Great Search for Food (or Google) Lovers: Google with Recipe View
It seems like Google is never out of ideas to make Web-searching more interesting and intriguing. The following video shows how to use Google’s recent addition, Recipe View to search recipes for any keyword you type. The search filter can narrow down the results with ingredients, cook time and even amount of calories per serving. […]
Chapter 6: Visual Storytelling with Photographs
“Show, don’t tell.” Journalists are told of this phrase many, many times. Rather than describing the scene of news happening, it is better to find ways to take the audience to the scene. Photographs has been the most effective way to connect the audience with what the writer actually saw, and has evolved the most […]
Chapter 5: Going Mobile
In New York Times in 2009, John Markoff wrote “the four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real world.” The mobile technology already has evolved enough to create a whole new field in journalism: mobile reporting. Due […]
Windows? Apple? Why don’t you try Linux?
I am a geek. I love electronics. When I have to buy an electronic device, I spend days and nights to research about each product to come up with the best one. I also like finding tricks and gimmicks to make things work better or just look cool. Although these temptations and attempts often came with […]
Secretary Clinton: The Internet Has Become The World’s Town Square
In the midst of criticism on Egyptian government‘s restriction to internet access during the recent protest, United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said how the internet evolved to be the hub of the world’s information traffic, and how it transparently liberates people around the globe to voice their opinions and ideas. She also said, […]
Chapter 4: Microblogging: Write Small, Think Big
Microblogging recently exploded in popularity along with Twitter, a microblogging website where users can post updates of their ideas or events in 140 characters. It is easy to post or follow on microblogging and the contents can be used in many ways: by email, mobile device, etc. Using Briggs’s analogy, if blogging started as an […]
Chapter 3: Crowd-Powered Collaboration
In this chapter, Briggs discuss about new reporting methods that are being paid more focus in the U.S.: Crowdsourcing, open-source reporting and pro-am journalism. Crowdsourcing Also known as distributed reporting, crowdsourcing is sourcing of the large crowd of communities gathered within the internet, that often outperforms professionals. For example, Mechanical Turk by Amazon.com, Image Labeler […]
Chapter 2: Advanced Blogging
Blog has become an essential tool for communication in my professions: school staffs, reporters, etc. People use blog to throw out their ideas in the pool of internet, and have their contents examined by the ever-growing crowd. A successful blog would be dominated by the audience, rather than by the writer. The writer would facilitate good […]
Chapter 1: We’re All Web Workers Now
With quickly changing technology and the world of journalism, we should be knowledgeable of how to utilize what’s available to us to benefit the best from them. In the first chapter of “Journalism Next,” Mark Briggs, the author, guides through basic technological terms and jargons that are essential for journalists. Beginning with briefs on etiquettes, how it […]
Pursuit of Eyeballs
>In this article regarding the revolution of news media and the media convergence, Joel Achenbach lists several examples of how current media emphasizes on page views, and how some utilize tricks to enhance them. He uses a satirical voice to strike on the quantity-over-quality trend of the media, that consider heavily on page views, which […]
