Hi everybody – the portfolio websites are now open again and your original passwords have been reinstated.

Our sincerest apologies for the delay – the marking was done months ago, but the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly.

Stay tuned for migration instructions!

Marcus, Chris and Gary

Hi Everyone,

We can’t wait to see what you’ve done because everything we’ve seen so far has really looked great.

We know you’ve been wondering about how you hand these in, so thanks for being patient.

To hand in your portfolio, click this magic link, and fill out the form you see (please fill out the form only once).

And presto! you can do it from anywhere in the world and whenever you like, provided it’s before the deadline.

The deadline is 5pm on Tuesday May 4th.

Marcus

Most of you should have had instruction on using Flip cameras and editing your films in Windows Movie Maker. The full instructions are after the jump » Read the rest of the entry..

The concept of ‘content management’, at least in one respect, is easily unraveled:No prizes for guessing it must be the process or activity by which you ‘manage’ your ‘content’.

Tongue in cheek as that may seem, as somebody who works with a content management system or CMS almost every day, I have sincerely come to think of it this way. This article will help you to understand what it means journalistically as well as semantically, whilst explaining why the simple, and playfully tautological definition of it above is the most useful one.

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Since we’ll be unable to offer any further domain setup sessions, I thought I’d put up this brief guide for students who have bought domain names via Gandi.net and would like to use them.

Other domain registrars will vary, but carefully following these steps will ensure that your domain is properly set up. » Read the rest of the entry..

The handout for lab 2 on HTML and CSS can be downloaded from here.

Many of you have expressed a desire to use your own domain name with your online portfolios. This is not problem, though if you haven’t already done so, you’ll need to purchase a domain first. Please refer to my earlier post (from last year) about this.

However, due to the popularity of this option we’ve had a lot of individual e-mail requests for the set up at our server. To effectively manage this and be sure that everybody who wants to use their own domain is accomodated, we are going to hold a domain special day.

This will be held on Monday October 26th, 2009 from 12:45pm-1:30pm. The location and any changes or other information will be announced via our Twitter, @cutlines.

If you’re on the Writing and Editing for Electronic Media module that we run for the MA in Electronic Publishing, then please note that we’ve put up a new page dedicated to this module, as it’s not the same as the Online Journalism module.

On that page is a brief course outline and a link to a full, three-page downloadable outline.

Broadcast and print students from the MA in International Journalism at City University, London are today putting their online journalism skills to work as protests and other events related to the G20 Summit get underway around the capital.

The students, led by broadcast student Alex Wood, will be using Qik, Twitpic, blogging, as well as of course Twitter to cover events as they actually happen. They have selected a special Twitter hashtag, #g20ct, to link their ‘tweets’ together.

These various media are being aggregated on a web page also entirely put together by these students: http://tinyurl.com/g20live.

Extended video footage and photography from the day is also being collected and could be available as early as tomorrow.

When you take something online, you rely on technology, but the point should never be the technology itself. In other words, although online journalism relies on technology, it is not ABOUT technology. Technology is never more than a means to an end. » Read the rest of the entry..