Well this doesn’t get you exactly there, but László Kozma has a Perl script and some analysis that points you to the top sentences on the Web that start with “How can I” using Google. Fascinating stuff.
Category Archives: Journalism, norgs, the future of news
ProPublica relaunch includes ‘future of context’ ideas
You can read about it at Nieman Journalism Lab.
Check out some sample reports:
ProPublica: Buried Secrets: Gas Drilling’s Environmental Threat
Related:
Putting together a lightweight HD video recording rig
I have a Kodak Zi8 recorder that I am planning to use to upload videos to YouTube with. It produces fantastic quality videos, but more important, it has a stereo microphone jack, so that I can use it to record live music or interviews with a high degree of audio quality.
Tim Conneally, over at Betanews, has put together a great guide to putting together a kit that will fit into a 15 inch notebook sleeve.
Based upon its recommendations, I have already purchased a Dynex Video Bracket.
Next steps are two by a microphone and lastly, a lamp. I’m looking for recommendations if you have them.
Mat Schaffer has offered, based upon personal experience, the SP-BMC-1 from Sound Professionals.
My price limit is up to the Rode VideoMic being used by Tim Conneally.
Fran Guidry recommends the SP-SPSM-15 from Sound Professionals and the (discontinued) AT825 from Broadcast Production & Microphones.
A shocking source of TV news coverage of the oil leak?
G4 and Kevin Pereira: “BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife”.
G4, the games channel. Yes, the games channel!
This makes sense in a world where the most informative pieces of national news journalism are coming from a music magazine and nightly comedy show doesn’t it?
hacks/hackers teaming up with Mozilla on a course
This sounds like a fantastic opportunity for programmers who want to become familiar with journalism, and journalists to become familiar with programming.
Recent Journalist-Programmer reads
O’Reilly Radar: Mike Loukides: “What is Data Science?”
Media Shift: Marc Glaser: “Why Journalists Should Learn Computer Programming”
Rafe Colburn: “Why journalists should learn to program” – with a suggestion on what really to be digging into – and I agree.
Resource: Hacks/Hackers
Google News adding human editors to promote serendipity
Good move on Google’s part. Nieman Journalism Lab: “Google News experiments with human control, promotes a new serendipity with Editors’ Picks”
Mashable: “Google News and Why Human Editors Still Matter”
Previously: Techmeme: “Guess what? Automated news doesn’t quite work.”
NPR covers Mark Horvath’s Invisiblepeople.tv
I try and spend some time each week serving lunch at Project H.O.M.E.’s “Women of Change” with other fellow CIM Volunteers. I’m engaging some of the folks who work at Women of Change into possibly trying a project along these lines. I think Mark Horvath is onto something by sharing these stories as raw as he does.
NPR.org: “Former Homeless Man’s Videos Profile Life On Street”
Reference Links:
Sean Blanda on Remixing the News
eMedia: Remix the News: “Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora”: “there is no service that adequately customizes content to my tastes based on previous reading”
A good read with some important ideas. The only thing close I can think of is Google Reader’s recommendations which are based upon my clicking activity in Google Reader.
One of the commenters in Sean’s post added some thoughts about ‘intelligent serendipity’. ‘Intelligent Serendipity’ will be all important if we intend to help people get the news they need to hear, but might not be aware of it.
Some links on ‘intelligent serendipity’:
Jeff Jarvis: “Serendipity is unexpected relevance”
Chis Anderson: “What would it take to build a true “serendipity-maker”?”
Mathew Ingram: “In defence of newspapers and serendipity”
Inside Guardian.com: “The Random Guardian”
Somewhere in here is the news experience of the future. Helping people connect with what they are interested in, and helping them connect with what they would (should?) be interested in, but just aren’t aware of it yet. Isn’t that the essence of ‘news’?
Roger Ebert, “Find out all you can, and see what you can do with it.”
Read Roger Ebert’s latest post: “The golden age of movie critics”.