Category: Media and Journalism
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Yahoo f**k up
Good stuff Yahoo, put a pic of Obama next to a headline about terrorism. I imagine the picture was added automatically because of the related keywords – but shouldn’t they really check it before it goes live? Update: Someone/something from Yahoo visits within 10 minutes. 25 minutes later and it still features on the main…
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The Media Elite
Hehehe.
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Wordle in newspapers
Well the Irish Examiner, after much pitching by me, was brave enough to implement wordle usage. I reckon it might be the first Irish paper to use it. I think it is effective. It draws the readers eyes in, and gives a sense of what the speech itself contains. What do people think? Is it…
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Tools of the trade?
I have assembled some of the tools I will be testing over the coming months. Here they are: Well, except the MacBook Pro, which has been the best laptop I have ever had, and is now over one year old. Besides it is an EeePC 901 (12Gb solid state, 8GB SD, 1.6Ghz Atom, webcam, mic,…
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Wordle in print
I convinced the powers that be in the Irish Examiner that a wordle cloud would make a good graphic to go along with Barack Obama’s speech. It will feature in tomorrow’s paper. I’ve not seen Wordle used in an Irish paper yet, but since I don’t look at print newspapers that much (I read them…
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Russia revises Ossetia death toll
Surprise surprise. I, along with many others, indicated recently that the alleged death tolls as high as 2,500 put forward by Russia were entirely without a basis in fact. Now, according to the BBC: Russia has issued new, reduced casualty figures for the Georgian conflict, with 133 civilians now listed as dead in the disputed…
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Journalists shot at in Georgia
An incredible piece of footage. Turkish journalists under fire in Georgia.
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Marlowe in Georgia
I have been reading and indeed listening with interest to Lara Marlowe’s exploits in Georgia. The telephone interview with her is up on the Irish Times website. The IT has recently gone down this route of interviewing their own journalists in various locations. It certainly adds value. But could she be doing more? I’d like…
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NY Times fuck up
From the NY Times today: The owner of the Xinjiang Kashgar Restaurant near the main Olympic venue said he shut down Tuesday [of last week] after repeated visits from officials who cited health concerns. He said several other Muslim restaurants nearby had received similar visits. The owner, a Uighur, spoke on the condition of anonymity…
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Jon Stewart on the Obama New Yorker