Live-blogging tips for journalists
Here are tips for journalists on Live-Blogging hearings, trials, community board meetings, press conferences, panels and conferences (hence forth called “events”). Not all the elements listed below are required. Remember there is no orthodoxy on how you live-blog: Be prepared before the speakers/panelists even begin speaking: 1. Have panelists’ names and titles typed out and [...]
Read more →
Tips on writing for blogs
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 [...]
Read more →
Posting embedded audio to a self-hosted WordPress blog
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 clip: view full post [...]
Read more →
Posting embedded audio to your wordpress hosted site
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 [...]
Read more →
Policing Public Space
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]
Read more →
Using FTP to store your media Online
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 [...]
Read more →
Using soundslides
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 [...]
Read more →
ONA Awards judging
I served as a judge for the 2007 Online Journalism Awards. The judging took place at USC over two days in early September. It was amazing to see how the quality of the work online keeps improving each year. I won this award in 2003 but that work now seems so quaint technically–though just as [...]
Read more →
“New Breed of Media Prepares for Post-war Iraq” piece on KCET.org, LA’s PBS
I wrote a piece about how at this nascent stage organizations like Alive in Baghdad are focused on telling unique stories that are not found in the mainstream media. But they are also preparing for a larger role they will play in the near future by steadily building a larger audience, and more importantly, by [...]
Read more →
BloggingStream by 
