If you think one of them sounds like you, then please email your application [ edapps@nzherald.co.nz ] to reach us no later than August 21.
- - - posted 10.47pm by Neil Sanderson
Some things we've been working on this week:
Going Bananas.
The Herald is one of the sponsors of this Saturday's
conference
organised by the NZ Chinese Association. Our online coverage today includes guest commentaries by six people attending the conference.
Afghanistan assignment.
Our world news editor Kelly McAuliffe has assembled David Fisher's recent reports from Afghanistan in their own spot on the website, along with links to the NZDF site and picture gallery.
Middle East War.
Kelly has also revamped our war coverage page, including some timelines and graphics to help you keep up to date.
Mood of the boardroom.
Yesterday we published the Herald's annual business survey, plus we have follow-up stories for you at the same location.
- - - posted 7.10pm by Neil Sanderson
One of the things I look forward to
around this time each year is talking with the New Media class at AUT University. Today's visit was again a great pleasure, although I had to admit my embarrassment at not having blogged since last Friday. That's inexcusable of course but reflects the fact that sometimes life (OK, work) can interfere with blogging.
This year's class at AUT was one of the largest I've seen in quite a while, with about 30 students, and they had lots of interesting questions about nzherald and the online news business - in particular around the idea of
citizen journalism
. (I prefer the term amateur journalist - someone who does it for love rather than livelihood.)
I was interested to learn that very few of the students were publishing on the web through blogging or via community network sites (e.g.
MySpace
). Similarly,
RSS feeds
and podcasts were not widely used to obtain news and information.
It seems that all of the above remain niche services and technologies, but I believe at least some of them will stick around and become more popular. It took me a while to really appreciate RSS, but now I can't imagine not using it to keep up with the 30 or more blogs and newsfeeds to which I subscribe. It's just so convenient and efficient.
We often hear that people today are "time poor" and "information overloaded". And figuring out how to keep up with all the information can be just one more thing to have to deal with. It that sounds like you, I'd recommend taking the time to get to know RSS.
- - - posted 6.40pm by Neil Sanderson
