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Hubski – the new Reddit? | The Red Ferret Journal
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Instead of joining communities, you follow people and/or topics (aka tags) to find content that you like. So new content is posted and found via tags and people rather than from general community feeds. This structure seems to minimize the problem of great posts being buried by LOL gifs all the time, because the best content doesn’t compete across the community or for example a subreddit, any more than a tweet competes against the whole twitter stream.
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How the Financial Times has upped its mapping game | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
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The ability to provide large maps that can quickly scale between orbiting overview and street level has been made possible by MapBox’s new Vector tiles format, which fetches tiles quickly and applies customisable styles as the image is rendered, according to Alex Barth, head of data at MapBox.
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Ahead of Bahrain protests, a sweep against citizen journalists – CSMonitor.com
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Four tips to help journalists create more videos – Knight Foundation
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One technique that many journalists have shared with us is to interview your subject off camera, and at the end, ask the subject to repeat the most interesting quote while you record them on video. Try to record the clip without your voice prompting the subject in the clip by counting down before you record. If you can set yourself up with a clean sound bite, you won’t have to create one later.
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