Distributed Conversation

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Image via Wikipedia There's been talk in the blogosphere about the effect of lifestreaming applications on blogs and traditional media companies. Forget the advertising issues that RSS raises, for instance. What's ultimately more important is tracking the conversation that begins in one place across multiple networks, making sure that you are somehow ...

Stop Counting Page Views People

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, ...

Newspapers: We Think Readers Want More of Us

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 ...

Comment!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

When newspapers -- or any media sources -- opens up its comment section, it's good if the people in charge actually pay attention, and engage, with the readers. That's the advice coming from the Online Journalism Review site today. I'm flabbergasted that it's even necessary to bring this ...