The list-making season gave us Vadim Lavrusik’s smart 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist and John Thompson’s concise Ten Things Every Journalist Should Know in 2010. Poynter posted a lively list of 100 Things Journalists Should Never Do, and Adam Westbrook added a nice set of 10 Resolutions for Journalists in 2010. To [...]
Tech writeups often focus on the big guns: Apple, Google and Microsoft. But lots of little players offer great tools for journalists. One such small fry is Brooklyn-based Drop.io. The site offers a terrific solution for journalism collaboration.
Drop.io lets you set up free digital drop boxes – as many as you want – where you can share photos, documents, PDFs, videos, audio files and links with colleagues.
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]