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Twitter query

Just tried an experiment using twitter (my social medium of choice): A Twitterquery. It's a freelance story pitch in 140 characters. Query: Editors, my son (15) & I will climb Mt K & I'll write about it in 3K words, w/pix, video. #media #news #pu...

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Michelle Ferrier's review of CommunityQ

Here's the third in a series of CMS reviews that Michelle Ferrier's doing. She's also done reviews of Village Soup and Neighborlogs. Tomorrow, she'll do some side-by-side comparisons.

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Darren Hoyt commented on RJI Collaboratory's blog post 'Hyperlocal Site Wordpress Theme: Free copies to sites that will give feedback'

Thanks a lot for the mention, Amy. The theme is intended for WP but can easily be adapted to WPMU with a few changes. To address Barry's questions: Far too much emphasis on local tweets: Top right position with a strong contrasting color theme. ...

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Barry Parr commented on RJI Collaboratory's blog post 'Hyperlocal Site Wordpress Theme: Free copies to sites that will give feedback'

Wordpress is definitely removing barriers that have kept journalists from creating their own hyperlocal sites. This theme is more evidence of that and it implements a lot of interesting ideas. It seems to be pretty customizable, but the demo leav...

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Tom Vilot commented on Ruth Ann Harnisch's blog post 'Please Help - How Do I Design/Construct a Mini-Studio?'

Correction. It looks like dvMatte Pro does work with the latest Final Cut Express.

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Hyperlocal Site Wordpress Theme: Free copies to sites that will give feedback

Does your local news site use Wordpress? Or are you wanting to build a local news site in Wordpress? Then read on. A new Collaboratory member, Darren Hoyt (a a web designer specializing in news/magazine/hyperlocal-style sites) would like to exten...

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Tom Vilot commented on Ruth Ann Harnisch's blog post 'Please Help - How Do I Design/Construct a Mini-Studio?'

Ruth Ann, it took me some time to learn how to do a really good green screen. My first ones aren't great. I've gradually ironed out the kinks and learned how to make them probably about as good as they are ever going to be. I don't know what your...

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RJI Collaboratory commented on Ruth Ann Harnisch's blog post 'Please Help - How Do I Design/Construct a Mini-Studio?'

Hi, Ruth Ann My friend Tom Vilot, an independent video producer who runs Skyguy.com, offers a few quick tips: He told me: You can order green screen fabric from B&H photo. You need at least two good lights: one to illuminate the green screen, ...

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Please Help - How Do I Design/Construct a Mini-Studio?

I have the opportunity to create a mini-studio in a well-insulated, small, circular space. Where do I learn how to outfit this space? How to make a 'green screen'? What equipment to buy? Thanks for any suggestions. Ruth Ann Harnisch r@thehf.org

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Twitter query

Just tried an experiment using twitter (my social medium of choice): A Twitterquery. It's a freelance story pitch in 140 characters.

Query: Editors, my son (15) & I will climb Mt K & I'll write about it in 3K words, w/pix, video. #media #news #publishing #eco #green #sej

The shotgun approach rarely works, but I figured, why not give it a try? I'll report back what happens, but it's all an experiment, right? I had no idea the TweepML… Continue

Posted by Osha Davidson on November 8, 2009 at 10:29am

Michelle Ferrier's review of CommunityQ

Here's the third in a series of CMS reviews that Michelle Ferrier's doing. She's also done reviews of Village Soup and… Continue

Posted by Jane Stevens on November 8, 2009 at 9:47am

Hyperlocal Site Wordpress Theme: Free copies to sites that will give feedback

Does your local news site use Wordpress? Or are you wanting to build a local news site in Wordpress? Then read on.

A new Collaboratory member, Darren Hoyt (a web designer specializing in news/magazine/hyperlocal-style sites) would like to extend a special offer that might prove useful to some Collaboratory members.

He's created a pro-level Wordpress theme specifically optmized for the needs of local news sites. It's called… Continue

Posted by RJI Collaboratory on November 5, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Please Help - How Do I Design/Construct a Mini-Studio?

I have the opportunity to create a mini-studio in a well-insulated, small, circular space.
Where do I learn how to outfit this space?
How to make a 'green screen'?
What equipment to buy?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Ruth Ann Harnisch
r@thehf.org

Posted by Ruth Ann Harnisch on November 5, 2009 at 7:59am — 3 Comments

What's New -- Week of Nov. 2, 2009

* MyTopiaCafe pioneer and Collaboratory member Michelle Ferrier is doing a roundup of content management systems. Check out her post on Neighborlogs and take her poll on what platforms you use.

* Meet some of our newest members -- K. Daniel Glover is an insid… Continue

Posted by RJIWhatsNew on November 4, 2009 at 8:00pm

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RJI Talkfest Liveblog

First Day - Future of Newspapers May 18, 2009

POLL: Which Way Do We Go?

The RJI Collaboratory was launched with the notion we'd quickly go beyond talk and get to work on real projects that could create and support entrepreneurial journalism.

We recently asked your view on other seed projects the incubator should get started on right away. More than half of you took the poll below (now closed) to tell us: What initiatives do you think could be the most interesting? The most important? The most likely to yield immediate results? See the results below and watch in coming days as we respond with new Collaboratory initiatives.