Ezra's Notes

Rawporter Wants To Make Us All (Paid) Broadcast Journalists

A startup is hoping to combine two hot web trends - crowd sourcing and microearning - into a single savior for cash-strapped, broadcast newsrooms.

Rawporter, an iPhone app that will soon be rolled out for Android, turns almost anyone into a local news cameraman or camerawoman. Instead of dispatching a camera crew to a fire during rush hour and risk they won’t get there until after the flame is out, a television news reporter can create an assignment from Rawporter’s Web interface and sned it to anyone with the app who may be in the area of the fire.

readwriteweb.com

(via Tumblita - Tumblr for iOS and Mac) Well, this is a video showing the Mac interface for Tumblita, a Tumblr posting tool. There is no video available for their iPad version, which I believe is where it all started. At the moment, I’m not as excited as I am by Blogsy, but I’ll have to use Tumblita and see how it works.

tumblita.com

(via Blogsy How-To) Blogsy is a drag-and-drop editor on the iPad for many major blogging platforms: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.

blogsyapp.com

iBooks Author: You Work For Apple Now

When you use iBooks Author, you are obligated to give Apple a hefty cut and near exclusivity. Are you sure this is a good thing?

News360.com

Personal curation site, lets you set up a customized feed.

tools

Magplus | Digital Magazine Publishing from InDesign to iPad & Android

Plug-in for InDesign. Not inexpensive, with recurring fees, but an interesting way to develop publication apps.

Social Network Wars: How The Five Major Platforms Stack Up [INFOGRAPHIC]

Feature by feature comparison of Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn.

Why CNN Acquired Zite [INTERVIEW]

Zite is an RSS newsreader for iPad that creates magazine-like pages, similar to Flipboard.

tools

Facebook for journalists: recording audio interviews from new video chat feature

Note how this stuff travels. I picked up this story from Twitter, via 10000Words. They had grabbed it from IJNet (here) who had gotten it from journalism.co.uk and they might have actually tapped the orginating Facebook press release. Also note how some of the aggregators along the way have been adding value to the story.