AngryJournalist launched a couple weeks ago as an anonymous confessional for, well, angry journalists. It asks the question: Why are you angry today?
Not all journalists are angry, and in the spirit of celebrating these dark times, I give you HappyJournalist, which asks the question, Why are you happy (to be a journalist) today?
Enjoy.
Last November I mentioned Foamee, the ‘Twitter Piggyback’ web site / service that allows you to keep track of beers you owe people.
Well, there’s another Twitter Piggybacker (hat tip to Adam Howell for the term and the link), this one with a local information bent: Commuter Feed. To quote,
Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you post reports on traffic and transit delays in your local area using Twitter.
Commuter Feed is a community-generated traffic report, published by anybody stuck in traffic with a twitter account and a cell phone. You can subscribe to the traffic reports for your area, and get twits when something new pops up. Will this work? Possibly — seems like exposure will be Commuter Feeds biggest challenge. Do newspaper-dot-coms have the same exposure challenges for the web apps and communities they launch? No, no they don’t.
So while some news organizations (such as my employer) are getting busy doing the shovel-dump publish of their headlines onto twitter, well, there are other people out there looking for ways to share and make local information more useful to the folk who live there.
Ken Otterbourg, managing editor of the Winston-Salem Journal (where I was working before I came to Denver), has a tale of an awesome photo of the lunar eclipse that a reader submitted:
A reader submitted that photo, which looks great. But, when the photo editor was readying it for print, well, the image told a different story:
Read the full story at Otterblog.
Related: Hackzine posts on how to detect forged photos algorithmically. Also, Ken Otterbourg wrote a part-two to his eclipsed post.