Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I spend much of my time beating my head against the wall, reading and listening to journalists who tell me that the our industry is the only one that can inform the public. Citizens, the logic goes, don't really understand everything that we do. They need us.
So it's refreshing to ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I love the Web. I just found out about bitchmeme, a great term to describe what happens on the weekends when there isn't much news happening. Bloggers (or as we called them at Technology Review, the nutters) come out in force to discuss issues that bother them.
Or in this case, ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
A Berkeley J-School student ended up in an Egyptian jail while working on his thesis project, a fact that the faculty found out thanks to Twitter.
Coincidentally, I was at Berkeley while this was happening -- and my mentor, Paul Grabowicz, gave me the skinny on the project. What he didn't ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I worked on a story yesterday for Ecommerce Times about Gawker Media selling off three of its properties. In the course of reporting the story, I talked to an author who researched trends in media. His take: people are moving from a personality-centric news source to an aggregation service that ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
comScore released its month advertising numbers, ranking the top ad networks online.
While AOL may be struggling mightily with its traditional media parent company, its online advertising network continues to dominate the landscape, reaching more than 90 percent of all US Internet users. Yahoo and Google followed, reaching 85 and 80 ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
A couple things have happened since last week which got me thinking about modern journalism from a public relations perspective. The first was a conversation I had with one of the PR teachers at Northern Kentucky University about Google Earth. The second was a Twitter contest my old boss Jason ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I've been off for a few days, traveling to San Francisco for the book. While I was there, I had the opportunity to meet with Howard Rheingold, who is currently lecturing on technology and journalism at both Stanford and Berkeley. We had a rather illuminating talk.
He's working on a project ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
My friend Jason emailed this story to me with this introduction: No Kidding. The piece examined how editors and reporters viewed their online communities, and as you might expect, the readers didn't exactly agree with the crafty journalists. There are two basic findings: editors don't want anonymous message ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Web 2.0 (I hate that name) is all the rage these days. Everyone is rushing out to build their blogs, their vlogs, the Tweetlogs, lifestreams and Tumblogs, but there's been on very important component that's missing: organization. Parsing information from the never-ending fire hit-and-miss at best. I have RSS ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The relationship between the Web and print staffs (and yes, it's still plural) is always going to be contentious, at least until the print folks realize that the king is dead. Long live the king.
I'm reminded of this while perusing American Journalism Review, reading this article, Enough is Enough, a ...
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