Comments for Ricochet by Chrys Wu http://www.chryswu.com/blog Where Ideas For Online News Bounce Around Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on What Are Your Favorite Online Tools for Reporting? by Judy Pokras http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2010/02/18/favorite-reporting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Judy Pokras Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:45:48 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=869#comment-277 Thanks, Chrys, for your helpful presentation yesterday!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-277">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Thanks, Chrys, for your helpful presentation yesterday!

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]]> Comment on What Are Your Favorite Online Tools for Reporting? by AramZS http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2010/02/18/favorite-reporting-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-276 AramZS Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:16:20 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=869#comment-276 Monitoring: Google Alerts, Google Search RSS feeds, Google's Subscribe to Site. Feedly. Seesmic for Twitter Search. Lazyfeed to see the latest info in various topics in real-time. Organize research: Delicious for groups of links. Publish2 to save bibliographic info for research. Diigo to cache versions of sites that might be changed or removed. Interview: Livestream.com - live web video and can be used with multiple cameras as well as screencasting. Edit resulting FLV files for free with RichFLV or motionbox.com. Skype + Call Graph to record calls and turn them into podcasts. Google Voice would also work for this. Audacity to edit the files. Crafting: Windows Live Writer to post to various blogs. Zemanta to find media to enrich posts. Photoshop Express for quick photo processing and sharing. CoverItLive for live blogs. Promote and Engage: Twitter, Bit.ly, Lijit, Google Analytics. Plus: Wordpress stuff: TweetMeme, Facebook Share, All-in-one SEO, Google XML Sitemaps, gooseGrade, ShareThis. I just did something similar to what it sounds like you are doing, so I had a list on hand. Good luck!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-276">1</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Monitoring: Google Alerts, Google Search RSS feeds, Google’s Subscribe to Site. Feedly. Seesmic for Twitter Search. Lazyfeed to see the latest info in various topics in real-time.

Organize research: Delicious for groups of links. Publish2 to save bibliographic info for research. Diigo to cache versions of sites that might be changed or removed.

Interview: Livestream.com – live web video and can be used with multiple cameras as well as screencasting. Edit resulting FLV files for free with RichFLV or motionbox.com. Skype + Call Graph to record calls and turn them into podcasts. Google Voice would also work for this. Audacity to edit the files.

Crafting: Windows Live Writer to post to various blogs. Zemanta to find media to enrich posts. Photoshop Express for quick photo processing and sharing. CoverItLive for live blogs.

Promote and Engage: Twitter, Bit.ly, Lijit, Google Analytics.

Plus: Wordpress stuff: TweetMeme, Facebook Share, All-in-one SEO, Google XML Sitemaps, gooseGrade, ShareThis.

I just did something similar to what it sounds like you are doing, so I had a list on hand.

Good luck!

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]]> Comment on How to Tell a Multimedia Story, Part 2 (The Pitch) by How to Pitch Tips From a Fast Company Staffer | Ricochet by Chrys Wu http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2009/01/27/how-to-tell-a-multimedia-story-part-2-the-pitch/comment-page-1/#comment-266 How to Pitch Tips From a Fast Company Staffer | Ricochet by Chrys Wu Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:15:21 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=588#comment-266 [...] more pitch guidance, read my post, how to pitch a multimedia story to [...]<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-266">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> [...] more pitch guidance, read my post, how to pitch a multimedia story to [...]

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]]> Comment on White House Blogs Bush’s Mideast Trip by sandrar http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/01/08/white-house-blogs-bushs-mideast-trip/comment-page-1/#comment-265 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:23:13 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/01/08/white-house-blogs-bushs-mideast-trip/#comment-265 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-265">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

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]]> Comment on Thought for the Day by Danny Dougherty http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2009/08/24/thought-for-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Danny Dougherty Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:37:16 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=775#comment-264 I love the original of that poster. I have a copy I've been meaning to get framed for ages. That one would actually be a nice counter piece to it too!<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-264">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I love the original of that poster. I have a copy I’ve been meaning to get framed for ages.

That one would actually be a nice counter piece to it too!

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]]> Comment on The Thing About Facebook’s FriendFeed Acquisition by Alison Rowland http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2009/08/12/the-thing-about-facebooks-friendfeed-acquisition/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Alison Rowland Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:45:18 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=747#comment-263 I'm not sure you're correct about the cookies being used to glean more data about users. Cookies can only be detected or read by the issuing website. The only exception to that is third-party cookies (usually from advertisers), which are placed via remote loading of content (such as a banner ad), and which that third party could use to track which of the participating websites you visited. Facebook and FriendFeed still can't access that data unless it's supplied to them by some third party with whom they have a relationship. In addition, acceptance of third-party cookies can be turned off in your browser, and it is off by default in Safari. See the link below for more info. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071600111.html If I'm off-base on this, I'd be interested to understand more about how the interplay of the sites and third-party cookies could work to increase spying on users.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-263">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> I’m not sure you’re correct about the cookies being used to glean more data about users. Cookies can only be detected or read by the issuing website. The only exception to that is third-party cookies (usually from advertisers), which are placed via remote loading of content (such as a banner ad), and which that third party could use to track which of the participating websites you visited. Facebook and FriendFeed still can’t access that data unless it’s supplied to them by some third party with whom they have a relationship.

In addition, acceptance of third-party cookies can be turned off in your browser, and it is off by default in Safari. See the link below for more info.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071600111.html

If I’m off-base on this, I’d be interested to understand more about how the interplay of the sites and third-party cookies could work to increase spying on users.

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]]> Comment on Have Reporting Work You’re Proud Of? Enter the Online Journalism Awards by Have a Look at These New Sites Around the Web | Ricochet by Chrys Wu http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2009/06/26/ona-online-journalism-awards-entrydeadline/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Have a Look at These New Sites Around the Web | Ricochet by Chrys Wu Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:52:54 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=731#comment-262 [...] Have Reporting Work You’re Proud Of? Enter the Online Journalism Awards (Hurry! Deadline is July 8.) [...]<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-262">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> [...] Have Reporting Work You’re Proud Of? Enter the Online Journalism Awards (Hurry! Deadline is July 8.) [...]

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]]> Comment on Chicago Tribune’s Social Media Strategy Yields More Fans, More Traffic by Chicago Help Wanted http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/08/19/colonel-tribune-social-media-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Chicago Help Wanted Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:23:32 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=186#comment-260 Twitter is awesome site for marketting.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-260">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Twitter is awesome site for marketting.

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]]> Comment on Revenue 2.0: Ideas for Making Money on News Sites by Matt Mansfield http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2009/03/22/revenue-20-ideas-for-making-money-on-news-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Matt Mansfield Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:09:59 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=695#comment-258 Thanks for coming and the great work at starting a conversation. Post up on the SND site now: http://tr.im/hGRM<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-258">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Thanks for coming and the great work at starting a conversation. Post up on the SND site now: http://tr.im/hGRM

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]]> Comment on One Last Look at the Rocky Mountain News Newsroom by Colin Waters http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2009/02/28/one-last-look-at-the-rocky-mountain-news-newsroom/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Colin Waters Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:14:31 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=689#comment-256 Having two newspaper of this size competing for the same market was nearly impossible. They competed directly against each other, unlike newspaper in New York. With the expansion of the Internet RMN was doomed.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-256">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Having two newspaper of this size competing for the same market was nearly impossible. They competed directly against each other, unlike newspaper in New York. With the expansion of the Internet RMN was doomed.

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