europe; WAC vs. Apple

Feb 26, 2010 3:58pm

This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit GoDaddy to learn more. Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the trouble...

IOC Loosens Citizen Photog Restrictions, Launches Flickr Group

Feb 26, 2010 12:36pm

At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, social media was in its infancy. But in Vancouver, it sometimes seems to overshadow the accredited media. As expected, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are the first Games to truly be impacted by social media. As a result, one...