Using Google Maps for weather
June 30, 2005
Weather Maps is a cool new site that using Google Maps and personal weather station data to let you view real time weather information on a map.
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International Citizen Reporters’ forum
June 30, 2005
Here is coverage of OhmyNews’s first International Citizen Reporters’ forum citizen reporting and participatory journalism.
‘Inquirer’ to introduce ‘radio-style’ programming online
June 30, 2005
The Philadelphia Inquirer is launching a massive new project which will give every reporter and columnist for the newspaper a Web page where readers and journalists can interact about the day’s stories.
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Online news growing as a source
June 29, 2005
The Internet continues to grow as a source of news for Americans, according to a new study from Pew. One-in-four (24%) list the internet as a main source of news. Roughly the same number (23%) say they go online for news every day, up from 15% in 2000; the percentage checking the web for news at least once a week has grown from 33% to 44% over the same time period.
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Topix launches Canadian news
June 29, 2005
Topix.net announced today that it is expanding internationally and has launched a new dedicated news channel for Canada and local news for over 4,200 Canadian cities and towns. Users can search by city name, province or postal code. Topix plans more international channels and now offers online news from more 10,000 sources divided up over 300,000 news channels.
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Yahoo seeks to exploit Internet’s people power with new services
June 29, 2005
Timed with the launched of Yahoo’s My Web 2.0, The New York Times reports on Yahoo’s “rapidly growing array of Web services all seeking to exploit the Internet’s power to bring people together.” (Also see Terry Semel’s comments on the subject earlier this year.)
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El Pais launches youth site
June 29, 2005
ElPais.es, the Web site of the Spanish newspaper El Pais, has launched cross-media project (print, online and mobile) aimed at younger audiences called E3, Eva Dominguez recently reported on E-Media Tidbits.
“The website is based on Flash, which allows a very visual interface embedding video and audio in a seamless presentation,” she says. “The great challenge of the project has been the creation of a back-office tool that enables the dynamic integration of all this multimedia content in a Flash interface.”
Check it out at www.elpais3.com
San Francisco Chronicle adds podcasts
June 29, 2005
The San Francisco Chronicle is adding a series of new podcasts. They include…
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2/3’s of adults use search for news
June 29, 2005
In a new survey from Harris Interactive, 64 percent of online adults say they use search engines to find news or information about current events.
Newspaper of the future
June 28, 2005
The New York Times is the latest to heap praise on the Lawrence Journal-World for its convergence efforts. Now just about everyone has. Some interesting tidbits…
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