Archive for the ‘Scribefire’ Category
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Last week was the most self-reflective I've seen the Web in some time. Apparently, the Web 2.0/social media phenomenon started to get to people.
The growth of mobile messaging groups, lifestreaming applications, Air desktop applications, audio and video services, aggregators, readers -- you get the idea -- has started to overwhelm ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I've paid scant attention to the Newseum, a $450 million monstrosity that chronicles the history of journalism in the country -- at least so far as we're told.Newsweek has an insightful piece about the decision to build this during a time when 15,000 jobs have been eliminated in the past ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm reading this recap of the Michael Tunison tale with a head shake.
The news aide was fired from the Washington Post after his editors found out -- and by found out, I mean they read his blog where the writer disclosed who he was -- that Tunison was blogging about ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
A friend of mine read this story in CNN and sent it to me."You have to write about this," she said, when she heard about my book idea. So, I'm writing about it. It's maybe the best use of a blog by the mainstream press that I've seen in some ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I drove to Pittsburgh this weekend to meet with a friend, Cynthia, who is working out a business plan for a new type of media organization, who that isn't quite a local news organization, isn't quite a portal, isn't quite a social network and isn't quite an aggregator.
It's somewhere in-between ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
There's a wonderful piece at Poynter today about the work required to build a community-driven, online news operation within the confines of a newspaper.Once you start building an online community, it's difficult to wrangle them in the same direction -- and keep everyone updated as to what citizens are covering. ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I'll be honest, I nearly had a heart attack when I first opened up this article; however, I continually tell people to RTFA before commenting, so I thought I'd read the article before commenting.
The piece is about a journalist discovered that by aggregating links together with a narrative around it, ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
That's the quote that jumped out at me while I was reading (the first page) of The New Yorker article by Eric Alteramn.
It's a scathing review of the industry, which is exactly the kind of review the industry needs. This week alone I've had a half-dozen new media types instant ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I'm working on a story about Dash -- which I wrote about last week on the blog -- for TechNewsWorld. Along the way, I came across a company called Where, which makes software widgets for you mobile phone that enables people to locate a variety of businesses thanks to GPS.
I've ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I read this memo, sent by the San Jose Mercury News Executive Editor Dave Butler, and for about 10 grafs, I was stoked.
The essence: modern journalist dictates that we embrace technologies, but that doesn't mean we abandon journalism.
It's a wonderful screed about changes that will be happen in the ...
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