Archive for the ‘Newspaper 2.0’ Category
Monday, May 19th, 2008
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I've helped a few students set up RSS Readers recently, which has forced me to look more closely at my own RSS consumption habits.
For me, there are elements of less is not enough with some forms of media (RSS for one) and less is way to much in ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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It's a lovely Saturday afternoon, the perfect type of day for browsing my RSS feeds.
That joy was short-lived, though, as I started reading Who Will Tell Us, an op-ed piece in the Columbia Journalism Review decrying the state of traditional journalism. Ironically, the very editorial itself is the ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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I've been discussing high school sports coverage with various reporter friends, which is one areas that local papers should really knock it out of the park.
The simplest solution is to set up a fantasy-type system -- and a predictive market system -- for local teams, then make sure ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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Jeff Jarvis has written a post about news organizations moving away from thinking of themselves as destinations (or I might say the gatekeepers of information) and towards a more "distributed strategy for news," which he lays out as this:
Widgets that enable people to embed your news (and links ...
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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
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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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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I was speaking with Joe, a former Cincinnati Post writer working to launch a local news organization called CinDaily, about what a modern newspaper should look like.
Our discussions are good for him, I think, but I know they are good for me. They help me start to outline ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
After much debate and discussion, I've decided that the end of the book needs to be an outline for what a modern newspaper should look like. I've been kludging through these ideas with industry folks and tech mavens so I don't expect this will be my final draft on the ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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I've been trolling around the Web looking for a definition of social media. It's become a quest, although I hope it doesn't end with me latching on to a big white whale.
The listserv has given me great insight into the thinking of others, but I'm still uncomfortable.
Then I ...
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