Friday, March 3, 2006

Photos, phones, blog-and-photo tools, video... what next? Even if I have learned how to make video turn itself 90 degrees, I haven't gotten into the whole photophone, flickr.com, photoblog trend... partly because of the hassle of getting my various older-model devices talking to each other. Looks like that the process soon be even easier to do for those in the market for new hardware. My aggregator just delivered this: Sony Ericsson Unwraps Blogging Phones. New handsets feature Google's Blogger app and built-in 3.2 megapixel cameras. [PCWorld.com - Latest News Stories] See also: Yahoo photos demo, Webshots community, Photo.net, Google video. Coincidentally, here is the Google video copy of Doug Engelbart's 1968 "mother of all demos," which included the first mouse, hypertext, computer teleconferencing and more (we talked about that the first week of class)... and here is an announcement of the Hyperscope Project, which plans to build contemporary systems based on Engelbart's ideas. 8:23:25 PM     Online publishing, blogging, newspapers & local news... Here are some recent RSS-fed items for my Web publishing class... An item from Tennessee barely missed being the one-millionth entry in Wikipedia, the user-constructed online encyclopedia. An entry about the Tennessee Commissioner of Financial Resources was created "within the same minute" as the designated millionth item... which is about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. Newsvine, subtitled "A place to read, write, and discuss the news," is now open to the public. Readers become "columnists," add stories and contribute to their online rank. I had a chance to look at the site a couple of months ago, liked what I saw, mentioned it here and added a few sample items. But I really didn't have time to get in the spirit of the thing. Its value should be clearer with more users, so I may stop in more often. But I should be spending more time at Knoxviews and Knoxblab too... I completely missed a discussion of a fire in my own neighborhood last month until a friend asked which building it was. And by then the remains had been bulldozed. US: The Best Blogging Newspapers. Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University, has launched a blog with his students called Blue Plate Special. Rosen's team has conducted a survey to find the US's best blogging newspapers amongst the country's top 100 papers by circulation. Their clear winner is The Houston Chronicle, "By a mile." [from Editors Weblog] (Also nicely written up at Corante's Media Hub and Jay's own Pressthink. This project is, of course, not to be confused with the more melodious Blue Plate Special on WDVX at lunchtime... bob) Why newspapers must enhance their online offerings. At his Media Café blog, newspaper designer and consultant Jeff Mignon points readers to a graph done by media consulting firm Outsell which shows the demographic differences of media usage. The results point overwhelmingly to the Internet as the preferred source of information presently as well as in the future. [from Editors Weblog] Speaking of blogs, if you're wondering how many there are, see this report from last month: "...on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - and 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created." (And, no, I'm not going to talk about spings and splogs... see the discussion of the report, including some examples of comment spam.) 12:50:24 PM

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