March 29, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Link Roundup: March 29, 2007
DO YOUR E-HOMEWORK
Prof. Sree Sreenivasan of Columbia Journalism School shares his reading list for his students - a shortcut of need-to-know concepts, people, daily must-reads and more: The Changing Media Landscape
MUSIC COPYRIGHT FEES TO GO UP, UP, UP?
Via Freepress.net: “All ‘webcasters,’ nonprofit and for-profit, small and large, face a massive hike in the royalties they pay every time they play a song.”
Yikes - this could impact alts’ ability to offer music on their sites. If you’re interested, FreePress.net has a petition to sign to stop the rate hikes.
GET A FREE BOOK, MAYBE LEARN SOMETHING
“News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms are Learning to Change” is the title of a new book by Michele McLellan and Tim Porter. A free copy is available to folks who take a survey at NewsU.org, Poynter’s interactive learning portal.
OREGONIAN POSTS THEIR PICTURES TO FLICKR
As reported by JoeThinks.com, Oregon’s daily is posting their staff images to their Flickr account - along with a link to the story in question. It’s a novel idea to drive traffic from the active Flickr community.
Steal this idea, but do it better…
- Be an active part of the Flickr community. Create contacts for your paper’s account - most of the time, those folks will add you as a contact too.
- Share your images with multiple groups on Flickr - people browsing group content will see your pictures, increasing the click-thru opportunities to your site.
[via Journerdism.com]
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Tags: copyright, flickr, free stuff, music, reading
Mark Friesen:
April 2, 2007 at 7:49 am
Hey, thanks for the blog love, Laura.
You’re right about needing to do more than just dump your photos on Flickr. We’ve been adding photos to groups, especially the local ones. Before a big war demonstration a couple weeks ago, I posted a note to the most active local group telling people to tag their own demonstration photos with a specific tag and that we’d link to it. Within a couple of days, there were nearly 400 photos in that tag; only about 100 of them were ours.
As far as contacts, we’ve had about 36 people make us a contact already, and that’s without us creating any contacts (which is on my list of things to do.)
Mark Friesen
The Oregonian