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Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good’s weekly collection of the best new media tools our editors team has run into this week. Check these new media latest entries let us know what you think of them. Photo credit: Monika Adamczyk Streaming video and audio recorder with integrated whiteboard and text editor Collaborative workspace with integrated witheboard and chat Large file sending service allows you to exchange files up to 1GB in size Video marketing service allows you to put ads inside videos Screen sharing application for Windows allows…
Introduction To Wikis: How The Web Is Transforming Itself – Part III
Posted by: admin | Comments (134)Wikis, and similar collaborative web editing tools mark a major element of transformation of the new Web emerging today. To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting and file-sharing this model is challenged and community-driven services are gaining influence rapidly. These new paradigms obliterate the clear distinction between information providers and consumers. The lines between producers and consumers are blurred even more by services such as Wikipedia, where every reader can become an author, instantly. This…
New Media Journalism: How Professional Reporters Are Being Influenced By The Internet
Posted by: admin | Comments Comments OffJames Cameron (1911-1985), arguably the greatest British journalist of the last 100 years, always insisted that journalism is a craft. Now "craft" implies pride in work, integrity in dealing with customers, rites of passage, and long years of training to acquire the requisite skills/knowledge. But that was then. Photo credit: Phaif Today, journalism is a "profession". Many aspiring hacks now need a university or other accredited "qualification", and, except in the Anglo-American world, a government issued licence to "qualify" as a journalist. In some countries you’re compelled by regulations to belong to a recognised association and to obey its code of standards in order to practice and earn a living as a journalist. The march towards professionalism began with the…