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LJ Digital: News Twitters get hacked left and right. Is this the problem with reporting breaking news online? Twitter should probably try to fix this.

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USA Today to logo, typefaces, layout, Web site: “We Deserve Better”

Remember this headline? Yeah, that was great. Anyway, USA Today decided that it, too, deserves better, and is planning a major redesign with a new logo and the whole kit-and-kaboodle. The paper is timing the launch of the redesign to coincide with its 30th anniversary September 15.

LJ Digital: Interesting! Can’t wait to see the new design! What do you guys think?

How Will We Read? The Power of an Author

Once upon a time, the power of an author was not solely dependent on the strength of her words to inspire the human spirit. A conflict which made her talent powerless was the likelihood of discoverability. Then along came a knight in shining armor called technology. Technology innovated the way her words were written, produced, marketed and even enjoyed. Perhaps most important of all, technology handed the author the power (should she choose) to control the destiny of her words.

LJ Digital: This is a question that is constantly being asked in the publishing industry. It’s hard to strive to get a book published when everything is going digital. Many authors have played with publishing a digital version of their work along with their hard copy and some don’t bother with the hard copy at all. And with these innovative technological advances, writing has of course had to adjust. Pictures, videos, and hyperlinks are found in many digital works nowadays and many writers have drastically different opinions on whether or not these advances are helping or hurting. What do you think? Submit your opinion and keep this conversation going!

Keep yourself up to date and keep checking this blog for more print-to-digital news! 

(photo courtesy of uniteduc.org)

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How Can Gaming Platforms Be Used For Participatory News? Conference Will Explore Possibilities - 10,000 Words

We’re very excited to be partnering with the Center for Investigative Reporting on TechRaking II, which will be in San Francisco, September 19. We’ll spend the morning exploring best practices in gaming the news and build together in a design sprint throughout the afternoon. For more information, check out CIR.org. For registration information, please contact Kristin Crawford at kcrawford@cironline.org.

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TUMBLING THE CONVENTIONS

Next week, activists, celebrities, candidates, journalists, and other interested citizens will descend on Tampa, FL for the Republican National Convention; a few days later, Charlotte, NC will welcome the Democratic Convention’s counterparts. Tumblr will be on the ground with them. With 77 days to go until election day here in the US, today we’re kicking off a host of opportunities for you to follow the developments and get behind the scenes of the political process.

Six Tumblr bloggers will have the chance to experience the conventions first-hand. Follow election.tumblr.com for their exclusive coverage of the sights, sounds, personalities, protests, politics, and parties in Tampa and Charlotte.

If you’re local, we’d love to see you at one of our official meetups when we’re in town. We’re hosting a DJ block party in Tampa and a convention-watch party in Charlotte.

For broader election coverage from the Tumblrverse between now and November 6, track the Election 2012 tag.

If there’s something you’d like to see our bloggers cover from the conventions, please send tips to election.tumblr.com via Fan Mail. And, in case you haven’t yet registered to vote, you’ll find a link for that on the convention/election blog too!

Oh yes in addition to all my important dogshaming work I’ve been prepping for a trip to Tampa for the Republican convention. SUGGESTIONS WELCOME.

This is fantastic.

LJ Digital: Oh, yes please. 

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Myanmar Announces End to Press Censorship

It’s been a long time coming for the Southeast Asian country, but today the nation’s government stated that it will no longer censor private publications.

Journalists say they will remain cautious, however, despite the good news. The Irrawaddy, a longtime independent follower of Burmese struggle, explains the possible complications:

Under new rules released on the Information Ministry’s website on Monday, journalists will no longer have to submit their work to state censors before publication as they have for close to half-a-century.

However, reporters will still have to send their stories to the PSRD after publication so government monitors can determine whether their work violated any publishing laws, journalists said. It was not immediately clear to what degree that might result in self-censorship.

The country’s move toward a more democratic society has been underway for more than a year now, and several good things have come of it — political prisoners have been released, US sanctions have been lifted, democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi has reentered politics.

But some positive changes, like the sudden access to YouTube and FaceBook, have surprised onlookers. Racist comments posted against the country’s Rohingyas minority, coupled with the state-led “ethnic cleansing” of the fringe population, suddenly make some very large problems public.

FJP: Despite the complications, it’s a wonderful thing.

LJ Digital: Check out the ten most censored countries in world. 

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Obama Outpaces Romney in Direct Voter Communications on Web, Social Media

At the time of analysis (June 4-17, 2012), the Obama campaign had public accounts on nine separate platforms: Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, Spotify and two accounts on Twitter (@BarackObama and @Obama2012).

That is twice that of the Romney campaign, which had public accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Google+. Romney has since expanded his presence, adding accounts on Tumblr and Spotify.

 The Obama campaign is also substantially more active in these domains. Across all the platforms studied, the Obama campaign posted nearly four times as much content as the Romney campaign-614 Obama posts compared with 168 posts for Romney.

The gap in activity was greatest on Twitter. Romney averaged one tweet a day. Obama averaged 29 tweets a day, (17 per day on @BarackObama, the Twitter Account associated with his presidency, and 12 on @Obama2012).

New analysis from the Project for Excellence in Journalism: Read more

Just give me a minute while I try to imagine what a George H.W. Bush Instagram account would look like. Or a Grover Cleveland Tumblr (the Interstate Commerce Commission and gold standard jokes would be HILARIOUS). Presidential elections for the past two centuries have been really missing out.

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While interning at the American Library in Paris a few summers ago, I came across this issue of Library Journal from 1950. This is sweet, beautiful proof that we’ve been worried about new media making reading obsolete for oh … ever.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

There’s room for everything today - we’re raising a generation that will never know information to be a trickle or a trip to the library. Everything has its place. It just needs to be good enough to merit that spot.