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  • A week of posts on the following areas:
    • RSS
    • Mobile
    • Entrepreneurship/enterprise
    • Flash
    • ???
  • Combined RSS feed of all the feeds PaulB subscribes to (and any other we can suggest) - use Yahoo! Pipes or other tech
  • Daily digest of what's happening in online journalism - rota of team members looking at the Bloglines feeds at http://www.bloglines.com/public/paulb. Sign up below:
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    • [NKB: Do you have any concrete specs or guidelines for such project? I'd love to participate in this, but, IMHO, your readers are already RSS-using, tech-aware users who need little help to keep in touch with the news they want. We new media people keep telling traditionnal journalists how little legitimacy editors have in setting the agenda of their readers. Such a summary can find an audience if our subjectivity (in choosing articles) had a great value for readers. Now, I doubt that many people are interested in what we interns, journalism students will select.

    • Webbalert, which aimed at offering a daily round-up in the tech industry, looks like a failure (see dwindling Alexa numbers), despite Morgan Webb's experience in the field and her other, more visual USPs in the -mainly male- geek community.]

      [PB: Fair point. But if any team member feels they want to get to grips with the sector more, then this may be one way. Alternatively, it may also be a way to cover non-English language blogs for an English-reading audience]

  • An 'Online Journalism Atlas' - guide to what news orgs are doing online around the world. So far...
    • UK - Paul Bradshaw
    • Brazil - Gabriela Zago
    • Kyrgyzstan -
    • Belgium - Dorien Aerts (approached but not confirmed)
    • Netherlands - Bas Timmers?

      [Do you have in mind a king of blognation specialized in online journalism, ie more blog-like than the Editor's Weblog's new media page? Or would it be more like a static directory of these int'l organisations' experiences? Or special blog posts on OJB when something big happens in the non-English speaking world?] Anyway, I (Nicolas) 'd gladly add another bullet point:]

      [PB: No - I'm thinking more Wikipedia: a collection of articles about online journalism in each country, e.g. "in the UK the Guardian has consistently innovated with podcasting and Flash interactivity; the BBC has focused more on user generated content, etc. etc.]

       

    • France - Nicolas
    • Spain- Lola [LOLA: yes, I was wondering the same thing as Nicolas... ok, I can do it, no problem!]
  • Related 'Google Map' of OJB readers
  • Geotagging the OJB - see http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/85/up-your-end-how-to-geotag-your-blog-posts-and-what-you-can-do-with-the-information/
  • English language reports on what's being said in the Spanish, Portuguese, German and French-language blogospheres
    • French language blogs - Nicolas
    • South American blogosphere - Darcy
    • South American blogs (Portuguese) - Gabriela
    • Portugal's blogs - Alex
    • German language blogs
    • Australasian blogs - Tristan
    • North American blogs - Mary
    • Indian blogs
    • Hebrew [Nicolas: I've added a couple of pages on the Israeli and German web. Now, I don't 'monitor' these markets as I do for France, but I'd be glad to do help cover a story if a something pops up over there]
  • Spanish, Portuguese, German and French translations of the most important posts 

  • [LOLA which kind of posts you mean? about which topics are you thinking about?] 

    [PB: Posts about online journalism. I'm sure there are some great blogs in those languages with insights which I and most of the Western world are unaware of because they don't read non-English blogs. A first step might be to identify those bloggers]

    [Gabriela: and how about doing the opposite way around? -- translating some of the OJB posts to other languages?]

  • (Podcast?) interview with Jane Singer, author of 'Online Journalism Ethics'
  • Book reviews
  • Larger piece around citizen journalism projects - each team member interviews a different person. Suggestions? Steve Outing (US), Dorien Aerts (Bel)...
  • Large piece around user generated content - each team member interviews a different person. Suggestions? Scoopt (UK), Scoeps (Netherlands)...
  • the Online Journalism eBook - a collection of the most important blog postings/articles from around the web - and around the globe - on a range of subjects, in one free PDF eBook (including links). This may involve translation. Here are some suggested headings:
    • Databases (Holovaty, ??)
    • Flash journalism (Mindy McAdams, ??)
    • Video (Andy Dickinson, ??)
    • Audio
    • Blogging (Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, ??)
    • Future journalism
    • Networked journalism/crowdsourcing/etc. (Jeff Jarvis, ??)
    • ???
  • 'It's not about the content, it's about the service' - examples: Boing Boing; BBC; Archant geotagging; TPM; Twitter
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