http://ljtim.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:54:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Global Voices is a great network of bloggers. It offers helpful and immediate search selections down the left hand side that enable the user to pick a topic or region to read about. It’s so well organised it offers most blog entries in at least one other language other than English. ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/10/20/week-13-httpglobalvoicesonlineorg/ The Internet has the amazing ability to lead a reader off-track. There is so much interesting information out there, and new types of media, that it is easy to get side tracked. Journalism.co.uk has an amazing array of articles about journalism and how-to options for Internet users. The articles are ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/10/19/week-12-wwwjournalismcouk/ BuzzMachine offers an interesting perspective into journalism as it develops on the web. In an article Jeff Jarvis published on 30 September 2008, he states, ‘I think the new building block of journalism needs to be the topic… I want a page, a site, a thing that is created, curated, edited, ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/10/10/week-11-wwwbuzzmachinecom/ New mobile technologies are taking the world by storm. The recent release of the Nokia N95 and Apple Iphone has begun a new trend in accessing the Internet from phones. The trend has yet to hit Australia. Countries like the UK and the USA have better speeds and deals ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/09/29/week-10-quinn-s-2008-%e2%80%9cwho-found-my-mojo%e2%80%9d/ After checking out this reading the immediate thought was ‘Youtube’. Youtube contains a lot of peoples’ personal videos, seemingly because they don’t know how to produce blogs/vblogs. The MediaShift vblogs were very amusing and slightly. For anyone who didn’t see this on Mobuzz TV, have a peep: http://www.mobuzz.tv/newsroom/eng/how_to_skip_a_class Mobuzz TV and Rocket Boom were my ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/week-9-mediashift-2008-%e2%80%9cfive-videoblogs-that-do-it-right%e2%80%9d-at-httpwwwpbsorgmediashift200802best_use_of_the_medium5_videobhtml/ Media convergence and citizen journalism allows people to connect around the world, on a convenient platform – the web. The reading stated, ‘Much of Stomp’s content represents a grass-roots kind of reporting. Soh said convergence allowed Stomp to report stories that would not see the light of day in the ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/09/14/week-8-quinn-s-2007-%e2%80%9ccitizen-journalism-gets-things-done-in-singapore-as-digital-revolution-moves-forward%e2%80%9d-in-innovations-in-newspapers-2007/ This week’s reading inspired me to have a go at doing this myself. I compared Flickr and Picasa for ease of use. In this day and age, people like easy-to-use programs. FLICKR (http://www.flickr.com/) From my computer Flickr was easy to use. I already had a Yahoo account, so I just had to ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/week-7-niles-r-2008-%e2%80%9cwhich-is-the-best-free-photo-gallery-editor-part-two%e2%80%9d-online-journalism-review/ Web 2.0 is creating communication opportunities for anyone with a modem. New business prospects are popping up for entrepreneurs all over the web. The Week 6 reading focuses on these prospects and opportunities, and the authenticity dangers of the web. The dodgy Wikipedia example in the reading is similar to warnings ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/08/28/week-6-quinn-s-2008-%e2%80%9cnew-tools-for-reporting%e2%80%9d/ Blogging is a trend that has grown in leaps and bounds over the last five years. Citizen journalism and OhmyNews are a new product of the blogging era. People are now considering, how can I make money from the Internet? One of the obvious answers is blogging. There are a ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/08/19/week-5-quinn-s-2008-chapter-7-%e2%80%9cohmynews-in-south-korea%e2%80%9d-in-asia%e2%80%99s-media-innovaters-konrad-adenaueur-foundation-singapore/ Wilson, F. (2008). “Make money around free content” in Wired magazine. Online at http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Money_Around_Free_Content and Anderson, C. (2008). “Free! Why $0.00 is the future of business” in Wired online at http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free Companies everywhere use the concept of ‘free’ products. These ‘free’ things are a great way to draw customers and ... http://ljtim.edublogs.org/2008/08/17/week-4/