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VillageSoup.com acquires competing weekly newspapers in vindication of online model (with AUDIO)
The owner of mid-coast Maine's legacy weekly newspapers has sold out to the man who pioneered VillageSoup.com, a learn-share-shop local online news community which is developing its platform as open source. The seller will adopt the platform at its Alabama newspapers.
Jun 17, 2008, 15:38
In web and multimedia
Navy electrician tired of closed government, starts St. Louis suburb news blog for 'advanced citizenship on the local level'
He was age 37, with a five-year-old daughter, four years of honorable Navy service as a fleet electrician, and a sense that he didn't want to spend the rest of his life installing cable and alarm systems. So Harold John Moyle started a blog for Overland, Missouri.
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Mar 10, 2007, 14:47
In web and multimedia
Rocketboom-er Andrew Baron eschews journalism label and talks about expansion of daily video blog in an MGP interview
Andrew Baron, the co-owner and founder of Rocketboom -- an Internet-based daily three-minute full-motion video blog that is testing the bounds of news and journalism -- talks about politics, facts, story selection and sustainability in a Media Giraffe Project print and audio interview. (MGP AUDIO LINK) / (ALSO SEE May 11, 2006 NPR report)
May 14, 2006, 10:27
In web and multimedia
Austrian Thomas Marban creates news headline aggregation site PopUrls.com; traffic growth shoots up in two months
Austrian Thomas Marban has created the grandaddy of all news aggregation websites. Called simply PopUrls.com (Popular URLs), Marban's site is a single page which continuously pulls headlines from 19 other information aggregation sites -- including still and video pictures and audio. It's puts all the headlines on one page -- all hotlinked. The site went live in March 2006 and it's traffic is also exceeding most of the underlying aggregators.
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Apr 24, 2006, 10:02
In web and multimedia
Andrew Rappaport: Why does a venture capitalist back a non-profit foundation run by 20-somethings? Answer: the future of video
Veteran technology investor Andrew Rappaport says he donated money to a Massachusetts foundation that has developed a Web 2.0 browser for managing Internet video on the user desktop because that's how the young creators of the platform wanted it. But there's a longer story -- about the future of web video, and the challenges facing mainstream media. Rappaport explains in a 16-minute audio interview. ----- >
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Apr 9, 2006, 19:54
In web and multimedia
Worcester, Mass. school buddies create "Democracy Internet TV Platform" -- a video web browser; like Netscape in 1990s?
School buddies have created an open-source video web browser which provides point-and-click management of TV-style downloads just like Netscape introduced the graphical web in the mid-1990s.
Mar 4, 2006, 07:59
In web and multimedia
University Channel's Donna Liu switches from soundbites to the rich context of full-length university events
As she likes to put it, Donna Liu spent 21 years of her life "chopping people down to sound bites" as a producer at CNN, the U.S. cable news network. Now she's taking a different approach -- putting U.S. university and college lectures on the Internet -- full length, video and audio.
Feb 22, 2006, 14:14
In web and multimedia
Internet law expert at Harvard launches web site using editors to continuously judge "best of" web topics
Working with $200,000 in seed investment from a venture fund he helped found, a Harvard University expert on Internet law is launching a "best of" topical web site service. John G Palfrey Jr. speaks with Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore about Cambridge, Mass.-based TopTenSources.com in a downloadable MP3 interview conducted Jan. 6, 2006. The site is using about a dozen editors to continuously evaluate and link to what they regard as the 10 most useful website in a series of topical areas -- using RSS feeds to automatically update their daily contents. Palfrey is a clinical professor at Harvard Law School and director of its <a href=">Berkman Center for Internet & Society. DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO (8M, 17 mins.) / PROFILE /
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Jan 7, 2006, 00:02
In web and multimedia
PROFILE: Jonathan Rintels of the Center for Creative Voices
The Center for Creative Voices in Media, established by Jonathan Rintels in 2002, seeks to give a voice to independent voices, or those who are not a part of what Rintels calls “the concentrated and consolidated media.”
Dec 21, 2005, 00:08
In web and multimedia
UK journalist cited for pioneering efforts to teach print reporters how to manage multimedia presention on the web
British journalist David Dunkley Gyimah has "singularly built a broadband magazine network" according to Jonathan Roberts, executive director of TV Producers Online in London. Gyimah's eight-day program converting print reporters ot multimedia journalists has been cited by J-Lab's Batten Awards at the University of Maryland.
Dec 19, 2005, 09:42
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| TEAM: Who is the Media Giraffe Project? |
| ABOUT US: Website, book, film spotlight "above the crowd" individuals fostering democracy, community in media |
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| MGP teams with Yahoo for April 30-May 3 convening of journalists and technologists |
| CONFERENCE: What will happen when only journalism is left? Aug. 7-8, Washington, D.C. |
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| AUDIO/VIDEO: Multimedia learning resources from The Media Giraffe Project |
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| MGP2006 alum offered blogger seat in Libby trial courtroom -- seeks advice; AP is carrying coverage |
| NYU students and Jay Rosen judge "best blogs" among U.S. newspapers over 100,000 circulation |
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| Institution vs. infrastructure: The question of ProPublica and reaching to the local level, too |
| Knight Foundation unveils $5-million effort to seed innovation in web-based local news; may invest in for-profit ventures |
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| LIST: New resources chart growing number of local online journalism efforts |
| McGill offers seven points of advice about citizen journalism |
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| A-Democracy Futures |
| Dump old consultants, embrace "netroots," say Armstrong/Zuniga in "Crashing the Gate" book |
| POLICY: Annenberg study finds public's use of Internet for politics surges |
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| A-Education & Training |
| AUDIO: Media literacy hits the real world -- lessons from Boston English |
| Despite federal law, most students unaware today is "Constitution Day"; resources |
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| ETHICS: Cleveland editor draws line at blogger contributing to congressman's opponent |
| Independent news website NewsDesk posts statement of journalistic principals from editor/owner Josh Wilson |
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| Temple's Renee Hobbs developing handbook on copyright fair use |
| Conyers, Hall ask Bush administration to withdraw Balco subpoenas of Chronicle reporters |
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| VillageSoup.com acquires competing weekly newspapers in vindication of online model (with AUDIO) |
| Daily Kos founder critical of media in appearance at law-school alma mater |
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| A-Ideas-Trends-Innovation |
| AUDIO: Crowdsourcing in Orange County: the the audience steps in |
| MIT gathering considers: Can participatory media seed participatory democracy? |
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| A-Journalism Futures |
| Four views on journalism's future -- from outside the United States |
| Duke hosts "next newsroom" gathering for 60 |
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| A-KEY ESSAYS |
| Oreskes urges journalists not to commit professional suicide out of fear of dying |
| ESSAY: "Fortune" editor nails dilemma for media: Will the public pay for what's good for it? |
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| A-KEY QUOTATIONS |
| Clark: Time for new "stewardship" in newspaper executive ranks? |
| QUOTE: James Carroll on a free press and the communal self-awareness that makes democracy work |
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| A-Multimedia & Video Innovation |
| Atom Films seeding video downloading market by offering to pay for short film production |
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| A-Ownership, governance & management |
| A new idea for newspaper ownership -- tap the reader co-op |
| FCC's alleged quashing of 2004 draft study which boosted local-TV ownership criticized by Sen. Boxer and media activists |
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| A-Podcasting & Audio |
| Some 80% of students have device capable of playing downloaded audio files |
| AUDIO: Four editors discuss future of newspapers; danger of controlling pipes and content |
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| A-VERBATIM-Interview Q&As |
| Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman on self-censorship, raising questions, and who is really 'advocacy journalism'? |
| Founders of a Vermont community/news website explain how it works and why they set it up |
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| Broadcasting/ Low Power FM |
| Regional radio content-sharing network under development for Pacific Northwest, Lawson says |
| Legal wrangling continues over whether Radio Free Brattleboro (Vt.) will return to the air |
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| Cable Local Access (PEG) |
| The People v. Television: How Comcast is using cable to strangle democracy |
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| Community wireless |
| RESOURCES: Washington attorney (Jim Baller) provides comprehensive email, links on community wireless issues |
| Wi-Fi should be free |
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| Conferences / Events |
| Networked Journalism Summit underway in NYC -- about 200 attendees |
| CONFERENCE: "The New(s) England Revolution" on April 7 at UMass Lowell kicks off launch of N.E. News Forum |
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| Entertainment Industry |
| Studios scramble to prevent Net piracy |
| Copy, right? |
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| Internet-Advertising |
| The chaos scenario |
| About face |
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| Internet-Privacy-Online |
| Google resists government subpoena for search data, but Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft comply |
| EU to survey citizens on data privacy with website form |
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| Internet-Technology |
| Labels appear faint-hearted on CD copy-protection in U.S. market |
| Both webcasters and label look to court to settle royalty fees |
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| Music-Future |
| KMPG study says piracy can be turned to labels' advantage |
| Artists, labels finally start teaching about "stealing" |
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| Online News Services |
| Times to Offer Readers a View of Stories by Competing Papers |
| 'New News' retrospective: Is online news reaching its potential? |
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| Regulation: FCC and the courts |
| Even Al Gore can't get programs on cable giant's network, claims the Center for Creative Voices |
| Imminent replacements at FCC could impact television content, "pro-family" leaders say |
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| Research / Demographics |
| Trade group says newspaper circulation is rising worldwide |
| Univ. of Wisconsin study find election coverage almost non-existent in Midwest TV markets |
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| Resources |
| Briggs' downloadable book is survival guide to multimedia journalism |
| Website lists links to Allied Media Conference attendees -- mostly progressive, grassroots organizations |
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| Trackbacks/MGP in the news |
| AP reporter cites MGP's Densmore in story about local online news sites in New Haven, San Diego |
| Nigel Beale links to MGP interview with Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive project |
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