Blogs - JO540 Multimedia Journalism

Producing a Story

This week we are going to use some of the things we learned in class and produce a story or two.

Search the blogs and twitter for trending topics. Decide on a story. Produce it and send it up to a bunch of video hosting sites including iReport. Think about how to title and describe it for most reach. Then publicize it using blogs and twitter...

Share your thoughts in the comments... Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on November 17, 2008 at 1:47pm — 2 Comments

Open Letter to the Future President http://vimeo.com/2139836 Google - Explore flu trends across the U.S. - Crowd sourcing where the crowd doesn't actively contribute. Their Google searches are compiled. http://www.google.org/flutrends/ Brian Lehrer asking audience to do research http://twitter.com/brianlehrer… Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on November 13, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Election 08 BU Student View

Follow the BU students reporting on the election at Election 08 BU Student View. Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on November 3, 2008 at 8:55pm — No Comments

Traditional Media vs. Twitter for News

JD Lasica wrote up a recap of Digital Hollywood and in it he talks about getting news:

I repeated my mantra that the "filter" (gatekeeper role) of the traditional media can serve a beneficial purpose but more often than not turns into a conventional wisdom echo chamber where self-appointed gasbags declare winners and losers and play up or ignore news stories on their own whims, with little rhyme or reason. To get

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Added by Steve Garfield on October 29, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

What if McCain/Palin Don't Win the White House in November?

1. The entire State of Alaska becomes angered and disgruntled because their governor was not elec

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Added by crazyasacoolfox on October 18, 2008 at 3:25am — No Comments

Fox Goes Off Course for Moose Off Course

I'm not the biggest fan of Fox25. Here is just one of my rants. lol Click here for story on my blog Novus Pathetica Continue

Added by crazyasacoolfox on October 4, 2008 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Crowdsourcing Request from @BrianLehrer of WYNC

Crowdsourcing Request! Read any ten pages of the 110 page Bailout Bill and comment on air at 10am. http://tinyurl.com/3gl6fc From twitter. Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 29, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Yankee Stadium a Cathedral? ROFL

Where else but New York City do they worship in a ball park? Of course New York City, it is afterall the capitol of all of the 7 deadly sins. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluteny, lust. It's all happening at Yankee Stadium. I have been hearing this stuff all day. ESPN, MLB.com, and many other news outlets have been referring to Yankee Stadium as a "cathedral." This "cathedral" is actually Yankee Stadium II The place was completely gutted in 1973. All the fences were pulled in and the famou… Continue

Added by crazyasacoolfox on September 23, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

One Lie a Day is #1 on Google

The blog I made in class last week, One Lie A Day, is #1 in a Google search for One Lie A Day. Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 20, 2008 at 7:29am — No Comments

SoMe Election 08

SoMe Election 08, documenting Election 2008 through social media. Join and contribute your own material, or others'. Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 12, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Event: SoMe Election 08, Thursday September 11, 2008 at 6:00pm

SoMe Election 08 One Main Street in Cambridge (Kendall Square) First floor conference room Usually when we meet it is to hear people talk about specific issues in social media. Tonight's meeting is a little different - the idea is for all of us to work together to CREATE social media. While ostensibly a planning meeting (we'll be talking about the project AND about future events), it is open to all who would like to get involved with what should be a very fun project. The Project: SoMe Electio… Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 11, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Event: WBUR Social Media Event, Tuesday September 16, 2008 at 5:00pm

WBUR Social Media Event Tuesday September 16, 2008 at 5:00pm WBUR 890 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Category: Social Register at Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1075290/?ps=5 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrV6hbHl1yM You are cordially invited to WBUR's third social media facilitated get together. This very loosely struct… Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 10, 2008 at 9:01pm — No Comments

Event: Tech @ the Movies. Thursday, September 25 at 6 PM

Tech @ the Movies Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (ET) UKTI One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA Event Details: Massachusetts companies have played a pivotal role in the evolution of Hollywood. Movies might still be in black-and-white -- and we might never have had "The Wizard of Oz" -- if not for Technicolor, founded by Massachusetts entrepreneurs. And Avid Technology won an Oscar in the 1990s for introducing computers to the movie editing process. You'll hear… Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 10, 2008 at 8:54pm — No Comments

After setting up a blog: Add Feedburner, Creative Commons, Google Analytics

Adding an RSS feed: Feedburner http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home CALL TO ACTION Subscribe via EMAIL Feedburner http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home Licensing: Creative Commons - License Your Work http://creativecommons.org/ Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/ Domain and Hosting Discounts EpicFu http://epicfu.com/offers/ FU1 and get a 10% discount off the entire order FU2 and get $5 off any order over $30 FU3 and get the domain for 6.95 FU4 and get 15% off any order over $75 F… Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 10, 2008 at 4:40pm — No Comments

Share Favorite Blog Sites and Posts with Delicious

Delicious http://delicious.com/ Example: http://delicious.com/stevegarfield Bookmarklet http://delicious.com/help/bookmarklets Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 10, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Western Online Journalism

Take a look at the official online community for Wayne MacPhail's online journalism class and the course outline. Looks great. Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 6, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Links from Sept 4th: Reading Blogs

Thanks for making the first session fun adn interactive. Here's a list of the sites we visited during the class. Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on September 6, 2008 at 10:55am — No Comments

Welcome to JO540 Multimedia Journalism

Thanks for visiting the JO540 Multimedia Journalism community. Starting this fall, I'll be teaching at Boston University's College of Communication in the Department of Journalism. I'm excited to share what I know about new media tools and am looking forward to learning from students and others who want to join in. I'll be setting up forum topics to go along with each of my weekly focus presentations. The first is blogging, with a focus on… Continue

Added by Steve Garfield on July 27, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

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