Various Flash, news and journalism links that I liked

Local stuff

Welcome to Theartbay Gallery in Fenton - http://www.theartbay.co.uk/
Cycling City how £4.8million has been spent - http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ Ian Norris has used the popular FOI site to ask how Stoke-on-Trent City Council managed to spend £4.8 million on promoting the city as a centre of excellence for cycling.

Geeky stuff

Total Eclipse of the Heart - the flowchart - http://visualjournalism.com/ I always feel somewhat useless in my job when I see how people take information (e.g. a song) and then use their creative skill to display it in an absorbing, funny and innovative way.
Teaching Online Journalism: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency - http://mindymcadams.com What it says on the tin.
American visitors to UK news websites - http://weblogs.hitwise.com/ - An interesting post showing how the influence of news sites such as Digg and the Drudge Report are generating traffic for UK news sites.
The Journalism Job Market: Part I, Looking Back - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/ - As a business reporter, I'd always had a feeling that the newspaper industry was going through the revolution which faced manufacturing companies such as the local pottery firms. This post backs that up with some good statistics.
Nieman Reports | An Antidote for Web Overload - http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports One of the criticisms of web journalism is the difficulty in understanding the importance of a story amid the rush to keep up with the endless rush of news. This post looks at an example of how newspapers might tackle this by focusing on context rather than the latest, breaking news.
The 5 Big Myths Of Social Media - http://www.socialmediatoday.com/ - Simple, but worth reading.
Local government knowledge hub - much more interesting than it sounds - http://socialreporter.com/

Flash

Where to find the best in Flash journalism http://www.10000words.net/ - A good collection of places to find the best in Flash journalism.
How did they do that? How to deconstruct websites and Flash files http://www.10000words.net/ Want to work out how that website did that whizz-bang infographic? This post shows you the best way of getting to the nitty-gritty.
Three reasons journalists shouldn't use Flash - and 3 why they should - http://www.10000words.net/ I wish I had read this post before launching myself into Flash to create journalistic packages.
Free Tutorials to Create Your Own Flash Game - http://www.dezinerfolio.com/
Vox Populi Vox Dei - this reminds me of old style c64 gaming at its best - http://www.fhm.com/

Google

Google News Blog: Google starts to name sources as 'blogs' in Google News - http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/
Google - Internet Stats - UK - http://www.google.co.uk/

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