The State of Chicago News Media 2009

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Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series to Focus on the Impact Philanthropic Prizes Have on Innovation

Schwab Charitable, one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing donor advised funds, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership today announced their next Philanthropy Speaker Series event.… Continue

Added by Crystal Thomas on February 4, 2010 at 4:50pm — No Comments

13 Considerable Factors Before You Buy Essays!

What criterion do you have to judge to buy an essay online? … It is very common that every time you search for an essay writing service to buy essay, you get thousands of sites in the search engine result. This huge list of sites makes it really complicated for you to pick one out of thousands services available claiming to be the best in market. At t… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on January 13, 2010 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Black Eyed Peas “Youth Voices” PSA Empowers Youth Through Digital Arts

The Adobe Foundation and The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation today unveiled a new public service announcement called “Plant Inspiration.” The PSA promotes the launch of Adobe Youth Voices, a non-profit that stresses the pow… Continue

Added by Crystal Thomas on October 8, 2009 at 11:04am — No Comments

U.S. House Prices Keep Climbing with a 1.2% Rise in June

Integrated Asset Services (www.iasreo.com) today released its IAS360™ House Price Index (HPI). Based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices moved ahead another 1.2% in June. With June’s gains--the fourth… Continue

Added by Erik Keith on August 11, 2009 at 2:13pm — No Comments

If Hemingway had a Nokia....

So this isn't really about journalism, but it still speaks to the conflict that exists between the internet and print. In Japan, technology is changing the way novels are written and read. Since 2003, cell phone novels are a trend overtaking the female youth population. They're written and posted online by non-professional writers, completely via their mobile phone.

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Added by Lindsey Reiser on March 15, 2009 at 11:17pm — No Comments

If a newspaper falls in the city, does it make a sound?

For journalists, changing the way we think about online journalism rather than changing the way we conduct online journalism may be the bigger issue when it comes to saving news groups. After reading this article about the BBC - their reporting was falling lax with fact-checking online content because it was viewed as less important - it seems to me that until many onli… Continue

Added by Lindsey Reiser on March 15, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

"Pippin-mippin" and "outersquash-intersquash" - Applications for Your I-phone Without the Rhyming

With I-phones being the rage, we can creat our own I-Phone-formatted site by using Intersquash and Mippin. These sites help customize websites for your phone and as a journalist on the go, one should be able to get access to any, if they have internet service on their phone plan, that is. Both sites are mobile friendly and converts codes in your phone which re-directs you to the site that you want to go to.… Continue

Added by Katie Vernoski on March 14, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

The Google Monopoly

In The New York Times’ business section, this past Thursday, there was an article about Google’s newest invention, Google Voice . Google Voice is revolutionizing the way we make and receive phone calls. It will allow people to sink their home phone, work number, and mobile devices so that they all ring when someone makes a call to one of those numbers. It can also have voicemails e-mailed to you o… Continue

Added by Jenn Sullivan on March 14, 2009 at 10:38pm — 1 Comment

Free Phone Service From Google...Count Me In!

The technology world is all a buzz. According to reps and the CEO's at Google, they are "goi… Continue

Added by Amanda Edwards on March 14, 2009 at 10:08pm — 2 Comments

Good Things Come From Recessions

My idea of entertainment is pretty sick and twisted. The fact that the economy has taken a complete dump over the last year has been quite intriguing for me. For instance, I actually ENJOYED the Christmas season because I focused on the "true" religious meaning of Christmas, as opposed to other years where I made tedious efforts to make sure everyone on my check-list received a card or a gift. Entertainment shows such as the… Continue

Added by Kristin Rencher on March 14, 2009 at 8:59pm — 1 Comment

Who cares if my hard-drive crashes now?

As someone who used to be a frequent caller to Dell Support, because my hard drive was always, crashing, I’m always intrigued when another website, which allows me to upload my information online, is launched. IDrive is a website which allows you to upload 2G worth of documents, pictures, videos, and music for only $4.95 a month. Now I don’t have to worry about… Continue

Added by Jenn Sullivan on March 14, 2009 at 7:46pm — 3 Comments

For only $499.99 anyone can be a journalist

A Sony news-like camera can cost about $3,000 but for only $499.99, anyone can be a journalist. Recently, Sony released a new camera, the… Continue

Added by Jenn Sullivan on March 14, 2009 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

E- News: The Wave of the Future

When we think of news being accessible online, so many equate that with the death of the newspaper. Why should we? Instead of thinking of it as a replacement, we should be thinking of it as a cost efficient addition. I started an emp… Continue

Added by Lisa F. on March 14, 2009 at 4:39pm — 1 Comment

Help me Obama-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope....

Anyone watching the 2008 presidential election coverage probably noticed the Star Wars-esque hologram projection that Wolf Blitzer was conversing with. The first ever hologram broadcast on CNN was news correspondent Jessica Yellin, reporting live from Chicago on the night of the election. She was followed soon after by music artist will.i.am talking with CNN's host… Continue

Added by Lindsey Reiser on March 14, 2009 at 2:10pm — 2 Comments

Personalized isn't better...

According to this chick...

In this list of It seems like a lot of the goals of media outlets for the future is to completely tailor the information to the viewer, or reader, or whatever. I think this wo… Continue

Added by Pat Flynn on March 14, 2009 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Blellow, mate

If you're online a lot, and I know you are, then you should check out Blellow. This may be the second networking site I've mentioned, but this one may be better than the first. Blellow is a career-oriented soci… Continue

Added by Shawna Kaiser on March 14, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

Swivel, Many Eyes

Okay, so I was checking out Swivel and Many Eyes, the sites that Jim Brady had mentioned in his interview with Steve Myers, and this is definitely great stuff to keep in mind... Brady talks about database journalism a few times, which I hadn't heard of, so first I went to Many Eyes and found countless 'visualizations'. The goal… Continue

Added by Shawna Kaiser on March 14, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Embrace Your Best Enemy

Three months into 2009, we still don't have flying cars, a cure for the common cold nor a solid solution or idea where journalism is heading. Will newspapers become fossilized and locked in some sort of time capsule for future generations to read about in digital textbooks and on wikipedia… Continue

Added by Adrian Finiak on March 13, 2009 at 11:33pm — 3 Comments