ERICA ZUCCO

Archive for the ‘TECHNOLOGY’ Category

NPR Hour by Hour- platform by platform.

NPR posted a slideshow on its Web site that I think will be interesting to content creators and distributors alike; it charts consumption of NPR media across platforms hour by hour. (Take a glance below).
NPR’s Hour-By-Hour Audience By Platform
At first glance, the findings aren’t all that interesting. The results for on-air programming were pretty standard: [...]

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FIELD GUIDES: MOBILE JOURNALISM

I put this field guide together with journalist Brian Pellot when we were working with company VeriCorder to test and experiment mobile media production applications for the iPhone. We aimed to explore what had already been done by newsrooms in terms of “mobile” journalism, and to find some organizations/individuals following the movement. I’d be [...]

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MOBILE MEDIA PRODUCTION: Exploring what works, what doesn’t and new possibilities

The VeriCorder in Vancouver experience (read more here) really sparked my interest in the capabilities phones & other small, portable mobile devices have not just for media distribution, but for media production. Because most of my reporting experience is in the realm of video, I’m especially interested in the implications more sophisticated smartphones will have [...]

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VeriCorder in Vancouver: mobile journalism at its finest

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was in Vancouver for the past ten days or so reporting on Olympics-related news while experimenting with cutting edge media production technology. Just wanted to fill you in on exactly what we did, who we were working for, and what the experience was like!
For our [...]

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ADDING ADMOB: Consumer groups fear Google acquisition would infringe on privacy, competition

This morning, Center for Digital Democracy executive director Jeffrey Chester and John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog submitted a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking the FTC to block Google’s acquisition of AdMob. The letter claimed that the deal would “lessen competition in the increasingly important mobile advertising market,” and cited three main problems:

Harm to [...]

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