The Online Credibility Gap

The Reynolds Journalism Institute and the Associated Press Managing Editors released a report entitled "Local Readers and the Newsroom: The Online Credibility Gap."

The report, which is based on a survey given to editors and readers, makes the following conclusions about public reader opinion:

... 'verifying information,' 'getting the facts right,' 'correcting mistakes,' and both journalists and users 'taking responsibility for accuracy' should be practiced to support good journalism online.

... 'journalists joining the conversation online and giving personal views' would be either somewhat or very beneficial to good journalism online...

... it would be beneficial to good journalism online if journalists (1) 'provide depth by links to content published by other sources,' (2) 'provide depth by providing many layers of content produced by local journalists,' and (3) 'provide depth by providing databases or similar information that users can explore on their own to find answers to their questions' online.

Lukemia Slideshow

http://files.technicianonline.com/Schultz/

On March 12, one of NCSU's most prominent student leaders was diagnosed with lukemia. On April 3, 2008, dozens of Nick Shultz's friends showed their support by gathering at a house near campus, bringing food and donations. Some friends even shaved their heads to show their support.

http://files.technicianonline.com/Schultz/

Photoshop CS4 will be 64-bit on Windows ONLY

John Siracusa writes: "Photoshop CS4 will not be 64-bit on the Mac, but will be 64-bit on Windows."

Apparently Apple decided not to continue development of a 64-bit portion of OS X (called Carbon) that Photoshop uses. So Adobe will have to develop 64-bit version in Cocoa, which is expected to take an extremely long time.

"The speed advantage of 64-bit code on Intel's x86_64 processors makes this wait particularly galling. The lack of a 64-bit Photoshop on the Mac doesn't just affect those who work with huge files. It represents a blanket 8-12% speed hit for Mac users when compared with Windows users running Photoshop on the same hardware."

How would your student media organization handle this? I think it makes a good case for virtualization, but a real-word test would determine if performance in a virtualized Windows is acceptable.