There has been quite a debate recently about the announcement by the Associated Press that they will protect their news by a code that will enable them to show who is using their content without paying for it. I am not sure everyone in the debate discussed the same thing, but in any case it [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Digital Tools, Photography on Dec 29th, 2008
Rumours, which are basically stories that are not, are a fascinating subject. Not only for journalists but of course for us too. Here is an anatomy of one, explained by Scott Kelby who unintentionally started it himself.
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Posted in Digital Media, Financing on Nov 28th, 2008
After I finished my post about Twitter I went “out” browsing and found a very interesting information here about
The Kaiser Family Foundation is starting a news service to produce in-depth coverage of the policy and politics of health care, both for an independent Web site and in collaborations with mainstream news organizations.
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I feel I should add a bit more about our Twitter feeds, an issue I mentioned briefly in my last post.
We started experimenting with Twitter very recently, after a complete redesign of Ceske Noviny and its sister publications (http://www.ceskenoviny.cz, http://www.financninoviny.cz, http://www.sportovninoviny.cz and for those still speaking only English at http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news) which took place over the [...]
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Posted in Digital Media, Photography on Jul 18th, 2008
I wrote a few posts about photographers and issues surrounding them, especialy rules. Today I found this page on a weblog that I visited for the first time. I loved it so much, I thought I will share the link to this page:
Is it difficult to be a Photographer
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Posted in New Media, News Agencies, Newspapers on Jul 10th, 2008
Jeff Jarvis made interesting comments here regarding new division of “labour” in the internet age, in this case among newspapers and Google (or somebody - Google is a metaphor). His point is that everybody should be doing what they are best at, and he considers that:
Newspapers are in the wrong businesses. They should no longer [...]
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