Beyond Blogs and Pods

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Beyond Blogs and Pods

• GIS, Databases, Social Networks, Attention and
  the Obvious

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The Obvious

• Attention Economy
• Deliver to phones and handhelds and cars
• Deliver in new formats
• Coming of Vblogs
• Trust, Reputation and Feedback issues
• More and more niche-media (Long Tail)

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Databases

• Phil Meyer was and is right -- database
  journalism is still the future
• Hyperlocalism by database aggregation
• Helping readers access and visualize
• Helping readers create, maintain and correct data
• Distributing the data in a way that readers can
  create knowledge
• Information sharing

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Using Maps for local uniqueness

• Google maps API for Gas Prices
• Durham Police Area Crimes
• Govt Facilities and Services (Orange)
• Tax Maps and more (Wake)
• NC OneMap Project
• National Map . Gov

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Social Networks

• How does news get into a social network
• How does news get out of a social network
• What are the press relations to social networks
• What are our ethical responsibilities to social
  networks