Okay, so I want to steer you in the direction of a blog called Andy Potential. It's basically a daily updated reel of video advertisements freshly put out by all kinds of brands such as Adidas, Audi, and the Vancouver Int. Film Festival to name a few.
Rob Schwartz is the creator and also a nominee for the Andy Awards 2010. His blog uses very little text, just a few snappy taglines about each video, and pools together some of the best advertisements I've seen. In a superficial way they touch on some things we've talked about in my online journalism class.
This is the first video I saw and also how I discovered the blog. I embedded it off Youtube, but I there's links to videos on his blog which range from the Denny's Nannerpus to an ad for the new Augmented Reality Smart Grid (Check it out!).
What does this have to do with my online journalism class? Three things:
1) Video is always a good element to a journalism story
2) Separate PR from your journalistic endeavors
3) Keep text concise and to the point
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
2016 Rio Olympic Reaction
The moment when the winner of the 2016 Olympics was announced. Scenes of Rio celebrating gives a taste of what their Olympic slogan "Time To Light Olympic Cauldron In A Tropical Country," promises for 2016.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
2016 Olympic Bid Announcement: Media Coverage in Chicago
Chicago news media will be covering the 2016 Olympic bid decision and posting stories from national and international outlets, as well as Chicago based media and social media sites today.
Coverage of 2016 Olympic bid will be updated throughout the day. Check back later for more stories and updates.
The Washington Post - Morning Fix: An Olympic Boom or Bust?
Chicago Blogs and Social Media
Windy Citizen - Watch the Live Stream of the Olympic Decision in Copenhagen
Chicagoist - Today's Weather: Olympian
BreakingTweets - Support for 2016 Olympic varies in each bid city
Mashups: A Journalist's Web Tool
Journalists nowadays can save some time doing research with clever web tools like mashups. What does a mashup site do? What kind of information can you find on them? And how is it helpful for journalists?
First I’ll tell you briefly how they work. Websites use software that goes out and “scraps” other websites for truckloads of any kind of information you can find on the Web. A good example of where content might come from would be the immeasurable amounts of data generated by government run research sites. Next that data, collected from many different sources, databases, web pages etc., is quite literally “mashed” together and archived so that users can then go in and do a simple search for particular kinds of information. This is a quicker more direct alternative to a Google search if you know what kind of info you’re looking for.
Ever wonder how active your city is politically on a national level? Okay, that’s not a simple question to answer or measure, but mashup sites are helpful in finding pieces of evidence to help journalists write a more complete story.
I visited the popular mashup site, This We Know and in about two minutes, I found out that the city of Chicago has introduced 16 bills since 1993 from 16 different members of Congress. Apparently a lot more than my hometown, San Francisco has with 10 bills introduced since 1993 from 5 members of Congress.
This We Know collects, organizes and makes freely available all information that the government collects about your community. Statemaster, another site, has a similar idea, scrapping together all information about the US organized by state. That might give you a clue to what information you can find on these sites and how they can be used by journalists.
Another useful tool to use is Datamasher, a site that actually enables users to do the mashing themselves. On their site you can visualize through interactive maps how the 50 states compare on important issues such as taxation, health, education, you get to choose.
For example here is a mashup map called "Driving Us to Drink" that was created by a user then posted on the site, comparing tax revenue per capita and alcohol consumption/binge drinking.
It’s interesting to see how mashups have contributed to political journalism. I think these sites are a very powerful tool because they equip individual people, whether they are journalists or not, to be fact-checkers.
Influential mashup site, Politifact, won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and public service for coverage of the 2008 elections. A main feature on the site are truth-o-meters displayed next to statements made by politicians indicating whether they are “true,” “mostly-true,” “barely true,” all the way to “false.” This is a new twist on journalism, but most definitely a good one.
First I’ll tell you briefly how they work. Websites use software that goes out and “scraps” other websites for truckloads of any kind of information you can find on the Web. A good example of where content might come from would be the immeasurable amounts of data generated by government run research sites. Next that data, collected from many different sources, databases, web pages etc., is quite literally “mashed” together and archived so that users can then go in and do a simple search for particular kinds of information. This is a quicker more direct alternative to a Google search if you know what kind of info you’re looking for.
Ever wonder how active your city is politically on a national level? Okay, that’s not a simple question to answer or measure, but mashup sites are helpful in finding pieces of evidence to help journalists write a more complete story.
I visited the popular mashup site, This We Know and in about two minutes, I found out that the city of Chicago has introduced 16 bills since 1993 from 16 different members of Congress. Apparently a lot more than my hometown, San Francisco has with 10 bills introduced since 1993 from 5 members of Congress.
This We Know collects, organizes and makes freely available all information that the government collects about your community. Statemaster, another site, has a similar idea, scrapping together all information about the US organized by state. That might give you a clue to what information you can find on these sites and how they can be used by journalists.
Another useful tool to use is Datamasher, a site that actually enables users to do the mashing themselves. On their site you can visualize through interactive maps how the 50 states compare on important issues such as taxation, health, education, you get to choose.
For example here is a mashup map called "Driving Us to Drink" that was created by a user then posted on the site, comparing tax revenue per capita and alcohol consumption/binge drinking.
It’s interesting to see how mashups have contributed to political journalism. I think these sites are a very powerful tool because they equip individual people, whether they are journalists or not, to be fact-checkers.
Influential mashup site, Politifact, won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and public service for coverage of the 2008 elections. A main feature on the site are truth-o-meters displayed next to statements made by politicians indicating whether they are “true,” “mostly-true,” “barely true,” all the way to “false.” This is a new twist on journalism, but most definitely a good one.
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