After the Sept. 11 attacks 10 years ago, CyberJournalist.net covered the online coverage and shared some of the best online journalism done at the time. Unfortunately due to the ephemeral nature of the web most of that coverage is long gone. With the anniversary nearing, we’ve combed through...
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“The 9/11 Memorial: Past, Present and Future” is a new iPad app that looks at the World Trade Center using scores of videos and photos. Since being released last week, it’s quickly risen to be the #11 downloaded app in the News category in the iTunes app store. It’s by far...
Keep reading » O’Reilly Media has published a free ebook, “Big Data Now,” which is an anthology of the data-related content from O’Reilly Radar. The ebook covers data issues, the application of data, data science and tools, and the business of data. The major themes go in depth on: Data...
Keep reading » The Online News Association and the School of Communication at the University of Miami have announced the finalists for the 2011 Online Journalism Awards. Eight awards come with a total of $33,000 in prize money, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation,...
Keep reading » CNN has bought Zite, an iPad app that offers personalized discovery of news content in a sleek design. It will continue to run Zite as a stand-alone business, while also incorporating some of its technology into its websites and other products Zite is one of the better personalized news apps on the...
Keep reading » NYC has set up a website for residents to submit damage reports for the city from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene. A number of non-profits have teamed up for a similar initiative along the entire East Coast. So far the NYC map mostly consists of reports and photos of trees knocked down, along with a...
Keep reading » Poynter.org examined all the major hurricane tracking maps online and says the five best are… MSNBC and The Weather Channel WCTI-TV, the ABC affiliate on the North Carolina coast iMap (appeared on WashingtonPost.com and elsewhere) The New York Times The Associated Press
Keep reading » Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced today he is stepping down as CEO, will go down as one of the most innovative CEOs in history. Here are some quotes from him over the years about innovation, design and technology. (These were selected from a much more exhaustive list of Jobs’ quotes WSJ...
Keep reading » As soon as a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck the East Coast today, Twitter users jumped online. Web analytics company Chartbeat, which tracks traffic on hundreds of news sites, said it quickly broke previous records for web traffic across its sites, with more than 4.6 million visitors across them...
Keep reading » Now that that social media has become an unavoidable part of digital life, product designs need to adjust the way they approach their jobs. Facebook has put together a few tips about how to think about social design, which it describes as “a way of thinking about product design that puts...
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