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Entries from February 27th, 2011

Chapter 7: Making audio journalism visible

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 7: Making audio journalism visible · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Briggs points out that with just a microphone, recorder and free software, you can create full-featured segments that sound like radio episodes and distribute them as podcasts to build a loyal audience.  This is what this chapter is all about: audio journalism. So why is audio journalism important? Capturing in words a story’s particular sights […]

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Great Search for Food (or Google) Lovers: Google with Recipe View

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Great Search for Food (or Google) Lovers: Google with Recipe View · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

It seems like Google is never out of ideas to make Web-searching more interesting and intriguing. The following video shows how to use Google’s recent addition, Recipe View to search recipes for any keyword you type. The search filter can narrow down the results with ingredients, cook time and even amount of calories per serving. […]

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Tech Blog #5

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #5 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

When is an online comment defamatory? If you post something libellous on Twitter about a local rival politician, and have only 30 followers, you can get sued. If you say something potentially libellous, using a pseudonym, on a UK newspaper site, with page views in the millions, you’re fine – that’s just “pub talk”. While […]

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Five ways you can use Twitter for bloggers

February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Five ways you can use Twitter for bloggers · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Twitter. It’s been the buzz of the past few years. Now, that it has made it big, everyone is encouraged to jump on the bandwagon and get with it.  Here’s are the top five ways you can get in on the hype: 5. Interesting drives traffic With Twitter, if you are smart, witty or cool enough, you […]

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