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Welcome to the Digital Edge Blog!
The Digital Edge Blog focuses on developments, trends, best practices and more in newspaper digital media. The blog launched in 2006 (archives before August 2008 are here).
We look forward to reading your comments and contributions to the Digital Edge Blog. Questions? E-mail Beth Lawton at beth.lawton@naa.org.
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Idea Log: Cit-J iPhone App, Beat Reporting 2.0, Info Valet Recap
Cit-J Goes iPhone
The Knoxville News Sentinel
has launched an iPhone application that makes it easier for citizen journalists
to send information to Knoxnews.com. The iPhone app, which you can
download here, lets users upload reports and
include photos, categories and tags. The application is powered by
CellJournalist. Learn more about the app on NewAssignment.net.
 Beat Reporting 2.0
Patrick Thornton has a great
interview this week with Melissa Coulter of the Quad-City Times, who has been
training others in her newsroom on how to use the social Web to do better beat
reporting. Her training started with an introductory lecture, but she continued
with individualized training that looked at which social networks and
techniques work best for each beat. You can read more here,
or listen to the interview here (streaming
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Information Valet Project Recap
As a follow-up to last week's
posts introducing the Information Valet Project, I wanted to direct you to these
resources for more information:
Here's the 40-word description
we came up with during the conference:
A
permission-based ecosystem assuring privacy that allows you, in a trustworthy
way, to share personal information so that content providers and partners can
create a structure to provide you with content, applications and incentives
tailored to you and your needs.
A full explanation of the
Information Valet Project is here. It's
essentially a combination of the best elements of Open ID, e-commerce and the
Info Card Foundation's project, with privacy protected and convenience added. For
Web users and media companies alike, it sounds like a good idea - but the
hurdles to implementing it are great.
For the conference itself,
which was Wednesday through Friday last week at the University of Missouiri's
Reynolds Journalists Institute, Chuck Peters of Gazette Communications in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, hosted a live blog (Thursday, Friday).
In addition, see these blog
posts:
Deadline Approaching!
Don't forget! There's just
one month left before the deadline for the Digital Edge Awards and the Online
Innovator Award. With the end of the year fast approaching, this deadline will sneak up on you. Put "enter the Edgies" and "nominate Online Innovator" on your to-do list for this week!
Published
Dec 08 2008, 09:21 PM
by
Beth Lawton
About Beth Lawton
Beth Lawton is manager, digital media communications in the Business Development division of the Newspaper Association of America. She writes and edits many of NAA’s Digital Edge reports and the Online Publishing Update.
Prior to joining NAA two years ago, she worked as a Web producer and editor in newsrooms in the Midwest and the Caribbean.
Beth is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (MSJ New Media 2003).
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