Earlier this week Reuters’ global editor Greg Beitchman told an industry debate on the future of video that the agency wants to make more of its raw film footage available to clients. Speaking to Beet.tv in the video below, Beitchman explains how Reuters used social media, particularly Twitter, to source raw video footage from Iran during its coverage of the post-election protests: see the video … Continue reading Video from Beet.tv: How Reuters used social media in Iran to source video | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog

A few thoughts. First, this is the type of case that does belong in civilian court, as she is an American citizen. Second, this is, at first appearance, the exact type of case that should be tried as treason, and as a capital case, which doesn’t seem to be in the works. Third, our so-called by liberals/Bush haters “domestic surveillance” works Across the ocean Tuesday, … Continue reading Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views) Domestic surveillance works – JihadJane To Face Terrorism Charges

There’s definitely been a lot of interest around integrating Posterous and Google Buzz. Right now, they don’t have an API that would allow us to make Google Buzz a fully-featured autopost site, but here’s a simple way to get posts from your RSS feed into Google Buzz today. via blog.posterous.com This is a useful workaround to post to Google Buzz from Posterous Posted via web … Continue reading Integrating Posterous and Google Buzz – The Official Posterous Posterous

Just yesterday, a colleague sent me a Facebook message saying that she had been laid off from her newspaper. She wanted some advice on finding freelance work; I know she is not alone. Over the years, I have seen many newspaper staffers suddenly find themselves without the support structure that a corporation can provide -– no camera gear, no assignment editor, no benefits, no work, … Continue reading Avoiding Freelancer Freefall | Black Star Rising

A coalition of traditional and digital publishers this month will launch the first-ever concerted crackdown on copyright pirates on the web, initially targeting violators who use large numbers of intact articles. Details of the crackdown were provided by Jim Pitkow, the chief executive of Attributor, a Silicon Valley start-up that has been selected as the agent for several publishers who want to be compensated by … Continue reading Reflections of a Newsosaur: First web copyright crackdown coming

A council in the north of England has taken the unusual step of accrediting professional journalists to report from meetings using Twitter in a move that in effect bans local bloggers. The decision by Tameside council means that local bloggers, members of the public and even their own councillors are not permitted to tweet because they are not members of the press as defined in … Continue reading Bloggers excluded from council’s Twitter accreditation | Media | guardian.co.uk

Glyn sez, “The Love Police do an amazing job demonstrating how to get out of being searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act. Stopped by police outside the Tower of London, they avoid being searched, having to give their personal details and having their camera film looked at simply by stating the law, remaining calm and polite via boingboing.net Posted via web from Gary … Continue reading HOWTO beat the London cops on a BS terrorism stop – Boing Boing

Speaking at the Search Marketing West Expo in California, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that the software giant might buy micro-blogging giant Twitter in a not so distant distant future.  He also discussed the future of the search deal with Yahoo Inc in order to take on search engine behemoth Google. via itproportal.com Posted via web from Gary Austin Continue reading Microsoft May Acquire Twitter In Future – ITProPortal.com

“I am Nikon” will be a massive campaign that is suppose to start on Monday, March 8th, 2010 and will involve all aspect of photography: it will include a new portal (see previous I am Nikon dot com post), a Flickr group, an already existing YouTube channel and probably much, much more. via nikonrumors.com Posted via web from Gary Austin Continue reading “I am Nikon” campaign to start on Monday | Nikon Rumors

PHOENIX (Reuters) – The number of right-wing “Patriot” groups that see the U.S. government as their enemy more than doubled in the last year, fanned by anger over the economy and a backlash against the policies of President Barack Obama, according to a study published this week. U.S. The report by the Southern Poverty Law Center said 512 anti-government Patriot groups were active in the … Continue reading U.S. right-wing groups, militias surge: study | Reuters