Our Group Blog Presentation..

LG

Robbie

Our group blog - presentation

This is my speech for my group blog presentaion




LG

Robbie

Our Group Blog - Presentation

This is my presentation for our group blog ...





LG

Robbie

STOMP it into your system

I first heard about STOMP about back in 2006 when i was writing case studies on the media profile on a few different countries. Singapore was one that really stuck out and has played in my memory since.
There media (mediacorp) is owned by the government (People Action Party - which has been in power since 1959), and hence nothing dishonest is said about them.
So the release of STOMP - an interactive website that people can sms mms almost anything in and it will be published online was something that i wondered why the government would allow.
Then i thought about it.
At closer inspection STOMP does not really delve into any political issues within Singapore rather it just brighten up the website against Straits Times - have a look, the pictures below are a screen grab of each of the front pages of the websites.



Stark differences, no?

Below is just a short video from the website demonstrating the type of material shown on the website..

You can see that its clearly has nothing to do with anything that is relevant to Singapore.

Despite this I love the idea of STOMP, and it can now be seen on most citizen journalist websites such as www.crickey.com.au, which is an Australian citizen journalism website. Here like with STOMP you can send in photo's, video's etc. and it will most likely be put up on the website - if of course it is interesting.

I do like the fact that STOMP has opened up Singapore's media, and believe it has been beneficial to the country.

LG

Robbie

Tools for reporting (podcast)..

I am hoping that this works, its a podcast from last weeks reading - week 7. I found out that through 'Blogger' you cant directly upload podcast but rather have to use a third party site and i am using box.net and hoping that this will work...

http://www.box.net/shared/0gbvbct37r

Listen in.......

Tools that i use..

This weeks reading was titles "New tools for reporting"
The reading goes through new social media tools that can be used in different ways to produce a story for reporting.
I use most of the tools that are explained in the reading, and i just wanted to quickly explain these in a short video blog..





LG

Robbie

"Oh my Citizen Journalist"

This is a post for my group blog, it seems that edublogs dont let you upload videos, or i cant figure it out so this is a video that i will have linked on our group blog...




Robbie

Code of ethics for bloggers???

I read about the idea of a blogger having to abide by a code of ethics...
This is just a short video in reply to that....
enjoy.




LG

Robbie...

Freeeeee!

Check out my latest vlog, its on week 4 reading by Chris Anderson:

"Free! Why $0.00 if the Future of Business"




I really like Chris Anderson, and think that he poses some fantastic ideas...

You can subscibe to his blog Wired: Tech Biz. - http://feeds.wired.com/techbiz/

or his website: www.wired.com

LG

Robbie

The average Joe Blow....

This weeks reading titled “User-generated content and the changing news cycle” written by Stephen Quinn and Deirdre Quinn-Allan, gives us an insight into the world of a citizen journalist. A citizen journalist can be anyone, any average Joe Blow, all it takes these days is a mobile phone, which in 2009 i can almost safely say everyone has one. The power of a mobile phone, having the technology of a camera, video camera, audio recorder, and the internet gives anyone to become the next walkley award winner..

There are many cases of how street journo's have shaped and influenced news and information. The best most recent example was the London bombings in 2006, which saw some of the victims using there mobile phone to take photos from inside the disaster area, these photos and video footage were then passed on to news outlets all over the world and the footage was then showed live to the globe.









With technology giving us this opportunity, the role of a journalist is rapidly changing, we saw from last week how convergence has changed the newsroom into a multimedia world. But citizen journalism has meant that its not always the paid news outlets that are breaking stories but rather anyone who can write a blog, record a podcast or even update their twitter account.

So what does this mean for newspapers? Well they become redundant? A thing of the past? In my opinion, yes, there gone. With the new age of social media upon us, the average Joe can get his news from anywhere, whether it be through a twitter feed or an online newspaper such as crickey.com.au, its everywhere. Plus how many trees does it cost to produce a daily newspaper? The daily paper is something that has all but gone from our lives.

I will finish by repeating what i said in my last post, gone are the days were a journalist specialised in a particular field (IE print or broadcast), now days a journo must have the ability to reach his/her audience on every different medium.

This is just a part of multimedia and the new world of journalism.

LG
Robbie

"Where is the knowledge we have lost in information"

This weeks readings: "Why and How Convergence is Emerging" has stemmed some serious thoughts within my mind, and it was only while reading it that i began to think of Karl Pilkington, a English radio producer, best known for producing and co-presesnting The Ricky Gervais Show. He has a qoute that has stuck in my mind for some time now, and it says "the less you know the less you have to worry about" which i see as a great qoute to combat T.S. Elliots' qoute from the poem "The Rock" it goes ''Where is the knowledge, we have lost in information".
Whilst Karl Pilikington might be the most dim witted, idiotic person to ever bless the air of English radio this idea that the less you know the less you have to worry about is brilliant, and so true if you think about it, lets take for example the recent bushfires within rural and outback Victoria, now had you not read a newspaper, listened to radio, or watched television it would not be something that you would have worried about, whilst this idea is extremely foul and harsh it is true.

Convergence is something that within my four years of University I have had a lot to do with. COnvergence within a newsroom, i have been forced to learn. Gone are the days when a journalists wrote a story for their paper and thats it, nowdays, a journalists will take out, well instead of just writing it im going to show you a quick video of what a journalist today might take out into the field, as part of their multimedia skills and their new world of journalism.....




Thats it for this week....

Look forward to the following weeks.

LG

Robbie

Welcome and Enjoy....

Welcome

Hi ny name is Robert Cumbrae-Stewart, I am currently a third and final year student at Deakin University in Melbourne , Victoria...

I have a strong interest in the PR industry and hope that maybe next year I can aim to work in the corporate PR section.

Currently i am studying, Multi-Media Journalism, PR Campaigns and Tactics, and Broadcast Journalism. I am also about to undertake an Internship at Mango Communications, which i am highly looking forward to...

I am 21 years old, and am a demon follower, please dont take this away from me, as i feel that in the following years we really can excel as a football club.

Hope all is well, i am hoping that in the future this blog will contain many different aspects of multimedia including some video blogs as well as some podcasts and many different forms of pictorial journalism...

I hope anyone can start to take a following to this blog and look forward to my future posts....

Cheers
LG

Robbie