HAM420 Convergent Journalism

Adrian Miles

Adrian miles is coordinator labsome honours studio RMIT university, where he specialises in videoblogging, networked literacies and pedagogies.

New Media Chap 8

Terry Flew, author of New Media: An Introduction has updated this title and here is a sample chapter

 Link for class http://www.swin.edu.au/sbs/media/motif/video/

Apple’s Guide to Getting Started with iMovie
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovie_HD_6_Getting_Started.pdf

Video Shooting Tips
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/shooting_tips/

This is a fantastic basic resource that covers all of the tech stuff you need to know – but remember, the best way to learn to is have a go! It’s never as complicated as the books make it sound!

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/interviews/sound.html

A more techie but very simple intro to sound, lighting, editing and tips for interviewing.

Online newswriting shares characteristics of newspaper, broadcast and public relations writing, three topics covered in many “News 101″ classes. Online journalists, whether professionals writing for http://washingtonpost.com or “citizen journalists” self-publishing at http://blogspot.com, also practice the fact-gathering and fact-checking skills learned in reporting classes, as well as the headline, caption and summary writing taught in editing classes.

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EPIC 2015
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

Interactive Narratives
http://www.interactivenarratives.org/

Society of News Design Award winners
https://www.snd.org/competitions/sndies.lasso

Online Journalism Review’s links to multimedia stories
http://www.ojr.org/archive.cfm?topic=multimedia

JLab’s Cool Stuff
http://www.j-lab.org/coolstuff.shtml

Join the News University
http://www.newsu.org/profile/

and take the Course “Steps to Multimedia Storytelling”

Hi everyone

Welcome to Online and Convergent Journalism for 2007. I look forward to seeing your writing featured here on the Convergent Journalism blog!

If anyone else is interested in reading up on this whole “virtual news sources” thing…

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/business/reuters16.php

http://secondlife.com/newsletter/2006_10/

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/
seven-pounces-in-media-frenzy/2006/10/18/1160850962901.html

The article
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/16/1160850846458.html

The official site
http://www.entropiauniverse.com

OPEN SOURCE
The term of the open source is that software or program that is allocated in the internet for free in purpose of promoting its concept to the community. The software or the program can be configured by user because the source code that is developed is in a form of available to be re-created. There is also no fee to download the software or the program, and for accessing that, there is license guaranteeing anybody to use, modify and improve the code. According to http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php , there are conditions that the software or the program must comply:
1.      Free Redistribution
The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale
2.      Source Code
The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form
3.      Derived Works
Software can be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
4.      Integrity of the Author’s Source Code
The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code
5.      No Discrimination Against Persons or Group
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons
6.      No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor
7.      Distribution of License
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed
8.      License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program’s being part of a particular software distribution
9.      License Must Not Restrict Other Software
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software
10.  License Must Be Technology-Neutral
Problesms that may be occur:
§          Lack of high quality and usablity work
§          Malicious threats such as Virus and Trojan
§          Hijacking work
Links that related to open source:
www.apple.com/macosx/
www.php.net/
www.sql.org/
www.unix.org/
www.linux.org/
http://www.perl.org/
http://www.apache.org/
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/
http://www.mozilla.org/
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/