Converged|Media

Resources for the modern journalist. From Loose Wire

June 30, 2009 • 12:02 pm 0

About Converged|Media

Converged|Media is a public website containing straightforward guides to all the tools a modern journalist may need. It’s also the primary resource for courses and workshops on digital media, newsroom convergence, writing for online led by Jeremy Wagstaff.

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About the pages

Converged|Media is based on pages and posts. Posts will appear in chronological order in the main window on the left. They're time sensitive, posted depending on what workshop is taking place and what is being covered. Pages are static, and are listed here in this column. They're not time sensitive, and are mainly guides to doing particular tasks.

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  • Journalists Citing Wikipedia: Rarely an Option July 9, 2009
    Reuters has just published its handbook online. A smart move (declaration of interest: I’ve done some training work for Reuters. I’ve got my old dog-eared copy on a shelf nearby.) I posted (approvingly, but without comment) a retweet from Nieman...
  • An Index Of Blogging Clients July 6, 2009
    July 2009 Update: added BlogDesk. So far I've not been able to find anything apart from Windows Live Writer that works with WordPress page for Windows. (Ecto's latest release apparently does support it.) Blogging clients allow you to prepare posts...
  • Google and History July 3, 2009
    I had gotten excited about Google’s timeline search before, but hadn’t seen this: Google is mining not just text for the dates of more recent stuff, but everything, stretching back into the mists of time, culled from Google Books: The...
  • Facebook Wants to Be Twitter, While Twitter May Have to Be More Like Facebook July 3, 2009
    Here’s another appearance on Radio Australia’s Breakfast Club which is pretty much every Friday—around 1.15 GMT—and here are some links to the things I talked about this week. Here’s the audio of the segment (about 10 minutes’ worth). Facebook’s move...
  • The Gap in Michael Jacksons Online Death June 29, 2009
    This is a piece for my weekly Loose Wire Service column. I’m posting it here because it’s timely. That’s why there are no internal links in it. Michael Jackson is dead. You’ve probably heard that already. But where did you...
  • Googles Suicide Watch June 29, 2009
    I don’t really know what to make of this, but I occasionally trawl Google Search Trends/Insights to see what people are looking for, and whether they’re changing much over the past few years. This seems to me to be as...
  • Right Ears, Masked Passwords and Nail Printing June 26, 2009
    I have actually been appearing on Radio Australia’s Breakfast Club pretty much every Friday—around 1.15 GMT--for the past year or so, but don’t always remember to post the links to the things I talk about (or intend to; there’s not...
  • Nonsense Linking, Or the Rise of the Cheap Bot June 20, 2009
    I’m a big fan of The Guardian, but their auto-linking software needs some tweaking. It’s a classic example of trying to provide that extra value to data on the cheap. My argument for a while has been that the only...
  • Twitteran: We Should Do What We Do Best June 18, 2009
    Paul Lamb over at MediaShift asks: Is there still a need for vetting and fact checking of stories. Absolutely. But isn't that something a machine, building off our collective intelligence, could be trained to do far better than any one...
  • The Economists Secret: Its Limits June 18, 2009
    Interesting piece by Rafat Ali on paidContent.org quoting Michael Hirschorn of The Atlantic as to why The Economist is doing OK, while Newsweek and TIME are in free-fall: “By repositioning themselves as repositories of commentary and long-form reporting—much like this...

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