44 tools for online journalists

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I have just spent a week with the AlJazeera.net news team in the Qatari capital Doha talking about a variety of online tools, how they work and why they might be useful for online journalists. We looked at a number of examples of some of them being used in the wild by journalists around the world. Below is a list of tools I either taught, demonstrated or just mentioned in passing during this week in Doha,

Blogs

• blogger
• wordpress
• typepad
• tumblr

Blog search

• technorati
• google blogsearch
• icerocket
• twingly
• blogpulse

Bookmarks

• delicious
• publish2

Twitter

• tweetdeck
• seesmic desktop
• thwirl
• tweetgrid
• twellow
• wefollow
  
• twitterfall
• bit.ly
• mobile twitter applications
• twitpic
• watwet
  
• artwitter
• splitweet
  
• twitterfeed
• twitter translate

RSS

• google reader
• yahoo pipes
• mloovi
  

Photographs

• flickr

Video

• google video
• blinkx
• qik
• bambuser
• flixwagon
• kyte.tv
• ustream

Audio

• audioboo
• phoneboo
• utterli

Social networks

• facebook
• ning

Organising the digital desktop

• netvibes
• igoogle

It's not that different a list to Alfred Hermida's from 2008, but no Mac only stuff in here - as I had no Mac users to train - and I've thrown a few Arabic tools into the mix. If you can think of any tools I'm missing do please make suggestions in the comments. For me, the key tools are Twitter, Publish2, del.icio.us and advanced use of RSS.

Comments

[Peter Moore]

A really useful list that I've been using quite a bit in the last few weeks.

Could I add: http://newsmap.jp/ - another very useful visual news aggregator.

[Graham]

Thanks Pete. While I like news visualisers like newsmap, I just don't find them very practical to use. How do you use it?