Archive for the ‘Live Writer’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I've spent the past few days offline, more or less, and I can say that I've enjoyed my time away from the constant stream of emails, Tweets, text messages and comments.
There were moments I felt disconnected, but I never really felt like I was missing out on anything because I ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Here is a really insightful piece about how newspapers should handle reader comments and discussion boards -- particularly for sensitive stories.
It's not a piece that comes with any answers, but it certainly brings up mainly salient points: how do you deal with comments when a child has been killed, how ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 93 percent of teenagers write for their own pleasure, but fail to connect the relationship between communication writing (anything done electronically) with the more formal structure of writing.
The 83-page report is filled with startling insights:
teenagers ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
For the last year, I've been working with a computer science student at Northern Kentucky University to create a content management system that would enable users (not site owners, but the people who get online) to create buddy lists that would:
allow for internal bookmarking
allow for dynamic generation of site content ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I'm not going to tackle the entire arts and entertainment section at once because I'm less familiar with this section than I am with the others.
That realization has been a strange for me since John and I wrote a book about video games, have a quarter-finished book about anime and ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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I've been threatening to review Joe Trippi's book about his role with the Howard Dean campaign in 2004, the campaign that tapped into the social media networks emerging online to not only raise more money than a candidate had ever done before but also to galvanize voters by ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Since games are on my mind these days, I've been keeping my eyes out for innovative ways that people are using Alternate Reality Game-like structures to solve problems.
The more I read about them, the more excited I am about the possibility of news organizations incorporating this community-styled project to engage ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the most interesting propositions for newspapers is the overhaul of the business section.
There are more opportunities for important -- and audience-capturing -- features in this section than any other simply because, other than sports, the section relies more on raw data and numbers.
Traditional business papers should, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the rather disturbing trends I have experienced in my talks with newspaper folks is there insistence on latching on to the latest trend.
It's easy to get caught up in the mix. After all, new technologies roll out every day and if you're not careful, you can ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Normally, I try to add something to the conversation whenever I read articles and speeches, but there are times when I think it's best left to the words of those delivering the message.
This is one of those cases.
John S. Carroll is the former editor of several papers and he delivered ...
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