When the 130-page training guide titled, “Journalism 2.0,” was released a while back, I printed out a hard copy, but it was only this week that I had a chance to skim the document and figure out that it was written for and would be most useful for new media novices, with a great deal of value [...]

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Newswoman turned journalism professor Laura Ruel and new media maven Nora Paul show how multimedia producers can improve their projects by asking five volunteers who’ve never seen the story to prescreen it before release to see if they can click through without confusion. They describe this process of useability testing in an article published by Online Journalism Review (OJR). They lay it all out in simple sensible steps like getting volunteers from the non-news [...]

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Here’s a tip from Jeremy Milarsky of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. It’s a Firefox plug-in/toolbar that allows searches of various public-records sites and such.  
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3167

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fminimediaguy.org%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Ffirefox-plug-in-speeds%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Firefox+plug-in+for+reporters%2C+investigators’;
addthis_pub = ”;

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The new media literates? An article by Reuters reporter Gavin Haycock explores how “unprecedented change in media and technology (have) given teenagers and kids an advantage in forecasting what products will appeal to consumers.” Haycock, who apparently covers advertising for the news agency, writes:
 
Younger people spend more time online than watching television, have access [...]

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In the overlooked but noteworthy category, blogger J.D. Lasica, cofounder of the grassroots site OurMedia.org, has gotten a $15,000 Knight News Challenge grant to spend the next year writing about and disseminating elements of a “community media toolset: easy-to-use social media tools (plug-ins, scripts, guides and tutorials) that can expand public participation on citizen media [...]

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I’ve just returned home from four days in the redwoods of Humboldt County. On the six hour drive from Eureka to the Bay Area I stopped at a roadside rest just before the Avenue of the Giants, the scenic drive that parallels Highway 101. The sign called the local redwoods remnants of the greatest forest [...]

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Guy Kawasaki, one of high-tech industry earliest and most gifted hypesters, recently wrote a blog post spelling out how he launched a web site called Truemors for a little over $12,000. I think it competes with Michael Arrington’s rumor-mongering Tech Crunch.
 
But I don’t care about the rumors. It’s how Kawasaki did it. And, yes, [...]

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