Author Topic: Looking for Acidmods News Page Journalist - Apply here!! (Read 12581 times)

edhel · « **on:** January 07, 2008, 11:17:41 AM »

We are looking for an addition to the Newspage jorunalism team, a new article of news has to be posted every 2 hours and we would like you to help with that. Please apply for a position here: If you are interested please post an article you have written and we will review it for quality and accuracy, the candidate will be chosen when we see someone fit for the positon. YOu must be on acidmods at least once a day, so that we can share the workload between the different news team members.

Thank you and have fun, entries will be judged by IndyChav

BTW: if you havent noticed the new news page its here www.acidmods.com

Quote from: robin1989 on January 07, 2008, 02:29:10 PM

The Schedule

think of it like this if there are 12 team members then that is 1 story each every day so each person would have say a 2 hour slot every day to post say 1 article, you could however write 2 articles on one day and post one on one day then the other on the next.

What Is Classed As News

basically anything.
but to scale it down here is a list of possible news.
new games, new consoles, new software, new hombrew, new hacks, new demos, news about the companies involved in tech, news about new discoverys, news about tech shows like CES or E3 or MWSF, new IC or component releases or even new tech releases.
as i said almost anything is news as long as its interesting to someone and they dont already know it.

Where To Get The News

blogs, news sites, company sites, digg.com, newspapers, magazines, TV

the world is your oyster

Tec_ · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2008, 11:30:16 AM »

every 2 hours? did i read that right?

psp_nl · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2008, 11:37:22 AM »

I'm interested, but i don't think i can post every 2 hours (school...)

IndyChav · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2008, 11:41:36 AM »

Quote from: tec_in_the_making on January 07, 2008, 11:30:16 AM

every 2 hours? did i read that right?

Did u read it? The individual wont have to post every 2hours ... The team will like edhel said sharing the work load

Post your name,
your timezone + your article

u will be notified when i make any choices

dedafmonteur · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2008, 11:55:43 AM »

That is still A LOT indy.

cant you just let them write when they have time?
otherwise you'll get a lot of BS cause they need something each 2 hours

Tec_ · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2008, 12:02:24 PM »

im not interested in this post, but let me ask this question to try and help out.

how many articles would one be expected to write in one day?

IndyChav · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2008, 12:19:46 PM »

Quote from: dedafmonteur on January 07, 2008, 11:55:43 AM

That is still A LOT indy.

cant you just let them write when they have time?
otherwise you'll get a lot of BS cause they need something each 2 hours

No we have an order to fill .... Its not hard to find news you just need to look.

Also u will be delegated what time you have to post, so we done have a clash of posts and because on the most part we all go to school we need posts from different timezones.

If we have six members then we only need each person to post twice a day, the news is out there you just need to find it.

seikene · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2008, 12:22:14 PM »

Not interested too much either, but wondering what if 2 people accidentally stick to the same article? I might take an interest depending on what you call "news".

psp_nl · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2008, 12:25:55 PM »

New MS Duo for the PSP

Like we all know, the PSP has standard a Memory Stick card reader where we can put our little sticks in for
savegames, pictures, music and movies. Most of the users can get by with a 1GB card.
But for the users who can't get enough of space, they can finally rejoice, as Sony is releasing
a 16GB version of the Pro Duo. But before you can celebrate, there is a hefty price for the hefty size;
the stick cost $300 and will available at the stores in March.

Article by psp_nl, timezone: GMT + 01:00
Just trying

IndyChav · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2008, 12:52:37 PM »

News is anything relevant to acidmods

Software or hardware mods
new rekeases such as consoles or accessories
new sponsor offers anything that has something to do with us

phenomenal · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2008, 01:02:09 PM »

Why didnt anybody inform to me all this is happening?

ProperBritish · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2008, 01:07:27 PM »

What would be an idea would be to have console based news squads. For PSP there may be 5 ppl. Best stories get in the news. For less intense modding news, say PS3, there would only be 1 person.

That 16GB looks slammin'

IndyChav · « **Reply #12 on:** January 07, 2008, 01:24:02 PM »

As chief editor and scourer of online news ...... \i can safely say we dont need differnet news teams .... what we need is enough peopel on the team sothat we have an article every 2 hours, it not hard to find news and thats all we need, obviously one or 2 people cant do it themselves due to the fact they may have personal commitments such as school etc, and of course they have to sleep -_-

Hence the need for members with different timezones,

ProperBritish · « **Reply #13 on:** January 07, 2008, 01:35:55 PM »

Hm... I might get in on the action... gimme some time...

robin1989 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 07, 2008, 02:29:10 PM »

well i may be able to contribute every now and again but not on a daily basis so i could be a part time team member.

The Schedule

think of it like this if there are 12 team members then that is 1 story each every day so each person would have say a 2 hour slot every day to post say 1 article, you could however write 2 articles on one day and post one on one day then the other on the next.

What Is Classed As News

basically anything.
but to scale it down here is a list of possible news.
new games, new consoles, new software, new hombrew, new hacks, new demos, news about the companies involved in tech, news about new discoverys, news about tech shows like CES or E3 or MWSF, new IC or component releases or even new tech releases.
as i said almost anything is news as long as its interesting to someone and they dont already know it.

Where To Get The News

blogs, news sites, company sites, digg.com, newspapers, magazines, TV

the world is your oyster

phenomenal · « **Reply #15 on:** January 07, 2008, 02:34:19 PM »

just copy qj and maxconsole lol

and why didnt anyone answer my dam question???

bormann · « **Reply #16 on:** January 07, 2008, 02:37:33 PM »

u spelled dam wrong, its damn lol
but i think im interested, i should have a article done by tonight

ra1n · « **Reply #17 on:** January 07, 2008, 02:40:36 PM »

didn't indy already asked me to join?

IndyChav · « **Reply #18 on:** January 07, 2008, 02:49:02 PM »

Quote from: Phenomenal on January 07, 2008, 02:34:19 PM

just copy qj and maxconsole lol

and why didnt anyone answer my dam question???

You can take the news from wherever you find it, but dont copy and paste the article, write your own one.

Quote from: RA1N on January 07, 2008, 02:40:36 PM

didn't indy already asked me to join?

Some people including yourself were asked personally, this was how i was going to decide who would be part of the team. But due to my recent loss of net *F***ing BT Home hub, stop working but looks as if its perfect... piece of

*
I had to call up edhel and get him to psot this, i cant hand pick if i cant get on but when i am on i will judge you...

Indy's watchign you...

ProperBritish · « **Reply #19 on:** January 07, 2008, 03:31:38 PM »

It has been announced that Japanese electronics company Matsush¡ta Electronics Corp. are going to manufacture the world's largest TV built for the public.
The TV measures in at a whopping 150" corner to corner, or to put that in reference to how tall you are, 12.5 feet. This plasma screen is HD, and has a maximum resolution 4 times that of 1080p. Not too shabby for a screen with an area equivalent to 9 50" TVs.
The record of largest TV was broken considerably, beating Panasonic's 103" Plasma by a whole 47".
Set to arrive in 2009, there's a long wait yet, you'd best get saving!

GMT +0:00

psp_nl · « **Reply #20 on:** January 08, 2008, 05:49:26 AM »

Most of the info on the 16GB that i found, were almost the same.
So that's why it looks almost the same with other sites...

psp_nl · « **Reply #21 on:** January 08, 2008, 06:03:00 AM »

I think you have drinked too much Redbulls.

TheG4mer · « **Reply #22 on:** January 08, 2008, 08:44:08 AM »

I never read the news, i haven't even book marked it. My home page is the Forum home (AM).
http://www.afterdawn.com/

Thats's my news site.

Tec_ · « **Reply #23 on:** January 08, 2008, 09:02:27 AM »

its a cool idea, but for AM stuff, i don't think that that much happens to warrant a up date every 2 hours. when im looking for electronics news im looking at engadget or geekologie

so what i don't want to see is a bunch of there stories mirrored over hear. i would love to see things related to AM, but like i said i just don't think that that much gos on, but could be wrong.

robin1989 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 08, 2008, 09:21:15 AM »

we are trying to expand into new areas of tech and modding

ProperBritish · « **Reply #25 on:** January 08, 2008, 10:12:19 AM »

onwards and upwards i say!

IndyChav · « **Reply #26 on:** January 08, 2008, 01:53:48 PM »

If we can expand into the more tech side of news as Robin said, we will better the site, this will be done by the journalists having the news sooner than other sites, i've monitored some of them and they dont post as regularly as we propose to, If we are number one fore news as well as number one for modding, we can effectively take over the console world on the intraweb!!

But thats jsut my 2 cents, .... more to come when I have full access to the internet again =]... *damn BT

*

ProperBritish · « **Reply #27 on:** January 08, 2008, 02:01:39 PM »

IndyChav's World Domination plans

Syko913 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 08, 2008, 02:11:27 PM »

Windows 98 on PSP

This is Syko reporting with groundbreaking news,it seems Xarro - author of PSPWebcam - managed to get Windows 98 running on a PSP Phat using the Bochs x86 emulator. As the author explains, it's the same system used when Windows 95 was made to work on the PSP.

Xarro hopes to be able to release a tutorial, a new video or screenshots soon. The OS on the PSP isn't fast (in fact it's really slow, as Xarro notes) but the point is, the author made it work and that's the first step:

Finally i got running it on the PSP with the bochs x86 emulator! It's the same system of windows 95 but I installed it with PC version of bochs and i spent 6 hours today to install it (very low) and finally it works!

budgray19 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 08, 2008, 02:13:10 PM »

what would we get outa this?

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Author Topic: Looking for Acidmods News Page Journalist - Apply here!! (Read 12581 times)

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