Zac Echola's Blog (7)

Talking Points Memo loves to crowd source their audience when it comes to large documents. They just post the files and wait for everyone else to sift through the mess.



Reporting comes out amazingly fast.



I recall the latest document dump from DeadSpin, regarding the Mitchell Report. All they asked their audience to do was find the names in the report. An accurate list was generated hours before… Continue

I've posted a new tutorial on my blog, make a photo gallery with a map using only free tools.

The project, depending on what you want out of it, usually takes less than an hour to produce.

You can see the final product here.

How would you go about this project? Would you do anything different? Let us know!

Does anybody know examples of newspaper, TV and/or radio sites that consistently link to original reporting done elsewhere, either automatically through trackbacks or by hand?



I'm specifically looking for examples similar to the sites described in these excellent pieces by Scott Karp and… Continue

Since the initial launch of Wired Journalists there have been some great discussions cropping up here. We've grown pretty fast and I've had trouble keeping up with everything.



I'd like to highlight some of my favorites so far (in no particular order).



Howard posted some excellent tips for growing audiences… Continue

KCNN has the entire book, Journalism 2.0: How to survive and thrive, A Digital Literacy Guide in the Information Age available, for free, here.

The book is packed with useful information and should prove to be a valuable resource for any journalist starting out on the wired path.

We've cracked the 100 user mark already and growing at a faster pace than I expected. This is amazing.



Let's begin ramping things up ASAP.



In the left column of the main page, there's a list of "Five Ways To Get Started." Check it out as soon as you're ready to, well, get started.



If you haven't already, check out the groups. These will be the main hubs of the network. Want to… Continue

Blogs in a nutshell:



For the uninitiated, a blog is, in a nutshell, nothing more than a publishing platform. Think of it like a series of Word documents that you can put up on the Web instead of putting them in a folder on your hard drive. They may have as little or as much organization as you'd like, but usually the most recent post ends up leading your page.



Blogs, however, are incredibly handy for journalistic purposes. Once we set them up--a… Continue