Monthly Archives: September 2007
An opinion on media objectivity
Steve Outing’s recent column titled “Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers” has resulted in a firestorm of nasty e-mails and postings, according to Outing in his blog. An idealist would say objectivity arose from a desire to have an enlightened, … Continue reading
BlogOrlando is under way
The hallmark blogging event of Central Florida is under way here at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. near Orlando. BlogOrlando was put together by the rockin’ Josh Hallett. Huge kudos to Josh for putting together this event with awesome … the match date
https://journalistopia.com/madison-dating-sites/
Fresh off The New York Times ending its TimesSelect product, Jason Kottke has compiled an awesome list of gems from the newly opened New York Times archive. Among them: – The first mention of the World Wide Web in the … Continue reading
ONA Online Journalism Awards finalists announced
The Online News Association announced its list of award finalists today. Us Sentinalians made it to the breaking news category for coverage of the Feb. 2 tornadoes. Shoutouts to fellow Tribsters the Chicago Tribune and Newsday in the awards list … Continue reading
Don’t be a twit: Claim your newspaper name on Twitter
For those of you living under a Web 2.0-less rock, Twitter is the latest application to take the Internet by storm. Twitter allows users to send microupdates of 140 text characters or less to friends via instant message, RSS, mobile … Continue reading
Google News dumps duplicate AP copy
In case any of you missed the big announcement, Google News has decided to get rid of all those pesky duplicate wire stories hosted on newspaper sites from their search results. This means an AP story hosted on, say, the … Continue reading
Journalistopia online crime maps directory
Crime maps of all flavors are the rage nowadays ever since developer/journalist Adrian Holovaty created the now-famous ChicagoCrime.org in May, 2005. These days, everyone from independent designers to large newspaper companies are creating crime maps, causing severe headaches for police … Continue reading