Archive for the 'Journalism' Category


29Jul

Google News Source Filtering

When you view a cluster in Google News, there’s a new option to filter sources: you can restrict news articles to blogs and to local news sites that are relevant to your query. The filters are a good way to find opinionated articles and more up-to-date information from local sites. Read on Google Operating Systems

26Jul

Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Message

For those interested in understanding media beyond their immediate appearance Marshall McLuhan remains without a doubt still one of the richest and most inspiring resources. His books and writings offer a wealth of insights into the media transformation and changes we are witnessing now, over 30 years after he described and anticipated them. Author of [...]

17Jul

How Google sell advertising on paper

This brief presentation explains how Google has started about a year ago to sell advertising on paper. At brokerage program, which allows investors to buy online bidding downward compared to lists, have already joined 600 U.S. newspapers, amounting to 70% of dissemination. Among them New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, [...]

07Jul

Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media: An Opinionated Digest by George Siemens

Sense-making is the extraordinary new unconscious effort the Internet avant-garde has moved into. After an initial phase of discovery, experimentation and pure exploration, web publishers, bloggers and educators are gradually turning their efforts into looking at what they have learned and making it accessible to everyone. This is why you see such an explosion of [...]

21May

YouTube Launches Citizen Journalism Channel, Citizen News

On Sunday, a YouTube blog post introduced us to Olivia, YouTube’s recently hired News Manager. She’s going to be in charge of a new Channel on YouTube called Citizen News. This channel will highlight the best of the citizen journalism that’s taking place on YouTube, but its ultimate goal is to become a go-to news [...]