In 3 steps from the old vinyl to digital

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Before the digital revolution the type writer was your word processor, and the record player was your music center. What to do with your collection of big black disks? Throw them away, keep your record player, or buy new CD's? These options don't work for me as I am much attached to the old records and the memories that accompanies them. So digitize the whole collection. But how? Because after digitalizing, you need to store them and want play them over your amplifier and Dolby surround system in the den.
Published Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2013/01/5-steps-to-digitizing-your-old-vinyl-collection/

Google-Tax

Google News and other news search engines are 'content kleptomaniacs', said Rupert Murdoch in 2009 and he pulled his newspapers from the Google search results in 2010. However in September this year he changed his position and decided that the news snippets should reappear. Of course, traffic was going down and that means a loss of income. Now new ideas are emerging at the headquarters of cash strapped newspapers. Couldn't we start taxing Google and the others for publishing our content by creating an extension of the copyright, is the musing of media CEO's? Simply by creating a collecting society for Google tax, newspapers could join forces in the their fight against the digital thugs. Published at Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/11/should-newspapers-be-able-to-tax-google-news/

How Data Can Save Journalism

Everybody has a mouthpiece now and the social media are facilitating this. News is everywhere and breaking news on the front page becomes obsolete, because the news is already out on social media like Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Is this also the end of journalism as far as we know it? (http://memeburn.com/2012/08/will-the-real-journalists-please-stand-up/)

Tweeps, bloggers and Facebook adapts are taking over the role of journalists, but is it quality reporting and professional journalism? Print media at least in Western part of the world are in bad weather: news papers are closing or merging and journalists are laid off. The public finds the news on the social media, and is ending their subscriptions. On the other hand the demand for quality reporting: background, news analysis and investigations is rising. Data journalism is one of the possibilities to renew journalism. (Published on Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/10/how-data-can-save-journalism-as-we-know-it/)

De hinkstapsprong van de datajournalistiek

Datajournalistiek is een combinatie van verhalende journalistiek en verifiërende wetenschap. Phillip Meijer omschreef het in de Hedy Lamarr Lecture alsvolgt: “..in the second half of the 20th century, (when) journalists began experimenting with two new ways of making the quest for truth more manageable. Precision journalism borrowed the tools of science. Narrative journalism was based on art. In their early stages, these two approaches seemed to be in conflict. My argument today is that, in the 21st century, we should consider the possibility that we need both”. Heel mooi, maar deze combinatie heeft flink wat problemen. Zonder nuance en kort door de bocht: journalisten zijn slecht in rekenen en wetenschappers schrijven nogal saai. Hoe breng je dat samen? Henk van Ess en Hille van der Kaa, doen in het Handboek Datajournalistiek een geslaagde poging.
Gepubliceerd op De Nieuwe Reporter  en Persinnovatie

HA-Twitter Network in Fusion Tables

The interactive graph below is a visualisation of the HA Twitter network in Fusion Tables network.

HIGHWAY AFRICA TWITTER NETWORK

Analysis of the Twitter network at the Highway Africa conference using #HAGFMD2012. The prezi presentation shows the highlights. http://prezi.com/kdphldzuhdet/ha-twitter-network/ 

Drones: News that flies

Obama must in youth have liked to watch those hobby airplanes, small radio controlled aircrafts with a motor running on alcohol. At least that is what I think about when a read stories about drones used in war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama doubled the number of drones attacks, resulting in between 1,492 and 2,378 a total number persons died between 2004 and 2011. Automated warfare, that is very efficient, but being a reporter, how about drone journalism?
Published Memeburn: http://memeburn.com/2012/08/could-ar-drones-be-the-future-of-journalism/