Developing
the Craft: Help with Technology
This section
is designed to help journalists become more technology "savvy,"
to better understand how to use technology to further the profession,
and to understand technical topics, such as photo editing, page
design, etc.
Please let the Institute
know about links that do not work, or about sources we should
add. If a resource here helped you in covering a story, please
let us know by emailing al.cross@uky.edu.
PHOTOS/GRAPHICS
Desperately Wandering,
http://www.dwblog.net/?p=312
Here's a list of Photoshop tutorials.
Mappr, http://www.mappr.com/
Interactive site for exploring places, based on photos people
take.
Graphic Exchange News, http://www.gxo.com/
O ffers "graphic resources for creative minds."
Gallery of computation, http://www.complexification.net/
Writes computer programs to create graphics.
USING THE INTERNET
JournoList,
http://www.journolist.com/index.shtml
Annotated list of sites to help reporters, writers and editors
make good use of the Internet. This could be good for general
help to those computer-clueless.
Rolling your own search engines, http://rollyo.com/index.html
Site shows you how to create engines based on trusted sources.
Pulling data from the web into Excel, http://www.mrexcel.com/tip103.shtml
Dogpile search comparison tool, http://comparesearchengines.dogpile.com/
Geobytes, http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
This site offers a free Internet Protocol Address geographical
locator, so
that you can locate someone who sent you an e-mail. Just get
the IP address
from the mail, it will be in the "source" information
for the message,
usually in the e-mail header, and will have sets of numbers
separated by
periods. It may look something like this: 123.456.78.90. Then
enter this
in the locator tool to find out where the person lives.
Yahoo! Search Shortcuts, http://shortcuts.search.yahoo.com/
Search sites for a keyword.
CreativeGuy, http://www.jdempsey.com/2005/12/08/free-online-file-storagesending/
This site lets you share large files across the Internet.
Google Newsletter, trustworthy
websites
This site has advice for librarians (and others) on finding
trustworthy websites.
Can't Find On
Google, http://www.cantfindongoogle.com/en/list/1.html
If you can't find it on Google, post it here!
Wall Street Journal,
article
Here's an article on "the next big thing in surfing,"
tagging. From the story, "Tagging, however, can cut through
the online clutter to deliver more relevant bits of information.
That is because many versions allow users to search only sites
that other people have already deemed useful. It also makes
it easier to find desired information again."
Online Journalism
Blog, http://ojournalism.blogspot.com/
"Comment and links covering online journalism, citizen
journalism, blogging, podcasts, vodcasts, interactive storytelling,
publishing, Computer Assisted Reporting, searching and all things
Internet."
Legal Technology,
http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1146225613469
'Follow the e-mail trail": find out what you can learn
from data embedded in an e-mail header.
MISCELLANEOUS
COMPUTER ASSISTANCE
Comparing Excel
lists, http://www.mrexcel.com/tip096.shtml
Free online Excel course, http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC012005461033
The Reporters
Cookbook, http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Main_Page
This site is for reporters to share code, examples, tutorials
and other bits of information related to the practice of journalism,
especially computer-assisted reporting.
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