This blog was part of the DW-AKADEMIE workshop “Introduction to Online-Journalism and Web 2.0″, which took place in Bonn, Germany, from November 16 until December 4, 2009. Have a look at the final results here: http://training.dw-world.de/ausbildung/blogs/bonn2009/ Thanks!

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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/ethics/

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Headline

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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/writing/

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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/reporting

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Sometimes Links can get very long.

--> http://files.posterous.com/boesch/5qLk84Rvg0fNifioHetprzj4LF5uAQ8DllckJ2qMgivb2JliIdIJl6W6AUGz/Foto.jpg.scaled.500.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=1C9REJR1EMRZ83Q7QRG2&Expires=1259743926&Signature=6gJJmfeEeQk56Iq6BFYQgs9%2FkUE%3D

You can shorten them using Services like tiny.url or bit.ly

--> http://tinyurl.com/airport-cologne

--> http://bit.ly/airport-cologne

You can choose an optional name. And - if you have an account - you can see how many people clicked on your link using bit.ly.

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Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses. (Wikipedia)

• What is CC?
• Who Uses CC?
• Legal Music For Videos
• CC-Images

A good example for the Evolution via CC is the "Did you know"-Video. Have a look here.

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Note: At this time, blogs hosted at WordPress.com are not allowed to insert embedding code. The directions below are therefore only applicable to privately hosted WordPress blogs.

To embed your slide show in WordPress, you will first need to upload the "publish_to_web" folder created when you click the "EXPORT" button in Soundslides or Soundslides Plus.

For more information on exporting, click here. For more information on uploading to your Web hosting company's server, click here.

All informations can be found here.

Further Infos on FTP - File Upload Explained - In Plain English!

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Pretty easy with http://www.ustream.tv

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Spreeblick is one of the most succesful Blogs in Germany. It was founded by Johnny Häusler in 2002. Here you can see Johnny talking about "und alle so yeah" in London:

Johnny was in a Band called "Plan B" ages ago. Try to find him in that Video.

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Links from Thursday's presentation:

Larissas podcasts:
http://www.schlaflosinmuenchen.com
www.slowgerman.com
www.ersatz.tv

Video on podcasting:
Podcasting in Plain English by http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting

Adam Curry's podcast: www.dailysourcecode.com

German Chancellor Merkel's podcast: via www.bundeskanzlerin.de President Obama's podcast: www.whitehouse.gov/podcast

Girl Geek podasts:
Rocketboom http://www.rocketboom.com
Geekbrief TV http://www.geekbrief.tv
Loaded http://cnettv.cnet.com/?type=node&value=13991
CommandN http://commandn.typepad.com/
Tekzilla http://revision3.com/tekzilla/

Godcasts:
Catholic Insider http://www.catholicinsider.com
iPadre http://www.ipadre.net/
The pope's podcast http://www.papst-podcast.de

News podcasts:
New York Times Audio www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html
New York Times Video http://video.on.nytimes.com/
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/
CBS www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/06/utility/main706903.shtml
Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/podcasts
Deutsche Welle http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,9540,00.html

Wanhoffs wunderbare Welt der Wissenschaft: http://wissenschaft.wanhoff.de/

University-Podcasts: (you have to have iTunes installed to view these)
iTunes U http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/

Software:
Audacity http://www.audacity.com
Übercaster http://www.ubercaster.com/
Castblaster http://www.castblaster.com/

To produce your RSS-feed:
Feeder (for Mac) http://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
MiraByte Feed Writer http://www.mirabyte.com/de/produkte/feedwriter.html
http://feedburner.com

To subscribe to podcasts:
Juice Podcatcher: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
Miro Podcatcher: http://www.getmiro.com/
iTunes Podcatcher: http://www.itunes.com (download & install it for free)
Podcatcher on a Stick: http://rotzoll.de/podblogger/mp3stick/

Free music you can use in your podcasts:
www.musicalley.com
www.garageband.com
www.jamendo.de

Directory:
Independent podcasts: www.podcastalley.com

Hosting service:
www.libsyn.com (smallest package $5 a month)

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1. Think of what you want to say
2. Record something
3. Edit it in Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net)

If the sound levels are differing, please do the following:
4. (optional) Export the file as a WAV
5. (optional) Open the program „Levelator“ (http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/) and drag the WAV file there
6. (optional) Open the new file „YOURFILENAME.output.WAV“ in Audacity, then go on with 7)

7. Export the file as a MP3 (and fill in the information in the little window!!! Title = title of your episode or „headline“, Artist = your name, Album = name of your podcast, for example „Made in Germany“, Genre = pick something other than Blues, maybe „other“ or „spoken word“)

Now your file is ready to be published on the internet. There are different possibilities to do that:

- You could use a hosting company like www.libsyn.com ($5 a month for the smallest package), where you have your own subdomain with a blog, RSS-feeds are generated automatically)
- If you have an existing blog and want to publish your episodes there, just upload them to your blog and open an account at www.feedburner.com to create your podcasting-feed
- if you are using Wordpress for your blog, then you should download and install the plugin „Podpress“ (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podpress/) to generate the little flashplayer and a feed. You can also use www.feedburner.com to generate your feed after you installed the plugin (this is what we did in the seminar, that's why I will show you the steps for this method:)

Publishing new episodes to your Wordpress-blog:

Open Wordpress and log in at:
http://training.dw-world.de/ausbildung/blogs/bonn2009/wp-login.php Click on „Media“ in the left column and after that on „Add new“. Upload your MP3-file. At the end of the uploading-process there will be a line at the bottom of your screen saying something like „File URL“. Please copy this URL.

Next you have to click on „Posts“ and „Add new“. You are then asked to enter a headline for your posting and some text describing the new episode. After you entered this information, scroll down to the end of the page where there is a section on Podcasting (if you have installed the PodPress-plugin). Click on „Add new media“ and insert the Location you copied before.
Below that, there is a prompt you copy, it says (define location). Copy it with the brackets, please, and insert it in the text of your blog-posting, where you want the audio-player to appear later on. After all of this, you click on „Publish“ in the right column, if you want the episode to be published right away. If you want to publish it at a later date, you can enter the date and time right there in the Publishing-box.

Done!

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If you ever run into something like this:

For some reason, all my *.jpg files have the name "Omnipage Image Document" in the 'File Type' column of Windows explorer.

Give that a try: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Download and run the JPE/JPG/JPEG Association fix. Hopefully, that will fix your problem.

I found that in this article: http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/browse_thread...

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We are using the Kodak Zi8 for our Videos. It is very simple to use. Another similar Camera ist the Flip. With Technology evolving it is even possible to use a "normal" Photocamera oder an iPod or iPhone for doing Video-Web-Reporting.

How to use a Flip Video Camera

How to Upload a Video to YouTube using a Flip

LINKS:

• Again - Mindy McAdams: Learn to shoot video
• Adam Westbrook: 6×6: video
• iPod Nano versus Flip
• Flip Has Little Chance In An iPhone World
• A News-Report shot with an iPhone for a US-Channel

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We already used Slide and Photopeach. As you have seen - these service are pretty simple and easy to use. All you need is a bunch of pictures and a stable internet-connection. But there are quite a lot of limitations. We talked about these as well. The biggest one: You can not work on the transitions. We are going to change that now. With yet again another tool. It is called Soundslides.

Soundslides is a slide show authoring program that was created by former photojournalist Joe Weiss in 2005. The application took the journalism industry by storm and quickly rose to become an industry standard for audio slide show authoring. Soundslides is a desktop application, which means you have to download it on to your computer. It's available for both Mac and PC and comes in two versions: a basic version which runs $39.95 and a pro version that costs $69.95. The trial and full versions of SoundSlides can be purchased and downloaded for free at Soundslides.

Some of the benefits of Soundslides include:

• An incredibly simple-to-use interface
• Very small learning curve, most of it is drag-and-drop
• Outputs files in Adobe Flash format, a very common Web format that works cross platform
• It was built for journalists

Some of the drawbacks of Soundslides :

• No video integration
• Runs a dynamic slide show from a folder of files, so it only works on the Web

Storys can be told with pictures, music, background noises, a narrator or interviewees talking. Think carefully about your concept of Storytelling! An read this article about it. 

More useful Links:

Here you can find a Step-by-Step Video-Tutorial

RGMP 10: Learn to use Soundslides

Embedding your slide show in WordPress

Great Example from the New York Times: 1 in 8 Million. (I Like 'The Walker' very much!)

Another Example from the New York Times: On the Streets (Snow!)

The Atlantic: A tour of Japan's mountain baths and hot springs.

More great Multimedia-Stuff can be found here

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Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008.

Friendster is another social networking site. It is still quite popular in Asia.

Orkut - Social networking and discussion site operated by Google. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.

Bebo - an acronym for "Blog early, blog often". Bebo is similar to other social networking sites.

Ning is an online service to create, customize, and share a social network.

Wikipedia - What is a Wiki? It´s explained here.

Skype - "With Skype you can make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like."

Twitter - Is the most famous Microblogging-Service. Explanatory Video.

Woofer some sort of Twitter in a long Version. You have 1400 charakters instead of 140 ;-)

iGoogle is a service to personalize Google pages. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the web to your page.

Netvibes is a free website that lets you personalize your web experience.

Delicious - "Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service."

Digg - "The best news, videos and pictures on the web as voted on by the Digg community."

StumbleUpon - "Free web-browser extension which acts as an intelligent browsing tool for discovering and sharing web sites"

Tagged  "Allows users to send messages, leave comments, browse photos, watch videos, play games, give tags and chat."

Wordpress is an open source blog publishing application and can be used for basic content management. It was first released in May 2003. All kinds of tutorials can be found here.

Ask - "Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions, local search"

Yahoo Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) site launched by Yahoo!

Youtube - is "the"  video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.  In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.

Picasa - is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos.

Flickr - another online photo management and sharing application

Multiply - "Users can create, share and discuss blogs, photos, videos and music with others as well as post reviews of movies and books, or share a calendar of events"

Scribd - "is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents"

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Further Links:

Kodak Guidelines: Simplicity

Kodak Guidelines: Rules of thirds

Kodak Guidelines: Lines

Kodak Guidelines: Balance

Kodak Guidelines: Framing

+ Ten ways to make your photos better

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Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information: information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.

O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conferences have been held every year since 2004, attracting entrepreneurs, large companies, and technology reporters. In terms of the lay public, the term Web 2.0 was largely championed by bloggers and by technology journalists, culminating in the 2006 TIME magazine Person of The Year - "You." That is, TIME selected the masses of users who were participating in content creation on social networks, blogs, wikis, and media sharing sites.

Web 1.0 was about reading. Web 2.0 is about writing.

Web 1.0 was about companies. Web 2.0 is about communities.

Web 1.0 was about lectures. Web 2.0 is about conversation.

Web 1.0 was top-down.  Web 2.0 is bottom-up.

Web 1.0 was edited and produced.  Web 2.0 is raw.

Web 1.0 was text.  Web 2.0 is video.

Web 1.0 was professional. Web 2.0 is amature.

There are quite a lot of so called Web 2.0-services. You do not need to know them all ;-)

The Dutch ICT think tank EPN (recently merged with ECP.nl to ECP-EPN) has produced this short movie, clearifying one of the Web 3.0 concepts. 

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1941: Zuse Z3

The Z3 was the first reliable, freely programmable, working computer in the world. Invented by Konrad Zuse  in 1941, the Z3 contained almost all of the features of a modern computer. The Z3 is about five meters long, two meters high, and 80cm wide. The Z3's memory: 64 words.

1969: Arpanet

Arpanet was the first real network to run on packet switching technology (new at the time). On the October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time. In effect, they were the first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
The first message sent across the network was supposed to be "Login", but reportedly, the link between the two colleges crashed on the letter "g".

1982: The Commodore 64

By 1988, Commodore was selling 1.5 million C64s worldwide^. Although demand for the C64 dropped off in the US by 1990, it continued to be popular in the UK and other European countries.

1991: The First Web Page

1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.

Plus: First MP3. The German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft developed MP3 technology and now licenses the patent rights to the audio compression technology - United States Patent 5,579,430 for a "digital encoding process". The inventors named on the MP3 patent are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Eberlein. Karlheinz Brandenburg used a CD recording of Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner" to assess and refine the MP3 compression algorithm. This song was chosen because of its nearly monophonic nature and wide spectral content, making it easier to hear imperfections in the compression format during playbacks.

1994: Netscape Navigator

The first widely downloaded Internet browser Mosaic, was released in 1993. While Mosaic wasn’t the first web browser, it is considered the first browser to make the Internet easily accessible to non-techies. Mosaic’s first big competitor, Netscape Navigator, was released the year following (1994).

1996: First web-based (webmail) service

In 1996, HoTMaiL (the capitalized letters are an homage to HTML), the first webmail service, was launched.

1997: The term "weblog" is coined

While the first blogs had been around for a few years in one form or another, 1997 was the first year the term "weblog" was used.

1998: Google!

Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.

2003: MySpace becomes the most popular social network

In 2003, MySpace opens up its doors. It later grew to be the most popular social network at one time (thought it has since been overtaken by Facebook).

2004: Web 2.0

Though coined in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, the term "Web 2.0", referring to websites and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that are highly interactive and user-driven became popular around 2004. During the first Web 2.0 conference, John Batelle and Tim O’Reilly described the concept of "the Web as a Platform": software applications built to take advantage of internet connectivity, moving away from the desktop (which has downsides such as operating system dependency and lack of interoperability).

2004: "The" Facebook open to college students

Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called "The Facebook"; later on, "The" was dropped from the name, though the URL http://www.thefacebook.com still works.

2005: YouTube – streaming video for the masses

YouTube launched in 2005, bringing free online video hosting and sharing to the masses. The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo.

2006: Twitter gets twittering

Twitter launched in 2006. It was originally going to be called twittr (inspired by Flickr); the first Twitter message was "just setting up my twttr".

2007: The iPhone and the Mobile Web

The biggest innovation of 2007 was almost certainly the iPhone, which was almost wholly responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and design.

2009: Here we are - right now!

This is another official update to the original "Shift Happens" video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.

Or have a look at Garys Social Media Count!!

MORE INFOS AND LINKS:

• A Little History of the World Wide Web
• The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
• The Wayback Machine

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