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Archive: Technology

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0 Will Satellite, 'Podcasting' Bring a Renaissance to Radio Journalism? | NPR's Bob Edwards and schlock king Howard Stern move to satellite. People use RSS feeds to get shows on portable MP3 players.  It's a new day in radio, but will journalism flourish? By Mark Glaser
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0 Media Reports Are Fair Targets on Maverick Entrepreneur's Blog | Mark Cuban -- dot-com billionaire, NBA team owner, HDTV developer, reality TV star -- blogs to strike back at a sports columnist, Donald Trump and people who don't get his TV show. By Mark Glaser
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0 Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories | Google News uses computer algorithms to identify top stories while Yahoo News favors old-fashioned human editors. But do Google's automated search results display a conservative bias? By J.D. Lasica
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0 Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? | Spammers post links in blog comments in order to game Google searches. Movable Type creators and bloggers band together to take back the blogosphere. Here's a look at the battle so far. By Mark Glaser
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0 Connecting With Dan Gillmor: What's Next For the Web | When Dan Gillmor writes, speaks or links, people pay attention. Now the respected tech journalist has a new book, and he's giving it away to his fellow Netizens. He talks with OJR's Staci D. Kramer.
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0 Collaborative Conundrum: Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom? | Wikipedia has more than 340,000 articles, written by a sprawling online community. With so many contributors, accuracy is a concern. Can journalists trust collaborative sites? By Mark Glaser
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0 Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever-Expanding Blogosphere | The openness of Weblogs could help explain why many readers find them more credible than traditional media. Can mainstream journalists learn from their cutting-edge cousins? By J.D. Lasica
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0 Thinking About Interaction Design for Online News Delivery | Online journalism needs better design for active readers rather than passive consumers, says designer Philip van Allen. His research suggests ways in which Web content can be made more enabling.
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0 The Best (and Worst) Video Feeds Online | Video quality has improved, but it's still a struggle to find feeds on many news sites. We review the top video offerings to tell you how some have improved while others are still lagging. By Mark Glaser
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0 RSS Feeds Can Build Web Traffic, but Fence Sitters Note Problems | Industry decision makers still have concerns about public acceptance of a technology with no standardization or brand identity. They also worry about losing ad visibility on their own index pages. By Staci D. Kramer
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0 Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication | "Blogologists" assemble at our virtual roundtable to discuss how blogs are changing academia, politics and traditional journalism. They see them as being important, but school is still out on whether they are journalism. By Mark Glaser
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0 Dot-Comeback: Financial Sites Hire Editorial Staff, Add Pay Newsletters | As the financial markets begin to recover, so do the business sites that cover them. CBS MarketWatch plans to hire 37 people, and Forbes.com is hiring 40. Is it just cyclical or a growing trend? By Mark Glaser
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0 Teaching Online Journalism | Educators confront tough decisions on how much scarce time in a semester should be spent on teaching software tools vs. teaching reporting and writing. But first, one has to define what online journalism is -- and what makes it unique. By Mindy McAdams
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0 CNET's Expansion May Signal a Turnaround in Tech Journalism | News.com came out of nowhere in the mid-'90s to trounce established tech news outlets with speed and scoops. After cutbacks during the bust, the company is again expanding. Founding editor Jai Singh explains how. By Mark Glaser
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0 Redefining the News Online | Journalists around the world have long agreed on a set of values that help define whether a story is newsworthy. But a new book about online news argues that these rules are in flux: "Newsworthy" is slowly being redefined online by an increasingly participatory audience.
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0 Goodbye Audio Tape, and Welcome to the  World of Digital Recording | It's time to give up the celluloid: Digital recording software is now so easy to use, even a total tech refusnik can figure out how to tape interviews directly to the computer. By Jordan Raphael
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0 A Recipe for Homegrown News | The MIT Media Lab is teaming up with senior centers and schools around the world to teach would-be journalists how to write and publish community news online. The program gives participants simple publishing tools -- and a few key lessons in how to be reporters and editors. By Adam Clayton Powell
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0 Sites Slowly See Need to Make Web Accessible to Blind Users | Software that dictates text gets tangled up in design features and unlabeled images. But enterprising news sites are designing their sites with blind readers in mind. By Mark Thompson
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0 The E-mail Paradox: Bane and Boon for Journalists' Productivity | Reporters are swamped with messages from readers and PR reps. But they also depend on e-mail more than ever. We take a look at this love-hate relationship with our in boxes. By Mark Glaser
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0 Reporter Reminisces on Years of Covering Computer Revolution | John Markoff of the NY Times covered the two Steves after they founded Apple. He was there right after Bill and Paul birthed Microsoft. And he's still there, fretting about the future. By Adam Clayton Powell
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0 Google News Creator Gets Last Laugh After Portal Wins Webby | A year after its launch, the computer-generated portal is still taking flak for how it defines news. But Google's principal scientist, Krishna Bharat, has seen the site's success silence many of its critics. By Staci D. Kramer
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0 Are Online Search Tools Making Life Too Easy for Journalists? | The Internet has been a boon for harried editors and reporters looking to verify facts and check background information. But are they relying on the Net to the detriment of pounding the streets? By Mark Glaser
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0 International Moblog Conference Focuses on Mobile Publishing  | Web-enabled cell phones now mean Joe Sixpack can snap and send news photos to the local newspaper -- or publish them to his own personal Web site. How will today's new publishing tools change journalism?
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0 Moblogs Offer Crystal Ball for Future of Online Journalism | Democratization of the media will not be about technological advances; rather, it will entail upholding standards to earn viewers' trust. By Howard Rheingold
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0 Are Digital Newspaper Editions More Than Smoke and Mirrors? | Some print publications are scaling back their news Web sites and putting more effort into their electronic replicas. Why?  Because paid online subscriptions now count toward total circulation. By J.D. Lasica
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0 Portraying the Graphic Face of War | Photojournalism in the battlefield moves into a new era with advanced digital equipment. News Web sites are poised to demonstrate how this medium has become increasingly powerful at shaping public understanding of conflict.
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0 Covering the Next War Online | In Gulf War II technology may level the media playing field. Will the Internet go head-to-head with broadcast news in covering the next war?
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0 Cell Phones that Surf for News | OJR presents an article from our new sister site, the Japan Media Review. Japan's wireless-crazy populace could be the proving ground for news delivery via cell phones.
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0 News That Comes to You | RSS feeds offer info-junkies a way to take the pulse of hundreds of sites.  A few weeks of dabbling may make some converts, but will it make people change their Web surfing habits?
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0 Gear for the Multimedia Newsroom | An organization from Germany has set up shop in South Carolina to help news organizations sort through the glut of tech tools on the market.  Here's a look at what they recommend to meet the digital needs of on-the-go correspondents.
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0 The Shrinking Frontiers | Filtering systems allow corporations, libraries, and nations to deny access to Web content.  Harvard researchers find that even individual stories can be blocked as the freedom to roam becomes curtailed.
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0 Researching People on the Internet | One of the most basic tasks that a journalist faces is doing background checks on people. Online public record databases are a big help but might not be so easy to find. Part one of two.
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0 The Online Babble Barrier | Many stumbling blocks to creating a multilingual Web site exist, the cost of translation being a big one.
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0 A Three Dimensional Depth | Photojournalists can now capture the geometry of objects and create photos online that permit viewers to see the images without putting on special glasses
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0 Document Reading Made Easy | A programmer in Southern California believes he has solved the problem of sorting through piles of government documents -- software many generations ahead of the tools typically used by computer literate journalists today.
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0 When Machines Become Writers and Editors | A new tool for journalists, executives or even average news consumers could help them manage information overload. Newsblaster uses artificial intelligence techniques to author leads by culling online news reports, sorting them and summarizing them
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0 Keyhole News vs. the Big Picture | Putting control in the hands of consumers may be creating a cramped world outlook, but personalization works for those short on time. The strengths of online news are also its weaknesses.
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0 Eclipsing the Sunshine of E-Government | At a time when both government agencies and the public are ready for better Internet services, several high-profile examples of e-government are dogged by pressing issues.
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0 DIY News | While repurposing may be frowned upon in some quarters, much of the appeal of what many sites offer comes from the ability to put together news the way you like it, when you like it.
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0 Terrorist Attacks Against the U.S. -- A Reporter's Resource | For journalists and journalism educators following the story on the terrorist attacks against the U.S., finding information on the Web has been, at best, unruly. Here is a useful list of Web resources for researching the issues
Keyhole News vs. the Big Picture Kramer, Staci 2002-04-02
When Machines Become Writers and Editors Pavlik, John 2002-02-05
An Audio Panacea? Sullivan, Ben 2001-11-30
Taxonomy Software to the Rescue Maio, Paola 2001-10-12
Terrorist Attacks Against the U.S. -- A Reporter's Resource Grabowicz, Paul 2001-09-25
Examples of Cultural Differences in English Usage Stroehlein, Andrew 2001-08-28
Journalist, Syndicate Thyself Sullivan, Ben 2001-07-19
Content Management for the Masses Sullivan, Ben 2001-06-28
Convergence Exposed! Anzur, Terry 2001-05-22
XML: Deriving Applications from Information Biggs, Wes 2001-05-17
Getting Data from the 2000 Census Grabowicz, Paul 2001-05-02
Web Publishing with XML Biggs, Wes 2001-05-01
Chinese Opinions Collide Online Qiu, Jack 2001-04-12
Tech Trends for 2001 Dent, Patrick 2001-02-22
News.com: Innovation or Irritant? Gardner, Susannah 2001-02-13
2000 Fizzled as The Internet Election Schafer, Alison 2001-02-01
Navigating News Archives Online Grabowicz, Paul 2001-01-21
In With Five New Online Publishing Tools Dent, Patrick 2001-01-02
Online's Millennial Fiction Schwartz, Hillel 2000-12-29
Notes From Online’s Millennial Fiction Schwartz, Hillel 2000-12-29
Research Labs Database Pavlik, John 2000-12-01
What We See and Hear: Accessing News Pavlik, John 2000-12-01
What the New Media Research Labs Say About Content Pavlik, John 2000-12-01
What the New Media Research Labs Tell Us Pavlik, John 2000-12-01
Romanian Election Enters Net Battleground Ulmanu, Alex 2000-11-16
A Redesign With a View Gardner, Susannah 2000-11-09
Is CueCat online journalism's next biggest thing? Benning, Jim 2000-10-30
Immersive News Technology: Beyond Convergence Pryor, Larry 2000-10-11
An Explanation of 'Immersive news' Pryor, Larry 2000-10-09
Religious Texts Online Grabowicz, Paul 2000-08-30
Giving the Reader Independence Lanson, Jerry 2000-08-24
A Brain-Numbing Multimedia Experiment in Convention Coverage Layne, Ken 2000-07-31
Tips on Researching Non-Profits Grabowicz, Paul 2000-07-21
Survival Guide for Buying a Computer Dent, Patrick 2000-06-22
Property Records Online Grabowicz, Paul 2000-06-09
Privacy on the Internet: a Simple Solution? Dent, Patrick 2000-04-26
Airline and Aviation Information Online Grabowicz, Paul 2000-03-06
'People shot. Economy good. News at 11.' -- The condensed world of cellular content Scheer, Robert 2000-03-03
Camera Bridges Gaps Between Traditional, Digital Photography Dent, Patrick 2000-02-16
TV Journalism's Interactive Features Heinonen, Ari 2000-02-07
Better Internet Search Engines (Part 3): Special Features Grabowicz, Paul 2000-02-01
The Wireless Primer Dent, Patrick 2000-01-29
Adding Depth to Your Online News Dent, Patrick 2000-01-13
Y2K As A Great Disappointment Staff, OJR 2000-01-10
Post-Mortem: The Bug Appears to Be Beaten Staff, OJR 2000-01-06
The Age of the Internet -- Hysteria, Hyperbole and Profit Scheer, Robert 2000-01-04
Viruses Sneak in Under Cover of Night (and Y2K) Staff, OJR 1999-12-16
When the Bug Bites, Who Will Help the Bitten? Staff, OJR 1999-12-13
Are People Being Ignored for Y2K? Staff, OJR 1999-12-13
Will the New Year Be Rung in with a (Big) Bang? Staff, OJR 1999-12-13
Don't call us, we'll call you - if we can Staff, OJR 1999-12-13
It's January 1, 2000 - do you know where your money is? Staff, OJR 1999-12-13
Y2K Media Watch Top Ten List - Y2K Media Sites Staff, OJR 1999-12-08
Y2K and Millennial Links of Special Interest Staff, OJR 1999-12-07
School's out . . . forever? Staff, OJR 1999-12-03
Reporting Y2K: Are the Reporters Y2K Ready? Staff, OJR 1999-12-01
Better Internet Search Engines (Part 2) : Traditional Agents Grabowicz, Paul 1999-12-01
Key Lesson of Chernobyl Has Been Lost Scheer, Robert 1999-11-30
Crossing Censorship Boundaries Gavi, Susan 1999-11-24
Better Internet Search Engines (Part 1) : Intelligent Agents Grabowicz, Paul 1999-11-10
Is there a doctor (with working equipment) in the house? Staff, OJR 1999-11-10
Is the check really in the mail? Staff, OJR 1999-10-22
Airplanes won't fall from the sky. So what will happen? Staff, OJR 1999-10-22
(Don't) Spare the Cost, Spoil the System -- A More Detailed Look Dent, Patrick 1999-10-21
Putting Together a Performance PC Dent, Patrick 1999-10-21
Let there be light (please!) Staff, OJR 1999-10-20
A Virtual Bridge for Peace V.G., Jaideep 1999-10-14
Congressional Information Online Grabowicz, Paul 1999-08-26
Federal Legislation Online Grabowicz, Paul 1999-08-03
Multi-sourcing Your Internet Knowledge Dent, Patrick 1999-07-27
Y2K in Religious and Mainstream Media (Part II) O'Leary, Stephen 1999-07-23
Y2K in Religious and Mainstream Media: O'Leary, Stephen 1999-07-16
Mobile Reporting with the Palm VII Ryan, James 1999-07-15
Internet Music Resources Grabowicz, Paul 1999-07-14
Hollywood Movies and Celebrities Grabowicz, Paul 1999-05-27
Downloadable Audio News: A Model for the Post-PC Future? Ryan, James 1999-05-21
Playing Audible Files Ryan, James 1999-05-21
Health Resources on the Internet -- Part II Grabowicz, Paul 1999-05-07
G2 sidebar: Analog, Digital and Encoding Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 sidebar: SureStream Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 Server delivers custom-fit video Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 sidebar: Rendering G2 Video Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 sidebar: Downgrading the G2 Player Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 Player boasts good quality; buggy release Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 Sidebar: SMIL Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2 Codec gives Web video respectability Dent, Patrick 1999-04-29
G2: RealNetworks' A, B, Cs of Web video Dent, Patrick 1999-04-24
Health Resources on the Internet - Part I Grabowicz, Paul 1999-04-16
Cool Web Tools Lasica, J.D. 1999-04-13
Old Media Firms Dig a Grave With Shovelware Pryor, Larry 1999-04-09
The Pulse of Tablet Technology Fidler, Roger 1999-04-02
Educational Statistics on the Internet Grabowicz, Paul 1999-04-01
The Net: A Journalist's Ultimate Reference Guide Grabowicz, Paul 1999-03-04
Censor the Internet? Filters Get Smarter Prosser, Jennifer 1999-03-01
Speeding the Delivery of Online Content Kessler, Michelle 1999-02-25
Finding Experts and Sources Online Grabowicz, Paul 1999-02-03
Finding Information on Court Cases Grabowicz, Paul 1999-01-05
Finding Information on Foreign Countries Grabowicz, Paul 1998-12-09
Internet Phone Directories Grabowicz, Paul 1998-11-17
The Emperor Has Beautiful Clothes Pryor, Larry 1998-11-05
Automatic Translation Richard, Emmanuelle 1998-11-02
Journalist Identity Card Bergeonneau, Marie 1998-11-02
Crime Statistics on the Web Grabowicz, Paul 1998-10-24
Implementation Notes Biggs, Wes 1998-10-22
A Starr is Borne Biggs, Wes 1998-10-22
Political Campaign Contribution Info Grabowicz, Paul 1998-10-02
How Safe Is Your Site? Thomas, Douglas 1998-09-17
Hacker Infighting Thomas, Douglas 1998-09-17
The Politics of Hacking Thomas, Douglas 1998-09-16
Corporate Information Online Grabowicz, Paul 1998-09-15
Value-added E-mail: A Publishing Alternative to the WWW Welch, Matt 1998-09-04
Getting It on the Web Grabowicz, Paul 1998-08-31
An interview with cDc's The Deth Vegetable Thomas, Douglas 1998-08-13
Technology and Smoking Guns Goldstine, Ethan 1998-08-11
To Protect and Serve! Goldstine, Ethan 1998-07-09
China and the Internet: People Will Talk Fromson, Murray 1998-07-04
The Making of a 'Darkside Hacker' Thomas, Douglas 1998-07-03
Combat spam and subscribe! Goldstine, Ethan 1998-06-05
RealSystem G2 Takes Web Streaming to the Next Level Gardner, Susannah 1998-05-27
China Sidebar Shaw, Joy 1998-05-06
Why Hackers Hate Microsoft Thomas, Douglas 1998-04-29
Dreamweaver Empowers Online Editors Dent, Patrick 1998-04-29
Online News in Nepal:How World Wide is the Web? Parsons, Cherilyn 1998-04-17
Online News in Nepal:Roadblocks on the Information Superhighway Parsons, Cherilyn 1998-04-10
Wearables: The New Computer-as-Clothing Line Raouf, Neda 1998-03-31
The State of Web Video: Today's Problems… and Tomorrow's Solutions Gardner, Susannah 1998-03-31
Picking out the Gems of Internet World Dent, Patrick 1998-03-31
Tracking Web 'traffic' Smith, Travis 1998-03-01
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