With 48 hours of video uploaded every minute and 3 billion videos watched every day, YouTube has come a long way since one of the site’s co-founders, Jawed Karim, uploaded the first video of himself talking about elephants at the zoo almost 7 years ago.
From the world’s largest library of online videos, here are several of the best YouTube channels for librarians.
Source: oedb.org
Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News
The social blogging site has hired a content executive and a Newsweek writer to document the service and market it to users.
A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City. The unused cable, called “dark fiber” is being snapped up by Google, who could become an nationwide ISP overnight.
Google has been buying up dark fiber across the country in recent years and plans to launch an “ultra-fast” fiber optic-based Internet service in Kansas City, Mo., later this year that will deliver speeds of around 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to download, say, the high-definition version of “Moneyball” from iTunes in about 30 seconds.
Interesting news, but we’ve got a long way to go.
“A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City.”
Source: thedaily.com
The Fox News Store at the Minneapolis Airport. (Taken with instagram)
NEW YORK, NY (September 28, 2011) — Internet ad revenues rose 23.2 percent—to a record $14.9 billion—in the first half of 2011, according to figures released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC US). The rate of growth more than doubled year-over-year, as last year’s first-half ad revenues of $12.1 billion had represented an 11.3 percent increase over 2009.
Source: soc.li
Patch editor has been told to start drumming up ad sales leads | Poynter.
A Patch editor from the East Coast tells Nicholas Carlson that coming up with advertising possibilities “is a bridge too far by any measure” and “requiring journalists — already run ragged by their normal duties — to do this is so far beyond the pale it actually makes my stomach hurt.” The editor says his job requires that he….
Tablet habits influence new BBC website design | CyberJournalist.net
The BBC is in the process of redesigning its flagship website to take into account readers changing habits — in particular, an increasing preference to swipe for content as a result of the rise of touch-screen smartphones and tablets. Content publishers are increasingly looking at the tablet space for web design inspiration — which is a good thing, since the designs of so many content sites are generally uninspired these days. So watch for this trend to continue.
The BBC has launched a beta site of the new design at beta.bbc.co.uk.
Seeking help on an idea in progress: Can open journalism work?
I’m looking for help in addressing a puzzle and exploring a promising idea called open journalism.
I arrived in June at USC Annenberg as executive in residence after 30 years in newspaper and online journalism, the last nine as top editor at The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Sacramento Bee. Since then I’ve been digging into questions that had become increasingly urgent to me as an editor.
They boil down to this: How do we fundamentally change the ways journalism works to serve people better in the digital era? How do we change not just the technology of journalism, but its culture?
In the past, newsrooms defined success in proprietary terms: “owning the story,” or beating the competition. If people wanted to know, they had to come to us — these were our stories, after all. This idea has never really held true. Now it is failing, out of step in a culture that is producing its own information and leans more toward sharing stories than owning them.
Open journalism captures a different mindset, one we’re starting to see in breaking news coverage and web journalism. It says: Everyone owns the story. Let’s all get it right.
(via Melanie Sill, @Melaniesill)
