Friday, October 31, 2003
Here is an interesting idea. The BBC is using a social cooperation interface--a blog plus set up to try and get people to work together in their neighborhoods. Pros and cons are discussed and of course there is already a parody site. Better check back on this one once in a while.Wired News: BBC Offers Power to the People
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
This is more about editing and blogging. Please read and be ready to discuss it.
The Case Against Editors - Why it still pays to not have one.
The Case Against Editors - Why it still pays to not have one.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Friday, October 24, 2003
Interesting article on what blog study means. Is the glass half full or half empty? Blog Bog and an E-Mail Pony Express
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Blog on | CNET News.com: "What effect is blogging having on traditional journalism? Would it ever replace or dilute the value of traditional journalism?
It's certainly having an impact. From a blog reader's perspective, it certainly affects where I go and where I get and read my news. It is a more complex ecosystem now, so for the most part, I think they're complementary; blogs tend to be more about filtering and adding commentary and perspective--but there is some original reporting that's going on there. And the journalists who take advantage of blogs, I think, can do a better job of reporting on their areas. "
It's certainly having an impact. From a blog reader's perspective, it certainly affects where I go and where I get and read my news. It is a more complex ecosystem now, so for the most part, I think they're complementary; blogs tend to be more about filtering and adding commentary and perspective--but there is some original reporting that's going on there. And the journalists who take advantage of blogs, I think, can do a better job of reporting on their areas. "
Sunday, October 19, 2003
We are going to go back to this during class this week because we need to complete our site design. Web Style Guide: PROCESS
Friday, October 17, 2003
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Here is an interesting use of blogging for reporting. A reporter is blogging from the Sniper Trial with the encouragment of his editors. You don't have to read it, but I suggest you look at the blog from the trial several times to assess its effectiveness in reporting an ongoing event like a trial.Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Please read this article (see link below) for a discussion next week. As you go to each of the links and explore how the links build context into the overall mental impact of the story, make notes about what was going on in your own thinking process. How did you read the story? Usually one either reads through and then checks links or one reads the story more slowly and checks each link as one reads.
What kind of forum, discussions, or audience blogs might we include? Let's talk next week.
Advancing Citizen Blogs on News Sites
What kind of forum, discussions, or audience blogs might we include? Let's talk next week.
Advancing Citizen Blogs on News Sites
Saturday, October 11, 2003
Thursday, October 09, 2003
Check out this information about site redesigns. Take a look at the publications in question. What do you think? Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 Blogging, FTP, and Basic Imaging
Blogging—the tool
http://www.blogger.com
Set up a blog.
Keep track of:
Username:
Password:
Blogname & url:
Try blogging your notes today in class. Our discussions indicate there is confusion between the tool to blog and the way the tool is being used. We will have some readings from the Nieman Foundation about the growing role of blog, the publishing tool, in Journalism. Keep in mind that other blogging software allows you to get comments and additions to your blog from viewer/users. Writing interactively can be as silly as a chatroom, but it can also represent a new kind of narrative, one which grips readers’ interest.
FTP & our place in Cyberspace
Once you make a web page, how to put it onto the Internet so all the virtual world can see it? Well, like the way you saved your initial web pages to a location on your own computer (or on a storage medium of some kind) you logon (connect) to a computer called a “server”, locate your folder or directory on that server, establish your identity with a logon and password, and then you use the PROTOCOL of FTP or file transfer protocol, to upload (put) or download (get) files from where you are in time and space to your storage space on the server. Note that the server may be anywhere in the cyber universe.
Our server is called “nexus.colum.edu”
Our username (for everyone in class) is “reporter”
Our password is:
Your directory or folder in our website is called:
Our website for class will be found at:
http://nexus.colum.edu/class/online
"To upload your files".
When designing your pages, you have to name your main home page "index.html". As UNIX, the computer language we use, is cAsE-SeNSiTivE, please be sure not to name your file Index.html or INDEX.HTML.
If your Web page development program limits you to a 3 letter file extension, make sure to rename your index.htm file to index.html after you upload it. Use the rename command in your FTP program. You will notice that when you login(ftp) to your account that an index.html file already exist, just replace it with your own.
"How do I upload and what's FTP?"
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is what you use to transfer files from your computer to your Web site, which resides on our machine. An FTP program will allow you to upload files. Uploading is the process of putting files from your machine onto another. (The process of getting files from another machine to yours is called downloading.) Most Macs and PC's in the Academic Computing department will have Fetch (Mac) or FTPworks (PC) ftp clients.
If you do not already have an ftp client, you can get an FTP program from:
Mac users: http://fetchsoftworks.com
PC users: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
(NOTE: When we start using Dreamweaver, the FTP client is built into that program.)
To upload your files, connect to the Internet and start your FTP program. It will require the following information:
Host: nexus.colum.edu <-- Where your documents are kept
Username: <-- Your username
Password: <4news> <-- password
Your workspace: your directory we set up today
Use your FTP program to connect to nexus.colum.edu. Once you've entered your username and password, you will be put into your personal or class directory on our ftp server. Now all you need to do is upload web documents using your FTP program. Since different programs have different procedures for uploading, I suggest you read the Help section (usually found by clicking on the "Help" menu option in the menu bar) to see the particular setup and operation of your program. Make sure you select "Raw Data" (Macintosh) or "Binary" (PC) when uploading data files such as pictures or sound files. When uploading text files such as HTML or imagemap (.map) files, you should
select the "Text-only" or "ASCII" setting.
NOTE: By using your ftp/web space you have agreed to certain Terms and Conditions and are bound by the limitations as set down by the Academic Computing department.
Images
Be sure you have a list of the free workshops offered by Academic Computing and by Interactive Multimedia and attend as many as you can.
Image basics for our class are a simplification of all the possibilities of imaging on a computer. There are many ways to accomplish imaging tasks, so use ones that you find work for you.
Where do you get images? You can capture images from digital cameras, digital video (frame captures), scanning in photos or drawings, or by downloading images from the Internet. All images for use on Internet must be in either .jpg or .gif format (note this is for still images.) The resolution of these images never needs to be greater than screen resolution, which is no more than about 92 dpi (dots per inch.)
When you capture an image, the first thing you do is size it for the webpage. Since a typical web page is 600 by 800 pixels, your images are sized accordingly.
Open photoshop
Open your image
Under the “Help” menu, click the resize command
Choose online
Set your image size
Finish and try the unsharp mask under the “Filter” menu
Use “Image” “Adjustments” tools as needed
Save for web…
Set up for 4 views
Text for .gif or .jpg
Save and keep track to where you saved the image, and what its extension is.
References and tutorial help at:our class site under the entries for 10/8/03
Blogging—the tool
http://www.blogger.com
Set up a blog.
Keep track of:
Username:
Password:
Blogname & url:
Try blogging your notes today in class. Our discussions indicate there is confusion between the tool to blog and the way the tool is being used. We will have some readings from the Nieman Foundation about the growing role of blog, the publishing tool, in Journalism. Keep in mind that other blogging software allows you to get comments and additions to your blog from viewer/users. Writing interactively can be as silly as a chatroom, but it can also represent a new kind of narrative, one which grips readers’ interest.
FTP & our place in Cyberspace
Once you make a web page, how to put it onto the Internet so all the virtual world can see it? Well, like the way you saved your initial web pages to a location on your own computer (or on a storage medium of some kind) you logon (connect) to a computer called a “server”, locate your folder or directory on that server, establish your identity with a logon and password, and then you use the PROTOCOL of FTP or file transfer protocol, to upload (put) or download (get) files from where you are in time and space to your storage space on the server. Note that the server may be anywhere in the cyber universe.
Our server is called “nexus.colum.edu”
Our username (for everyone in class) is “reporter”
Our password is:
Your directory or folder in our website is called:
Our website for class will be found at:
http://nexus.colum.edu/class/online
"To upload your files".
When designing your pages, you have to name your main home page "index.html". As UNIX, the computer language we use, is cAsE-SeNSiTivE, please be sure not to name your file Index.html or INDEX.HTML.
If your Web page development program limits you to a 3 letter file extension, make sure to rename your index.htm file to index.html after you upload it. Use the rename command in your FTP program. You will notice that when you login(ftp) to your account that an index.html file already exist, just replace it with your own.
"How do I upload and what's FTP?"
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is what you use to transfer files from your computer to your Web site, which resides on our machine. An FTP program will allow you to upload files. Uploading is the process of putting files from your machine onto another. (The process of getting files from another machine to yours is called downloading.) Most Macs and PC's in the Academic Computing department will have Fetch (Mac) or FTPworks (PC) ftp clients.
If you do not already have an ftp client, you can get an FTP program from:
Mac users: http://fetchsoftworks.com
PC users: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
(NOTE: When we start using Dreamweaver, the FTP client is built into that program.)
To upload your files, connect to the Internet and start your FTP program. It will require the following information:
Host: nexus.colum.edu <-- Where your documents are kept
Username:
Password: <4news> <-- password
Your workspace: your directory we set up today
Use your FTP program to connect to nexus.colum.edu. Once you've entered your username and password, you will be put into your personal or class directory on our ftp server. Now all you need to do is upload web documents using your FTP program. Since different programs have different procedures for uploading, I suggest you read the Help section (usually found by clicking on the "Help" menu option in the menu bar) to see the particular setup and operation of your program. Make sure you select "Raw Data" (Macintosh) or "Binary" (PC) when uploading data files such as pictures or sound files. When uploading text files such as HTML or imagemap (.map) files, you should
select the "Text-only" or "ASCII" setting.
NOTE: By using your ftp/web space you have agreed to certain Terms and Conditions and are bound by the limitations as set down by the Academic Computing department.
Images
Be sure you have a list of the free workshops offered by Academic Computing and by Interactive Multimedia and attend as many as you can.
Image basics for our class are a simplification of all the possibilities of imaging on a computer. There are many ways to accomplish imaging tasks, so use ones that you find work for you.
Where do you get images? You can capture images from digital cameras, digital video (frame captures), scanning in photos or drawings, or by downloading images from the Internet. All images for use on Internet must be in either .jpg or .gif format (note this is for still images.) The resolution of these images never needs to be greater than screen resolution, which is no more than about 92 dpi (dots per inch.)
When you capture an image, the first thing you do is size it for the webpage. Since a typical web page is 600 by 800 pixels, your images are sized accordingly.
Open photoshop
Open your image
Under the “Help” menu, click the resize command
Choose online
Set your image size
Finish and try the unsharp mask under the “Filter” menu
Use “Image” “Adjustments” tools as needed
Save for web…
Set up for 4 views
Text for .gif or .jpg
Save and keep track to where you saved the image, and what its extension is.
References and tutorial help at:our class site under the entries for 10/8/03
This is the background info for today's discussion of FTP. Read it over at your leisure, but do check it out.FTP: For The People
Let's set our tables....The Basic, Basic Table Go on to his next exercise, too. Check out the examples of good use of tables and excessive use at the end of the second tutorial. Now we are almost ready for Dreamweaver.
Help yourself is typical advice in the world of HTML and online publishing. Help yourself here to Webmonkey tutorials galore.Webmonkey | tour
Monday, October 06, 2003
Like it or not news people, if the NYTimes takes up blogging as a journalistic tool, it better be in your "journalist toolkit." The challenge is to use the technology to get out stories the way you think they should appear, not to worry about how some of the flaky folks use the same tool. Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
Creative CommonsCheck out this site and te idea behind it. As a content creator, what's your opinion?
Look at these sites for samples of student-driven ezines as you think about what ours might be (and bring in your own examples):
OJR
Project Censored
Student ezines from American Univ in Cairo
Look at these sites for samples of student-driven ezines as you think about what ours might be (and bring in your own examples):
OJR
Project Censored
Student ezines from American Univ in Cairo
Saturday, October 04, 2003
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Here are Journalists blogging for Neiman. Check out what the professional journalist say about and do with blogs.projo.com | Providence | Weblogs | Subterranean Homepage News
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
What is happening with foreign news coverage? Does the digicam style sound a bit like the blogging reporter? What do you think?American Journalism Review: "A digicam revolution has created a breed of correspondents who travel light, often working alone, producing intimate, you-are-there reports for a fraction of the cost of sending a traditional network crew. The new technology offers a promise of faster, less produced, more informal stories that not only could increase the amount of foreign news on television, but inject new style. "
A classic article has been updated. Refer to this as needed. Dube is focused on reportorial writing than Nielson, who has gotten too pompous in my humble opinion.Poynter Online - Writing News Online
Homework week 2: Image story with links (see handout); 2-3 Site Structure sketches (as per handout) with design notes
In week two, we will critique your text links, and then work on digital image capture by going out and capturing some still and video clips. When we return to class, you will learn how to transfer the images to the computer. This is a skill that you need to practice over the next few weeks, and you need to be thinking about image capture for our online publication. It is best to play first to learn the technical skills. Then when you work with content that is important, the skills will be natural.
In addition to learning about digital image capture, we will discuss the process of web site design, and begin preliminary site planning. Our global objective is to create a news website for the Journalism department. We will learn the steps in web site production and work together to focus our publication, through audience identification, asset inventory, and other planning stages.
I have included links to reading and tutorial exercises you need to work with today and for next week. These include "how to" HTML, and a guide to the design process. At this stage, we are thinking globally and conceptually, rather than focusing on specific content. Thus, think about "look and feel" and navigation possibilities, without choosing a color or style at this time -- what are our choices in these areas? This is the time to sketch out your ideas, or do screen grabs so we can have lots of concrete examples of things.
This is a supplement to the handout on HTML given out in class in the second week. This tutorial is designed with a Primer a day. You can do all of them at one sitting, however. For the assignment you did on writing with links, check out Primer #4. That explains what code the MS Word program was inserting for you, in order to create live links.
In class today, and for homework, refer to Primer 5 on how to work with images. Primers 6 & 7 are for you to read on your own.
This is a handy overview of new tags and old tags in HTML 4.
Web Style Guide: PROCESS We will study all sections, but leave site marketing and tracking, evaluation & maintenance for later.
Read here to make sure you see where we are going with our work with the digital image capture devices today. After all, we need to know how it is going to be formatted and used as part of understanding what to shoot."
Web Style Guide: PAGE DESIGNThis section is particularly important so be sure you look at it carefully.
We need to have a general understanding of streaming, of audio, slideshows, video, etc. Go through this and write down any questions you have for next week. Web Style Guide: MULTIMEDIA
In week two, we will critique your text links, and then work on digital image capture by going out and capturing some still and video clips. When we return to class, you will learn how to transfer the images to the computer. This is a skill that you need to practice over the next few weeks, and you need to be thinking about image capture for our online publication. It is best to play first to learn the technical skills. Then when you work with content that is important, the skills will be natural.
In addition to learning about digital image capture, we will discuss the process of web site design, and begin preliminary site planning. Our global objective is to create a news website for the Journalism department. We will learn the steps in web site production and work together to focus our publication, through audience identification, asset inventory, and other planning stages.
I have included links to reading and tutorial exercises you need to work with today and for next week. These include "how to" HTML, and a guide to the design process. At this stage, we are thinking globally and conceptually, rather than focusing on specific content. Thus, think about "look and feel" and navigation possibilities, without choosing a color or style at this time -- what are our choices in these areas? This is the time to sketch out your ideas, or do screen grabs so we can have lots of concrete examples of things.
This is a supplement to the handout on HTML given out in class in the second week. This tutorial is designed with a Primer a day. You can do all of them at one sitting, however. For the assignment you did on writing with links, check out Primer #4. That explains what code the MS Word program was inserting for you, in order to create live links.
In class today, and for homework, refer to Primer 5 on how to work with images. Primers 6 & 7 are for you to read on your own.
This is a handy overview of new tags and old tags in HTML 4.
Web Style Guide: PROCESS We will study all sections, but leave site marketing and tracking, evaluation & maintenance for later.
Read here to make sure you see where we are going with our work with the digital image capture devices today. After all, we need to know how it is going to be formatted and used as part of understanding what to shoot."
Web Style Guide: PAGE DESIGNThis section is particularly important so be sure you look at it carefully.
We need to have a general understanding of streaming, of audio, slideshows, video, etc. Go through this and write down any questions you have for next week. Web Style Guide: MULTIMEDIA
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