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Internet TV Charts

Have a look at a new service which allows you to track the most popular videos across YouTube, Google Video, Digg, and VideoSift.

The service - Internet TV Charts - are updated once a week on Sundays.

There is a problem for us non-english language types: they have filtered out non-english language content which is a bummer.

NewspaperVideo email list

En ny epostlista för tidningsfotografer som numera tar video för tidningens webb.
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Are you creating video for your paper's website? Feeling lonely and outcast?

Join the NewspaperVideo email list for fellow photographers who have discovered the joys of dropouts, codecs, nle's, and bitrates!

Newspaper video journalists are a rare but rapidly-expanding breed.  While publishers seem to be gung-ho on video, newsrooms often don't seem to know what to do with it. Maybe this'll help figure it out.

The membership is vetted and is intended for newspaper staffers; it should be low traffic. Some of the topics I'd like to talk about:
story telling
newsroom structure and politics
workflow
workload
assignment vs. authorship
web players
traffic measurement
ad placement
codecs, bitrates, compression
gear
audio
video vs. SoundSlides vs. Flash packages
etc

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewspaperVideo and sign up.
Please tell me who you are, and real names....

portal on research news from Asia

ResearchSEA, is a resource portal for the latest research news from Asia.

ResearchSEA connects journalists and the public with the latest news and key experts from the most respected research institutions in Asia.

The portal has six research news themes: Medicine, Science, Technology, Business, Culture and People.
There is an "ask an expert" function,

Historia.se

Nu finns en söktjänst för historisk statistik - Historia.se.

Från hemsidan:

Syftet med Historia.se är att vara en portal för historisk statistisk, att presentera historia i siffror. Inriktningen är främst på ekonomisk historia. Hemsidan har tilldelats medel för samverkan med det omgivande samhället från Stockholms universitet (ekonomisk historia). Redaktör och webbmaster för hemsidan är Rodney Edvinsson, fil. dr. i ekonomisk historia vid Stockholms universitet. Det är viktigt att ha i åtanke att historisk statistik inte är någon exakt vetenskap, och ju längre bakåt i tiden man försöker skatta olika serier desto större blir osäkerheten. Olika definitioner kan också ge väldigt olika resultat. En del av den statistik som publiceras på denna hemsida utgör pågående forskning - dessa data kan därför komma att justeras framöver.

The Use of the Internet by America's Newspapers

The Bivings Report is a very useful blog for anyone interested in following the growth of web 2.0 and its integration into American media markets.

They also have an interesting podcast.

Amongst its recent reports is:

A new study of the top 100 newspapers which highlights how newspapers are embracing the Internet. Among the findings:

• 80 of the nation's top 100 newspapers offered reporter blogs. On 63 of these blogs, readers could comment on posts written by reporters.
• 76 of the nation's top 100 newspapers offer RSS feeds on their websites. All of these feeds are partial feeds, and none included ads.
• Video is offered by 61 of the newspapers.

Firstly I wonder how long it will be till we start to get ads in RSS feeds - surely it can only be a matter of time.
Seccondly, and what I find surprising, is not that US newspapers are using the web to reach new markets (A bit of a no-brainer) but the 20% of the top 100 do not use these tools.
It would be interesting to read what the basis for this is: lack of insight or a planed strategy. And if the latter - what do they think they know that we don't?

Cuba Documentation Project

Collection of declassified U.S. government documents related to Cuba, covering the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the death of Che Guevara, relations between Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy, and U.S.-Cuba "baseball diplomacy." Part of the National Security Archive at George Washington University Library.

Bush violates the Constitution(again?)

President Bush's penchant for writing exceptions to laws he has just signed violates the Constitution, an American Bar Association task force says in a report [PDF] highly critical of the practice.

The ABA group said the president has overstepped his authority in attaching challenges to hundreds of new laws.

The attachments, known as bill-signing statements, say Bush reserves a right to revise, interpret or disregard measures on national security and constitutional grounds.

"This report raises serious concerns crucial to the survival of our democracy," said the ABA's president, Michael Greco. "If left unchecked, the president's practice does grave harm to the separation of powers doctrine, and the system of checks and balances that have sustained our democracy for more than two centuries."

organization manuals for state governments (US)

In the run-up to the coming US elections the following link to  blue book resource may be useful to non-US reporters:
[Blue books are the organization manuals for state governments, listing members of the legislature, the functions of state agencies, and contact information for officials.]

State Blue books (Alaska State Library)
* Links to the state government manuals of the 50 states
* Manual typically include directories of the agencies, biographies of the legislators, some statistics, and election data
* Many but not all have web links

Taken from the State Government and Politics pages at the University of Michigan Library

Social networking to be banned in US schools?

The BBC (and others) report on a possible banning of social networking sites in schools and libraries by a new law.

The Deleting Online Predators Act tries to limit access to the networking sites which have become hugely popular with minors.

The act has already been approved by a large majority in the House of Representatives.

Critics say the act is too broad and could mean a huge number of websites are cut off from users.

The act defines social networking sites as follows:

(i) is offered by a commercial entity;
(ii) permits registered users to create an on-line profile that includes detailed personal information;
(iii) permits registered users to create an on-line journal and share such a journal with other users;
(iv) elicits highly-personalized information from users; and
(v) enables communication among users.

By this definition Myspace, Blogging sites, del.icio.us and even Amazon would be banned.

SkypeCast with Chris Anderson of Wired

A  SkypeCast with Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired Magazine, and author of the best-selling book, The Long Tail is available and worth a listen.