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Andy Dickinson.net
http://www.andydickinson.net
A blog about the point where journalism and technology meet
Recent Posts
The holy grail of digital media
God: What are you doing now? King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord. God: Well, don’t. It’s just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing. Now knock it off! A bit of link bait that title I know. But imagine that you had follo...
Print and the newsroom center of gravity.
“In every newsroom there’s a power center, and the reporters know where the power center is and they will follow it,” says Ken Sands, former online publisher at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. “I can’t think of on...
Google translate: Sports Journalism in any language
Don’t be a Google Stranger (Image by Jacking.c via Flickr) Amongst the marking and other stuff a few things have been pushing the ponder button. One of the the things was the recent updates to Google Translate. Even if you haven’t used...
Are newsrooms the new starving garrets?
Image by amos1766 via Flickr I thought as a writer you could just get paid to write I heard that phrase in the cafe to day as I was working on lectures for next week. It was a small group trying to get their heads round arts council funding an...
Video bullies its way on to the updated CNN website
The new CNN homepage CNN have updated their website. I like the layout although I think the boxed content and the ad on the right are a little to similar and the movement of the ad is very distracting. But they aren’t going to move their adR...
Advice on using your flip to shoot video
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’m doing a lot more video this year as part of my digital teaching. One reason for that is we have bought a boat load of Flip video recorders to play with. That means we can do video without the big cam...

