Almighty Link

In the last 24 hours these web pages were bookmarked and tagged “journalism” by members of my delicious.com network:

• paulconley: My sky isn’t falling (This is a bloodbath. And it has just started) “1) Expect things to get worse at most publishers. This is a bloodbath. And it has just started.2) Brace yourself for the end game. Sometime very soon we’ll some of the giants of publishing collapse under the weight of outrageous debt levels, falling ad revenue and rising print costs.3)…
• Challenging what we “know” about web video | News Videographer “recently I’ve come to realize that the rules I’ve followed and preached are not working to attract the audience that online video must have to survive.”
• Reporters Getting Burned Out With New Technology, Journalists Tell National Press Club Forum at University of Missouri – Yahoo! News
• Data Visualization – slideshow presentation Largely based on Nathan Yau’s great blog post, “Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story.” Examples embedded. I hope I can build on this and beef it up later on.
• Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story | FlowingData Bookmarked this guy’s blog a while ago, but this article is AWESOME. A must-read for all journalism students. And journalists too.
• Better online video for news: Short movies = long pictures | Sixth W “But wouldn’t they be more effective embedded directly into the story, as illustrations? Couldn’t we treat videos like photos in a magazine? Instead of using video as an alternative to reading, use it to punctuate ideas.”

This is the first of a daily “feature” that is researched by humans, compiled by Delicious, processed by Yahoo! Pipes and presented by WordPress using the Postalicious plugin. It’s just one example of using online tools to tap into the collective wisdom of the smart individuals doing work on the web. Share your examples in the comments below.

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• My delicious.com network
• Delicious
• Yahoo! Pipes
• WordPress
• Postalicious, by Pablo Gómez Basanta
• Wikipedia: Collective wisdom