Editor, revised

Feed me, Internets.

I’m not shy about adding feeds to Google Reader. I’ve got 79, which is neither astronomical nor shabby. But today I noticed that I regularly turn to a mere handful for reliably good dirt on online journalism, social media, multimedia, etc. I can always expect solid links, instruction, inspiration and news about the news from:

• Teaching Online Journalism
• 10,000 Words
• Journerdism
• Cyberjournalist
• Romanesko

Now that I’m making better use of Delicious and try to feed it with a bunch of great finds pertaining to online journalism every day, this just isn’t enough.

Queue 10,000 Words, which recently had a great post on the 20 Essential Feeds for Multimedia Journalists.

Got any more essentials that 10,000 Words didn’t mention? Spill ‘em here.

Links for October 27th from 23:27 to 23:43:

• How to Use FriendFeed as a News Ticker | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion - This kind of intrigues me. For this ticker to convey much information, I'm going to need to follow more people on FriendFeed. Goodbye Twitterific?
• Time to move on… « Mastering Multimedia - Among the many ringers to the head brought by the recent S-R layoffs, the effect on Colin's video-expansion efforts was a painful punch to the kidneys. I know he'll master his photo/video juggling act yet.
• Teaching Online Journalism » Reassessing newspaper video - What's up with newspapers and video these days? "What is still frigging hard about all this — a news Web site today is not the buffet table that a printed newspaper used to be. I am not browsing around randomly on your Web site, happening upon your loveliest desserts or videos as I peruse the latest miserable financial news."
  Damn, that's a good point.

I’m copping an idea from Mark Luckie at 10,000 Words (hat tip also to Palewire, who’s done a lot with word clouds).

I used Wordle to create a word cloud of stuff I’ve written about here (it’s above).

It was super simple.

1. Go to Wordle.
2. Type in the url for any blog or site that generates a feed (e.g. atom, rss)
3. Use the Wordle menu bar to customize the appearance.



4. Export it as you wish. I chose to use the Grab function in Preview to save a jpeg.

I didn’t realize I was using the word “posts” so often. How boring.

How to make a paper rose from Andrew Zahler on Vimeo.

Before I went on vacation last week, I shot and edited a video to go with a story running in our Home section. The subject: How to make a paper rose.

I had never made a how-to video before. Here’s what the experience taught me.

More… »

Journerdism once again steered me to an interesting item, this time about Google getting the itch to map the terrain under Earth’s oceans.

I’ve always been fascinated with all things oceanic. The geek in me hopes Google Ocean happens just so I can mess around with it. But this item also got me thinking about the potential for integrating this technology with other media. Granted, as a journalist in the Inland Northwest, Google Ocean wouldn’t lend itself to our coverage as well as Google Streetview has with, for example, business reporter Parker Howell’s blog covering growth and development, Here’s the Dirt.

But I hope bigger media outlets, especially magazines and documentary filmmakers, let their imaginations run with the possibilities. Imagine visiting nationalgeographic.com, reading a story about weird deep-sea creatures like this guy, then being able to zoom around the canyons where it lives via Google Maps. An incredibly rich layer of information.

Or imagine an interactive Web component accompanying the BBC’s breathtaking series “The Blue Planet.” You could navigate the programs as a series of clips such as the one below geocoded to corresponding undersea locations. Or track the migration of featured species.

I’m sure I’m only scratching the surface of potential applications. Any more great ones out there?