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(Nov. 27, 2008)
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The awful stuff coming out of Mumbai is one thing, but here’s another: the Indian government asking for live Twitter updates to cease to protect their operations. For all sorts of reasons, this seems to be significant.
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(Nov. 27, 2008)
Journalism.co.uk
A look at where the news has unfolded. Please post additional links below. Journalism.co.uk will add in more links as they are spotted.
Washington-based blogger and social media expert, Gaurav Mishra talks to Journalism.co.uk in an interview published on the main page.
One of the few on-the-ground user-generated content examples, Vinu’s Flickr stream (screen grab above). Slide show below:
How it has been reported:
Photography:
Blogs:
Breaking news:
Social Media:
Microblogging:
Mapping:
Video:
Timelines:
Campaigns / Aid:
URL: http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/27/mumbai-online-the-attacks-reported-live/
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(Nov. 27, 2008)
Poynter Institute
by Amy Gahran
Twitter: A general search for “Mumbai” will collect everything. The hashtag #mumbai is slightly more selective. You can also read geotagged tweets originating from within 15 miles of Mumbai.
Social news sites and citizen journalism: Wikipedia had a current events page, 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Mahalo also is tracking the news. NowPublic has multimedia coverage. Ground Report also has coverage.
Blogs: A Mumbai Help blog has been set up, and several prominent Indian bloggers are participating. The community blog Mumbai Metblogs has lots of coverage, including photos and video. India Uncut offers blogger Amit Varma’s firsthand account of escaping the scene of an attack. Gaurav Mishra offers a roundup: Real Time Citizen Journalism in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. Maitri Venkat-Ramani also has a good roundup. On Global Voices Online, Neha Viswanathan posted a roundup of reports from several Indian blogs.
Maps: Here’s an embeddable Google Map of the attack sites
Flickr:Vinu has several photos from an attack scene.
In addition, here are some especially interesting efforts by pro journalists and news orgs:
The South Asian Journalists Association is hosting live discussions with journalists and experts in Mumbai and the U.S. about the terrorist attacks on hotels and elsewhere in Mumbai.
NDTV is streaming live Indian TV coverage.
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(Nov. 25, 2008)
Nieman Journalism Lab
The New York Times is happy to be your Facebook friend. An internal memo yesterday from Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy touted the newspaper’s “successful” advertising campaign on Facebook in the days following the presidential election.
Members of the leading social networking site could answer the NYT’s question, “What should Barack Obama do first as president?” and send each other gift icons with a fake Times front page with “OBAMA WINS” stripped across the top. Heekin-Canedy wrote:
The goals of the campaign were to increase our number of Facebook fans; raise awareness of NYTimes.com as an interactive news center; and engage the Facebook community in a conversation about the election outcome.
The Times took out a roadblock, or exclusive, ad on the front page of Facebook with a brief video of Obama and an invitation to submit comments. Heekin-Canedy said the ad was seen by 68.3 million people, and 34,000 comments were shared. The free gift was sent by Facebook users to their friends more than 400,000 times. And in the process, the Times nearly quadrupled the number of fans on its Facebook page — a figure the Grey Lady takes quite seriously:
We increased our number of fans more than three times in just 24 hours — from 49,000 to 164,000 — and in the process far exceeded our 2008 goal of 100,000 fans…Possibly the greatest success of this campaign, however, is that our fans continue to rapidly grow…into a powerful, free word-of-mouth network that we will leverage for future marketing messages.
According to Heekin-Canedy, the Times netted “4.3 times the value of our spend” on the ad campaign, though it’s unclear how that figure was calculated. In any event, it’s clear the Times is sold on the oft-debated marketing value of Facebook and now stands far ahead of other newspapers in building a presence on the site. The NYT’s page is not a great place to read the news, at least not yet, but there are some videos, a news quiz, and other features. The wall, with its off-topic notes and random musings, is kind of the digital equivalent of a newspaper’s margins.
There are at least nine other Times pages on Facebook, featuring sections of the paper — T Magazine (1,488 fans), Modern Love (71 fans) — and writers Mark Bittman (334 fans) and Nicholas Kristof(20,631 fans). I’ve also noticed some Times reporters, including City Room bureau chief Sewell Chan and reporter/blogger Jennifer Lee using the site more heavily in recent months. (Step it up, Jenny! Sewell has more friends than you now — 2,166 to 1,730.) Perhaps even more importantly, fans of Times features like obituaries and the crossword have started Facebook pages without any apparent encouragement from the newspaper. (more…)
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(Nov. 25, 2008)
Gillmor critica a las grandes corporaciones mediáticas que “dan la posibilidad al ciudadano de enviar información, pero no le hacen caso y si la utilizan no les pagan”, esto, afirma, “no es una conversación y de esta manera no se ayuda a la gente porque no hay un feedback”.
Sobre ¿Qué diferencia a un periodista de un ciudadano? Gillmor dice:
Mucha gente que no se llama a sí misma periodista y no pretende serlo hace algo que forma parte del periodismo y del sistema informativo. La clave está en encontrar las cosas que son valiosas vengan de donde vengan. Valiosas desde un punto de vista periodístico porque ayudan a la gente. Lo importante es ayudar a la gente a encontrar información veraz y saber distinguir lo útil de lo que no lo es. Esa es la función del periodista profesional en cuanto al periodista ciudadano.
Sobre si los periodistas se sienten amenazados por el periodismo ciudadano, responde:
El periodista debe ser un guía de la información que hay ahí fuera y eso supone valorar, puntuar a la gente y no infravalorarla. La comunidad hace una mejor información y la información es buena en sí, no depende de quién la tenga. Esto implica asumir la competencia. Ignorar a la comunidad es una técnica horrible, es lo peor que se puede hacer como periodista.
Respecto a la credibilidad de los medios de comunicación ciudadanos, Gillmor comenta que “uno de los problemas es que el consumidor no sabe qué creer o puede creer lo que es erróneo“. Los consejos de Gillmor pasan por aprender a ser escépticos, autocríticos e investigar.
Sobre la propuesta del Parlamento Europeo de hacer un registro de bloggers Gillmor afirma:
Creo que esta idea es un reflejo del intento de controlar lo que existe fuera de los medios. No estoy de acuerdo. Es una pérdida de tiempo, el sistema estuvo diseñado por algo, el número de blogs crece día a día y sería imposible y absurdo. Lo que quieren hacer los gobiernos es controlar la libertad de expresión y no deben. Creo que la respuesta a la libertad de expresión es una mejor expresión y no una no expresión.
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URL: http://www.periodismociudadano.com/?p=2713
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(Nov. 26, 2008)
Editors Weblog
A new training initiative between the BBC and the University of Central Lancashire is giving freelance journalists the chance to learn the newest skills in digital production, according to Hold the Front Page.
The program will give “30 freelance and broadcast journalists from the region the chance to get to grips with producing content for a number of platforms - online, TV, radio and mobile.”
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(Nov. 24, 2008)
Editors Weblog
A renewed effort by Danish newspaper publishers to stop search engines from linking to individual articles rather than a newspaper’s homepage has sparked controversy with blogging journalists in the country.
“Deep linking” is a blogger’s bread and butter–it’s how users are directed to their sites–and search engines, such as Google News, are facing pressure from the Danish Association of Newspaper Publishers who only want homepage links to “better control the user experience.”
Currently, Google News in Denmark lists and links articles without paying newspapers royalties. (more…)
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(Nov. 22, 2008)
Cnet News
Nielsen has released numbers for its estimates on the biggest and fastest-growing social media sites in the U.S. for the month of September, and there are a few surprises.
| 10 fastest growing social-networking sites for September 2008 | |||
| Site | Sept. 2007 (000) | Sept. 2008 (000) | YOY growth |
| Twitter.com | 533* | 2,359 | 343% |
| Tagged.com | 898 | 3,857 | 330% |
| Ning | 842* | 2,955 | 251% |
| 4,075 | 11,924 | 193% | |
| Last.fm | 850 | 1,879 | 121% |
| 18,090 | 39,003 | 116% | |
| MyYearbook | 1,422 | 3,056 | 115% |
| Bebo | 1,299 | 2,418 | 86% |
| Multiply | 592 | 941 | 59% |
| Reunion.com | 4,845 | 7,601 | 57% |
| *These Web sites do not meet minimum sample size standards. Projected and average measures for these sites may exhibit large changes month-to-month as a result. Source: Nielsen Online |
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The biggest social network in the U.S. is still News Corp.’s MySpace, Nielsen’s numbers found. But the bad news is that its traffic has only grown by 1 percent since September 2007, keeping it just under 60 million visitors, and second-place rival Facebook has grown by 116 percent in the same time period.
Rounding out the top 10 social networks are (in order) Classmates Online, a mainstay that gets little press but a lot of traffic; business networking site LinkedIn; Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces, which Nielsen says has shrunk by eleven percent since September 2007; Reunion.com; kiddie site Club Penguin, now owned by Disney; AOL Hometown, which the service plans to shutter soon; Tagged; and the AOL Community site.
Nielsen’s ranking of the fastest-growing social sites is a little more interesting. At the top of the list is Twitter, fueled by loads of press and tie-ins to coverage of the hotly contested presidential election, with 343 percent growth since September 2007. Following in second place is Tagged, which clocked in 330 percent traffic growth and which Nielsen says is most popular with the 35-49 age demographic. In third place is Ning, which is actually a service for creating community sites, followed by LinkedIn, music site Last.fm (owned by CBS Interactive, which publishes CNET News, Facebook, teen site MyYearbook, and then AOL’s Bebo. (more…)
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(Sept. 26, 2008)
Editors Weblog
According to ABCe, a non-profit organization that publishes studies on the media, The Guardian is once again the UK’s most popular news website. According to Brand Republic, The Times Online reported the highest growth, 20.1% month to month.
Guardian.co.uk reported 23.1 million unique visitors, a 12% monthly increase. The Guardian also has the highest number of unique users in the UK, 8.7 million.
Times Online reported 19.6 million unique users, an increase of 92% since August 2007. Also according to the report, of those users, only 6 million were based in the U.K. Editor in chief Anne Spackman claimed that the steady rise in TO’s “global audience is testament to the power of the Times brand and the strength of our coverage.”
Other websites in the UK that reported growth were, the Telegraph, with a year on year growth of 125%, putting it at 22 million unique users. The Independent’s website saw growth of 0.6%, now at 6.6 million unique users. (more…)
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(Nov. 17, 2008)
Journalism.co.uk
Sky News and Times Online have teamed up as part of a video-sharing arrangement between the sites.
Articles on the Times’ website will now feature videos co-produced by Times and Sunday Times staff and Sky News.
The shared content will focus on business, home and foreign news, and Sky News footage will be combined with analysis from the newspapers’ commentators, a release from Sky News has said.
Breaking news video from Sky News will continue to run on Times Online under the new arrangement, while some of the jointly developed footage will also appear on the broadcaster’s site.
The partnership project has been led Sky News producer John Jelley (above left), who has been on secondment at the Times since May. (more…)