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$18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site. What would you do if you had $18 million to redesign your website?

How to Use Your iPhone When Reporting

WFOR-TV News Director Adrienne Roark created quite a buzz a couple of weeks ago when he shot an entire story using the new iPhone. Poynter’s Al Tompkins chatted with Roark and Investigative Producer Giovani Benitez today to learn how to use an iPhone when reporting. During the chat they talked about the process that Benitez used [...]

Facebook launches “Fan Box” widget

Facebook has launched a new “Fan Box” widget as an extension of Facebook Pages. Companies with Facebook Pages can add the widget to their own home pages and it easily allows any visitor to become a fan with just one click. Here is the CyberJournalist.net Fan Box widget, which you can also now find in [...]

Online Journalism Awards entry deadline today

Today is the last day you can enter the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards. Don’t forget to apply!

Michael Jackson’s memorial one of biggest online events ever

Michael Jackson’s memorial today was one of the biggest online events ever traffic wise. Akamai says that it was the second-largest day in terms of total traffic on its network, according to Om Malik, who has lots more interesting stats.

Online Journalism Awards entry deadline extended to July 8

The deadline to enter the Online Journalism Awards has been extended to Wednesday, July 8. The 2009 categories are: The Knight Award for Public Service General Excellence in Online Journalism General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English The Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism Breaking News Specialty Site Journalism Investigative Journalism Multimedia Feature Presentation Online Topical Reporting/Blogging Online Commentary/Blogging Community Collaboration [...]

Wired Editor: Newspapers can learn from Club Penguin

Wired editor and “Free” book author Chris Anderson said, in a talk to the Guardian newspaper, that newspapers need to find a “pet for their penguin” – “freemium” things that they can charge for to support journalism. “When he talks about pets for penguins, he is referring to the Disney’s online game Club Penguin. This is [...]

The Daily Show visits The New York Times

In case you missed… The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c End Times www.thedailyshow.com

New Twitter site designed for journalists

JournoTwit was created by Andrew “Spode” Miller, a technology journalist, “to suit the fast paced, nomadic lifestyle of a journalist - but may well suit others.” He says: JournoTwit is a lot like TweetDeck, but web-based. It stores all your settings, and your last read tweet, remotely, allowing you to move from machine to machine to mobile [...]

Colbert pokes fun at Twitter and Goldblum death rumors

Watch here: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum