Briggs Chapter 4

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Microblogging: Write Small, Think Big News in 140-characters Photo credit: AntiqueImages  BUY IT HERE!   The twitter chapter! Basically I’m going to break it down for you in a few basic points. Real-time uses of Twitter: Evacuations Tradgedy Trial Coverage Broadcast news Start using Twitter, Tweet! Establish your goal Have a topic Make a network […]

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Briggs Chapter 3

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Have you ever heard the phrase, two heads are better than one? Briggs moved on in “Journalism Next” to crowdsourcing. What is crowdsourcing? “It is a relatively new term, coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 article for Wired News. Think of crowdsourcing like outsourcing, the term it spun off from. Crowdsourcing harnesses the sustained […]

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Briggs Chapter 2

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Advanced Blogging The rules are different with blogs. Blogging reporters play off other information they find online, even linking stories and blogs that might have been thought of as competition just a few years ago. Three characteristics define a blog: Frequently updated (recently updated stuff on top) Entries are called, “posts” and each have a […]

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Briggs Chapter 1

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We’re All Web Workers Now Photo credit: smileham/flickr …Says Mark Briggs. This thirty some page chapter dove straight in describing the basics of how the internet works and the technical contruction of web pages . Briggs had a graph like picture to help teach about Bits and Bytes. A comparable image I found was on a […]

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