September 2010
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processing research
I thought my use of delicious was reasonably sophisticated, then I asked Alex how he uses it,
I work with lots of sources (whether from RSS, Twitter or other news and information sites) and Delicious is an easy way to keep track of these web links. I’m usually too lazy to tag, and occasionally when my firefox tabs get truly unmanageable (150+) then I’ll just use the firefox option...
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life as a foreign correspondent
Former Guardian Foreign Editor Harriet Sherwood writes about her new life as a foreign correspondent three months into the job. Previously, she wrote about her thoughts before heading overseas,
a correspondent’s role is surely to go beyond that, to dig out the stories that aren’t immediate “news”, to provide context and analysis, to allow those whose voices are routinely...
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four minutes
Twitter and the Internet have shaved almost 4 minutes off newswire “delay” since Krakatoa exploded in 1883,
When President Lincoln was assassinated… it took 12 days for that news to reach London. In the [20 year] interim, they had come up with the technological ability to build telegraph cables and put them underwater.
The result of this was that the sudden message that the...
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choose your battles
“It’s important to pick and choose your battles. It’s easy to overextend yourself on every single platform rather than figure out sweet spots,” he says. “[NPR] recognize that there’s a large group of people online that love what we do […] It’s important for us to stay engaged with these folks at a personal level and not just a 50,000 foot...
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managing news
I’m in the process of installing Managing News into the “backend” of Kigali Wire. Theoretically, it’s a good way to manage incoming newsfeeds and distribute newsworthy items. It also has some interesting collaborative tools, mapping and embedding features. I’m not sure if the frills are enough to make me switch from the combination of Google Reader, Delicious,...
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a lost generation of foreign reporting
Sunday newspapers present a weekly digest of selected world events, dictated by our current curiosities; we are so rarely asked to understand a foreign culture, merely to know about it. link
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scope to find things out
Thoughts of a Foreign Editor on becoming a foreign correspondent in the digital age:
Here comes the “but”. But correspondents also now found the emphasis on competitive news coverage inevitably meant less time to invest in original and distinctive reporting. If you’re filing several times a day and possibly through several media, there is simply less scope to find things out....
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you can't be in a hurry
“To begin with you photograph all the things that are strange and make you feel different, however, soon you start looking for connections.
Time is crucial to me. You can’t be in a hurry if you want to show a deep interest in a foreign culture and its people… …That’s why I try to use my pocket cameras as much as possible; they support the feeling of something unpredictable and...