Archive for October, 2007

Tips on writing for blogs

Posted 28 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: Tutorials | No Comments

Many bloggers developed reputations by aggregating and linking to topical content. What these bloggers scoured for across the Web and then chose to link to was the editorial judgment that others valued. Two great examples of this are Romenesko and Instapundit.com.
Here is a framework, however, for a blog writing style that works if you are [...]

Posting embedded audio to a self-hosted Wordpress blog

Posted 19 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

Posting embedded audio to a self-hosted Wordpress blog is a little more complicated and requires installing a plugin.
If you are up to it, visit this link for the plugin.
Installation instructions are here.
The code you need to insert is found here.
The post would also look like this:
[audio:http://digitalstoragespace.com/08/sandeepjunnarkar/audio/audio.mp3]
Thanks Drew!

Posting embedded audio to your wordpress hosted site

Posted 19 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

Here is a simple way to post audio if you are using a Wordpress hosted site (such as http://fourlegs.wordpress.com). Simply add this code to your post and replace the link I have provided below with your own link.
[audio http://digitalstoragespace.com/08/sandeepjunnarkar/audio/audio.mp3]
You need to include a paragraph break space before and after the code above.
This works only with [...]

Policing Public Space

Posted 19 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: General | No Comments

Public Space Guru Fred Kent works to revitalize shared urban spaces. He’s spent the week reviewing listeners’ favorite and least favorite places in the City and returns with his assessments. Plus, a conversation with NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly.
[audio http://digitalstoragespace.com/08/sandeepjunnarkar/audio/audio.mp3]

Using FTP to store your media Online

Posted 18 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

1. Launch Fetch.

2. In the “New Connection” window:

enter “ftp.digitalstoragespace.com” into “hostname”
enter “08class@digitalstoragespace.com” into username
enter the password you have been given.

3. You may check “add to keychain” if you do not want repeat (2) in the future.
4. Hit “Connect”
5. You are now within a folder titled “08″
6. Click on “New Folder” in the Fetch [...]

Using soundslides

Posted 16 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

We’ve gone over Soundslides in the Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism course. This tool is used around the world by small to mid-sized online news sites that do not have their own Flash developers creating customized templates. It is extremely simple to use and powerful–especially attractive to print journalists who today must also produce multimedia. This [...]