More thoughts, tips, resources

Thanks to Tyler Chance for this package of digital journalism tips.

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    Tools for gathering information
• Audio
• Voice recorder HD
• External microphones?
• iPhone earbuds mic can be useful on voiceovers (DP)
• Photo
• A Nashville filter can’t save bad photography. Find some external lenses for an iPhone. They aren’t all expensive. You’ll thank yourself later.
• Social
• SocialMention
• Kurrently
• Topsy
• Visual approach to posts
• Tools for disseminating/editing information
• Audio
• TwistedWave
• Dragon Dictation (may be a help, but still kind of funky and can’t be used as a crutch. But still, it keeps getting more accurate)
• Video
• Splice
• iMovie app
• ProCamera
• Photo
• Instagram
• Instagram as a tool, not a savior.
• Text
• Tabula (gathers data from PDF tables)
• PlainText (links with DropBox accounts)
• OpenRefine (clean up messy data)
• Tools for presentation
• Infographics/DataViz
• infogr.am
• visual.ly
• Google Fusion Tables
• Circos
• Quartz’s newly open-sourced Chartbuilder
• Tableau Free Edition
• Social
• RebelMouse
• Storify
• Audio
• SoundCloud (can embed a player for your files, or play straight from the site)
• Text
• ScrollKit (can help you make animated long form pages. They were able to recreate ‘Snow Fall’ in an hour.)

• Eye to the future: what’s ahead for individual publishing/branding
• Newspad : Community blogging/reporting.
• IFUSSSS (If you see something, share something) : Community video newsgathering platform that acts as a middleman between the users and the broadcast companies. Narrowing down a model that actually PAYS royalties for videos used from the site.
• Kindle Singles : A platform for people to download single stories. There have been success stories already.
• A necessary kick in the pants about knowing the pros/cons of each tool (don’t use it just because you can, know WHY you should use it.)