Links

We put this page together to collect all the links we’ve mentioned over the course of the workshop, and more, in one place. They’re organized by topics.

Ethics

• Online Journalism Ethics
  Guidelines from a conference convened by Poynter in August 2006. It includes a wealth of related links.
• What are the ethics of online journalism?
  From Online Journalism Review, a publication of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of South Carolina
• Weblog Ethics
  Six tips by Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog

Software, Tools, Digital Formats and Computing

• Jumpcut–edit video and slideshows on your web browser
• Snipshot–edit still images on your web browser
• Download Audacity
• Audacity wiki
  
• Soundslides manual
• Download Picasa
• Translator Beta–an online translation utility (appeared in one of Jessica’s slides on Monday)
• FileInfo.net–information about file formats (jpg, bmp, wav, etc.)
• Computing units (bits, bytes, hertz, etc.)

Training

• BBC Training & Development–free online courses on topics such as DV camera shooting, post-production, interviewing for radio, etc.

Research

• Google’s Advanced Search Made Easy
• Google Search Cheat Sheet

Comment, Analysis, Links About Online Journalism

• Online Journalism Blog by Paul Bradshaw
• BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis
• VIDEO: The Machine Is Us/ing Us (Arabic translation), commentary on where the web and digital technologies are taking us by digital anthropology professor Michael Wesch

Participants’ Websites

• Menassat.com–“What’s happening in Arab media.” In English and Arabic.
• Ali Faleh
• Ali Hannoun’s Blog
• Chechane’s Weblog
• Christie’s Weblog
• desert wind
• Habiblkill
• Hadi’s Weblog
• Haidar Abdallah El Husseini
• Hasan Moustafa’s Weblog
• Hirory Press
• Jean’s Blog
• Lebanon Press
• Nanoushka’s Weblog
• Norma’s Weblog
• Zeinab’s Blog