- The Online Journalism Handbook: How to Write for the Web
A guide written by the pioneering usability experts Jacob Nielsen and John Morkes famously said this in 1997, 12 years ago:
Make your writing concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective.
A summary of the article:
- Users …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: A simpleguide to making money
It is hard for a blogger to make money for living. As per the Knight Digital media Center, to make $36,500 a year, an average salary for a journalist, you'd need to earn $100 a day on your site. At $10 CPM (unlikely, giv…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: seven successful Video blogging models
As you very well know, online video, especially news video is very big. So big that Youtube, which Google bought in 2006, now accounts for more than a quarter of traffic to all Google-owned sites.
So, what types of Vi…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: A simpleguide to professional blogging
An average blog in the Technorati Top 100 blog list is at least 33 months old. This guide to professional blogging is based on Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008, a result of a survey of over 1000 bloggers in 66 …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Journalists who became successful online media moguls
Six journalists stand out as people who saw the future in online publishing before anyone else, started out on their own as have ended up with sizeable new media fortunes: These 6 people are: Josh Marshall, Ariana Huffin…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Basics of online reporting
Let's start with the fundamentals:
The 4 timeless tenets of the Link Economy
Link Economy is a term given by Jeff Jarvis, a blogger and professor of journalism, and denotes the linking nature of the internet and how …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Why Journalists must blog
There is no other way to go about it, so here goes: as a journalist, you must blog to see how humbling, educating and eventually beneficial this is going to be for your career considering the always-on, online, always-up…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Citizen Journalism Basics
Here, we will look at how expert journalists have defined and explained citizen journalism:
Who is a citizen journalist?
Anyone who cares to report about what one sees happening. In words of journalism Professor Jay Ro…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: 10 things the online journalist must know
These are the days of the internet, which will make or break many a journalist's long-term career prospects. The online news medium is noted for its speed and catchment area - for example, a breaking news appears fastest…
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- Online Journalism Handbook: The Best quotes for Journalists
This set of quotes are divided in three parts, and the idea is to look at journalism through four diffrent lenses: online journalism (the future), what is bad with meaas media (the mess), what is bad journalism (past) an…
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- What will you miss the most when newspapers are gone?
Even with all the revenue-side problems, newspapers will be around for a while until technologies like e-ink and better e-book readers, mobile reading experience become affordable and ubiquitous.
So, what will miss mo…
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- Which among these is the best news business model?
Let's put the hive mind to work on this one. One thing is certain: the print-based model is in trouble.
Choose from the following 14 news business models:Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appl…
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- Who is most useful new media guru?
With the boom in blogging, the internet is teeming with genuine experts and self-proclaimed experts.Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home services, cars, money and more.❤ If you like…
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- What print media business will you miss most?
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- Which media brand will you miss most?
The traditional print-based news business is in trouble. Readers are moving online. In 2009, many big name media brands in the United States are feared to bite the dust.
Which ones among these following big media bran…
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- How the internet is covering the Obama inauguration
The Obama Inauguration will start on January 20, 2009 starts at 11:30am Eastern Standard Time ( 8:30am for West Coast United States, 4:30 pm UK time, 9:00 pm Indian Standard Time) and will cost upwards of $170 million.…
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- Why do they censor good movies?
I am watching "Apocalypto" on Star Movies and the stupid beasts have censored the fine movie, destroying much of the visceral impact of the story.
No slashed throats.
No head severed.
No grave bodily injuries.
The…
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- Gaza Conflict: Israeli casualties vs. Palestinian Casualties
The image is via Information Aesthetics and puts the terrible conflict in perspective.
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- Bihari man developes silencer-cum-filter for noisy gensets
Virendra Kumar Sinha of Motihari, Bihar got tired of constant complains from his neighbors about his noisy diesel generator, a scourge in power-started India.
As a result, Mr. Sinha spent 6 years to develop a unique …
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- Ghazini: Yet another mindless film
Watch Ghazini only if you like the over-the-top, highly stylized violent movies from South India, Compared to the hooplah with which "Ghazini" was launched, you would have been forgiven to be hoping for a 'meanigful' fil…
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