Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Great Debaters

As one significant result of our first course Ahmed Ezz wrote a very good story creating a debate on who deserves to join Egypt's starting 11 players against Zambia in the world cup qualifiers.


The best thing about this debate that it was published in an almost dead time of getting news (just 12 hours before the game) and 9 hours before announcing the final 11.

The story was read more than 27000 times and it generated 354 comments .. more than 95 % of these comments were in point with no offensive content.

this debate was one of the debates we created methodically to attract users when we dont have big news reports.
you can read our debates here :






Thursday, March 5, 2009

Amro Hassan and the conspiracy theory

Amro Hassan believes that the training sessions is a part of big operation by agent Nasry Esmat in Egypt :)

Monday, March 2, 2009

Writing for the web


When we should use subtitles?
and how long a news paragraph should be?
Tips for Writing for the Web by Mindy Macadams .. read it now

mmmmmmmmmmm ok

how to use text and photos and mix them with sound and video .... need some graphics with interactive flavor

Read about the MEDIA TYPES

What is interactivity?


this diagram is taken from Bradshaw's blog post "BASIC priciples for online journalism (I is for interactivity)" ..amazing explanation read it now

A list of what http://www.filgoal.com/ writers suggested for their concept of interactivity :

News comments
Users articles
(polls)
User generated content (their space)
Debates
Photo Albums
Slideshows
Related items
Links to external websites
Blogging (contact the writer)
Favourite topics
Videos

Simply .. Every visit to FilGoal.com should be rewarding to the user