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links for 2008-09-06

• MediaShift . Embedded at NYU::Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School | PBS
  NYU J-School student says her professors just don't get the web world. (??Rosen??Jarvis??!) The comments are as interesting as the piece. Strikes me she'll make it anyway...(HT: Alf Hermida)
  (tags: internet journalism NYU digital future)

The web's next 5000 days

Kevin Kelly, former Exec Ed at Wired, and much more, talking at TED.

Get's a bit spiritual for my taste at the end ("We are the web, we are one") but pretty interesting along the way and pulls together and projects forward a lot of what's going on...

links for 2008-09-05

• BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film trailer voice-over king dies
  Don LaFontaine - the voice of Hollywood trailers - has died. I always wanted his job - just never had the voice for it....
  (tags: hollywood lafontaine movies)

links for 2008-09-03

• Epeus' epigone: Fear of the new - the Internet, Tea, and MapReduce
  Great post from Kevin Marks. The internet - as subversive as a cup of tea....?
  (tags: internet kmarks security)

links for 2008-08-24

• Analyzing News with Graphs and Tag Clouds | Development Seed
  (tags: news digital journalism tagging seed cloud data)
• One in five US women remain childless in life | World news | The Guardian
  (tags: infertility)

links for 2008-08-23

• Once There Was a New Journalism: Here's Norman Mailer Covering the 1960 Democratic Convention
  Jay Rosen reminds us of a fresh approach to the conventions - just 68  48 years old.
  (tags: USA politics conventions jrosen mailer democrats obama kennedy)

links for 2008-08-20

• BBC Internet Blog - semantic web
  Summary of workshop and presentations on what's happening with semantic web in BBC
  (tags: BBC semanticweb web3.0 data future internet)
• Content Bridges: Newspaper Stories We Tell Ourselves
  Tracking the changing mindset in print
  (tags: newspapers news journalism business internet web future)
• The Semantic Web: An Introduction
  a Primer
  (tags: semantic internet future web3.0)
• The Semantic Web: Scientific American
  Tim B-L article explaining the semantic web
  (tags: web3.0 semantic bernerslee internet future)
• Untold Stories: Georgia, Russia and the march to folly
  Pulitzer Center analysis of Georgia/Russia conflict
  (tags: georgia pulitzercenter russia conflict)

Young Americans

The International Herald Tribune runs a piece suggesting Jon Stewart of The Daily Show may be the most trusted "journalist" in America. And on the same page analyses how US election coverage is courting the young viewers who won't be watching the evening news....after a rise in primary season ballots cast by the under 30s.

Under Fire

The recent fighting in Georgia and South Ossetia was amongst the most dangerous for journalists. Five news staff were killed in five days with at least ten more wounded. Try this video of two Turkish news teams under fire on the Georgia - South Ossetia border.

Two were injured, one in the eye, one in the shoulder. A student at City University, Ahmet Gormez provided this translation:

-…They must be Georgian forces (soldiers open fire)
- Are we ok, are we ok
- No no no,
- Are we ok
- No no Levent's been shot.
- Move (the car) back,
(soldiers start firing again)
-back, back!
-Cumhur, are you ok? Cumhur, are you ok?
-Get down!
-Tires are gone!
-Ah!
-Allah!
-Esseduenla ilahe illallah… (I believe Allah is the only God – The last prayer of a Muslim that Muslims do when they believe they die)
- Esseduenla ilahe illallah…
- Esseduenla ilahe illallah…
-Ok mates calm down, don't move, stay still. Calm down, is everyone ok?
-Press… Press… Press…
-Press…
-Is the car broken?
-Ok brothers calm down!
-Isn't car working?
-No, tires been hit
-Calm down, Calm down, ok
-They'll come next to us now, everyone should be calm ok? Is everyone ok boys?
-We're ok, are you?
-I got shot from the arm
-Ok calm down boys
-Mates, I had a wound from my head. I feel ok for now but a few minutes later…
-Don't put your head up!
-Mates, I'm loosing a lot of blood, look. Can you immediately… do something from the back?
-Can't you show a white flag?
-Anyone has a white t-shirt inside?
-You have a monopod, put something on it.
-Hilmi, please
-Put it on the monopod
-Give me the monopod (driver put it's t-shirt to the monopod and takes it out of sunroof)
-The guy (soldier) is there, I can see him. He's making a sign. We will walk back.
-Back?
-Yes.
-Brother, give me the bandage.
(Journalists leaves the car)
-Ambulance!
- Ambulance!
-Journalist! Press! Ambulance!
-Pain killers are there give me a painkiller right now!
-Press! Press!
(Soldiers say something while aiming the gun to the journalists)

One of the soldiers says Dabaj! (As far as I remember it means fast in Russian) and kicks the cameraman"

It's just one of a number of incidents...

links for 2008-07-25

• Daniel Bennett - Using Twitter to follow the Bangalore bomb blasts
  From the Frontline blog
  (tags: twitter bangalore socialmedia frontline)