Manual retweets are just self-promotion and Twitter embeds aren't journalism | Jeb Lund | Comment is free | theguardian.com Manually retweeting used to be the only option for passing on someone's message on Twitter - you used to literally have to cut and paste on the Twitter site, although Tweetdeck and Hootsuite, among others, offered... Continue Reading →
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Battle Cries - NYTimes.com The different styles and levels of excitement of commentators' goal announcements makes for a fun interactive. Not too difficult to replicate I would imagine; some fun to be had here around regional differences in nouns, for example. tags: nytimes innovation visualisation interactive A feast of takeouts from #DEN visual content meetup... Continue Reading →
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Verifying Social Media Content: The Best Links, Case Studies and Discussion | Groundswell tags:how-to verification BBC 'NewsLabs team' to drive innovation | Media news tags:innovation BBC Jill Abramson’s Ouster: Why Aren't Standards This High For Male Leaders? - Sarah Green - Harvard Business Review tags:HBR NYT Sarah Marshall — How to export a Twitter list... Continue Reading →
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Your Brain on Story: Why Narratives Win Our Hearts and Minds - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society "Neuroscientists published research showing the changes in neural patterns of volunteers after reading a narrative story based on real events. The researchers assigned subjects to read Robert Harris’ 2003 novel Pompeii, a piece of historical fiction based... Continue Reading →
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Reader Flow and theArticle Gateway I believe we spend far to much time faffing about making home pages look 'right' when much of our traffic comes to stories direct rather than from our shop window, so to speak. Therefore, of course I agree with this post (which also links to another worthwhile read on the... Continue Reading →
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∞ — Wearables versus there-ables. What if we’ve got... "What if we’ve got it all wrong?What if we’re not actually supposed to wear all sorts of technology on our bodies and on our clothes? What if we didn’t have to / weren’t meant to carry our technology with us as we moved around town?What if... Continue Reading →
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(Re)defining multimedia journalism — Changing Journalism — Medium This is the key for me. Immersive means I am lost in what I am reading/watching/hearing/experiencing. Immersive experiences rule. Take me somewhere I have never been. Show me something I have never seen. New digital tools every journalist should try - Knight Foundation I haven't used any... Continue Reading →
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Aron Pilhofer on data journalism, culture and going digital | Tow Center for Digital Journalism Interestingness " Right now, many newsrooms are stupid about the way they publish. They’re tied to a legacy model, which means that some of the most impactful journalism will be published online on Saturday afternoon, to go into print on... Continue Reading →
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Socdir | Your social media directory of tools. There are a lot of resources in this directory, from basic to complex tools, many of which are rated and assessed by users. Very handytags: tools social media directoryHeckta for OS X - photo magnifier Hecta is an app for OS X which magnifies photographs without pixelation or... Continue Reading →
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How we built Ampp3d in eight weeks "Most publishers give their staff massive desktop monitors to work on, using desktop software tools, and a CMS that works on a desktop. And then the majority of users view the output on a mobile. "tags: technology future+of+news ampp3d Why venture capitalists are suddenly investing in news -... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 