Thursday, February 2, 2006

RSS feeds convergence... notes for symposium In case I get a chance to demonstrate RSS feeds tomorrow at the College of Communication & Information Research Symposium, I grabbed some items from a few feeds I subscribe to. "Media convergence" is the symposium theme, and I think RSS fits in nicely. With some help from RSS, newspapers are transmitting audio, bloggers are sharing citizen journalism and whatever else they want to write, television and radio stations are publishing text Web pages and sending out RSS updates...  and radio and television broadcasters have found a new way to reach their audience. (See my "What is Podcasting?" and "What is RSS?" links over on the left rail if you're new to those topics.) On to the aggregation... The first item is from RSS's primary evangelist: From Dave Winer's Scripting News I am definitely part of the publishing industry as I wrote in January. Every day I become more sure of it, and every day my distaste for the tech industry grows. What a bunch of greedy selfish control freaks. I never thought I'd see the day when I could point to Microsoft as an oasis of service, and help and understanding for users.... Via Editors Weblog: Spain: newspaper includes citizen journalism in its print edition. The Spanish paper El Correo has launched the country's latest and arguably most comprehensive citizen journalism project, integrating reader contributions into its printed pages. The paper will publish a two-page daily section entitled enlaCe dedicated to citizen journalism but will also mix content from the public into all sections of the paper. Journalism.co.uk says BBC News Interactive is set to launch a BBC wide editors' blog, with the objective of revealing the reasoning behind editorial decisions. Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive said the blog will help the media organisation fulfil its requirement of being "open and accountable" to its readers. He added: "It's a different world: we're more open about what we do. Even if we get it wrong it's good to have the conversation about why." From IRE's Extra Extra: Charities exploit vulnerable elderly. Jon Burstein of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviewed more than 700 pages of court documents and sworn statements involving two companies, as well as more than 1,500 pages of financial records obtained by the Attorney General's Office... J's Scratchpad pointed to What's Up?: This map of the world flashing news items reminds me a lot of the World as a Blog, which relates blog posts to their geographic coordinates. What's Up?'s time zone markings are really handy. From cyberjournalist, a question that won't go away: Are bloggers journalists?. David L. Hudson Jr., a First Amendment Center research attorney, takes a good look at the legal issues surrounding this and related questions and lays out the various legal arguments... Why media should fear the 'the worst of the blogosphere'. Slate's Jack Shafer says "It's not just the best of the blogosphere drawing away big audiences that the [media] need worry about...." From Steve Rubel, word of more "print" podcasts The New York Times has launched a free podcast summarizing the day's top stories. It is hosted by James Barron, a reporter with the Times. Right now the podcast is only available on iTunes. The Times has a new music review podcast as well in the iTunes store. Both are free. 9:07:32 PM

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