Transcript We The Media - Cindy Royal

Trends in Online Media
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
[email protected]
www.cindyroyal.com
www.onthatnote.com
tech.cindyroyal.com
Milestones in Multimedia
2000
Pre-1995
2006
OhMyNews
Wired Magazine - 1993
Macaca
AOL/Time Warner merger
NY Times on AOL - 1994
Invention of the Year Nando -1994
YouTube
2001
Person of the Year - You
1995
DotCom Bust
Google Buys YouTube
Craigslist launched
9/11 Tributes
$1.65B
Slate, Salon, USA Today,
Wikipedia launched
2007
Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia
2002
VA Tech
Inquirer online
Google News
Twitter tips at SXSW
1996
2003
Invention of the Year Washington Post
RSS
iPhone
Wall Street Journal
Google Buys Blogger
CNN/ YouTube Debates
Chicago Tribune
MySpace launched
2008
LA Times
MSNBC
CBS acquires CNET
2004
Candidates embrace
1997
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
social media
Blackhawk Down
Rathergate
EveryBlock.com
1998
Press Credentials to Bloggers
2009
Drudge Report
WikiNews, Facebook, Digg
Hudson Plane Crash photo
Google
2005
Iran elections
1999
YouTube
Politifact wins Pulitzer
Blogger
News Corporation buys
Everyblock purchased by
IndyMedia
MySpace
MSNBC
Web Development Categories
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Basic HTML design
Programming emerges
Blog Platforms
Content Management Systems
Other
Basic HTML Design
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HTML – early 90s, language of the Web
Became XHTML to add structure, conventions –
early 2000's; next gen is HTML5
Cascading Stylesheets – CSS - 1996
Javascript (1995), Flash (1996), AJAX
Web programming – PHP, ASP, Ruby, Python,
etc.
Web Hosting
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Domain registration/hosting – lots of options; I've used
doteasy.com; avahost.net, godaddy.com, bluehost.com
FTP Tools
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Fetch (Mac, free) - fetchsoftworks.com
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WS-FTP (PC, free) - ipswitch.com
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Net2Ftp – net2ftp.com - Web-based FTP
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FireFTP – fireftp.mozdev.org - Firefox Add-on
HTML Tutorials
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Barebones Guide to HTML - werbach.com/barebones
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W3 Schools - w3schools.com/html
Beyond the basics there's Flash, Javascript, PHP, audio and
video editing...
Blog Platforms
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Started as platform for online journaling; Web sites for
people who didn't know html.
Early platforms – Open Diary, LiveJournal late '90s
Blogger -started 1999 by Evan Williams (also Twitter) and
Meg Hourihan; purchased by Google 2003
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Movable Type – 2001; Six Apart
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Wordpress – 2003; can host yourself or on their site
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Posterous and Tumblr – fully featured blog platforms
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Web Programming
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Server-side
ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby,
Databases – MySQL
Powerful functionality, server-side includes, post
date to forms, populate sites with data
Gave rise to Content
Management Systems
Content Management Systems
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Wordpress has often been modified as CMS – free on
their site or monthly fee of $< 10/month in most cases
on another host
– With WP, pay for domain and access to CSS to
customize
– Customization requires knowledge of html/css
Drupal
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Joomla
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Other hosted
CMS
Web Frameworks
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Set up frameworks for Web programming
languages
Easy way to provide for common methods and
actions; connection to database
Ruby on Rails – written in Rails
Django - Python
CakePHP
Other
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Create your own social network with Ning or
Kick Apps
Online Tools
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Blogs – Blogger, Wordpress, Posterous
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YouTube
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Facebook or MySpace – set up groups; post content; stay in touch
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del.icio.us - social bookmark manager
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Niche Social Networks
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Ning - WebPubNET.ning.com
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LinkedIn
Flickr/Picasa – photo sharing sites
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Animoto/Vuvox – online tools for developing slideshows and video
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Second Life – virtual world
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Wikipedia - discuss credibility, have students contribute, wisdom of crowd vs.
gatekeepers
Twitter – microblog; good way to add new content to a website on a regular
Free (or cheap) Software!
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SoundSlides – make a photo slideshow
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Must be hosted on a Web site
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Difficult, but not impossible, to embed on a blog
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Soundslides ($39.95) must include audio (you can
tweak with a silent file); new Soundslides Plus ($69.95)
lets you choose whether or not to have audio
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Audacity – free; edit audio, create mp3 files
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iMovie (Mac) or Windows MovieMaker (PC) – video editing
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SnapZPro (Mac, $69) /Camtasia(PC, $179) – screen
capture; use for developing online tutorials
On The Go...
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Rise in mobile technology
UStream and Livestream – live stream with
camcorder and laptop
Qik.com & Ustream – stream LIVE video from
your phone!
Equipment
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You don't need expensive equipment
Most students have digital cameras or cell
phones that can shoot photos/video
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Low-end cameras with video
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Digital audio recorders
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Camcorders
Keeping Up
• Google News/Yahoo News - Technology
• NY Times Technology/David Pogue
• Wired News
• Scobleizer
• TechCrunch
• Digg
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang
• Techmeme
• SensibleTalk.com
• Social Media Today
• Mashable
• Smashing Magazine
• 10000 Words
Resources
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SXSW Interactive - www.sxsw.com/interactive
Wired Magazine - www.wired.com
Cyberjournalist.net - Great Work Gallery www.cyberjournalist.net/category/great-work-gallery
Online Journalism Awards - http://www.journalists.org/
Knight Digital Media Center www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org
Online Journalism Review Archives - ojr.org
Interactive Narratives - interactivenarratives.org/
We The Media by Dan Gillmor
Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
The Long Tail and Free by Chris Anderson
What Would Google Do? - Jeff Jarvis
Editor & Publisher Awards royal.reliaserve.com/eppy/winners2008.html
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication jcmc.indiana.edu