Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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I've been asked to speak at several events in the last year, discussing how technology is reshaping the media landscape.
One recurring meme in my talks is this: social media has changed the expectations of many people in terms of media, and if news organizations don't adopt ...
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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 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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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As I work on the book, I'll be interviewing loads of people -- if all goes well. Along the way, there is absolutely no chance that I am going to get every fact correct. I know it. It's impossible no matter how hard I try.
So I'm launching experiment number three ...
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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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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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The Zogby International polling group surveyed newspaper editors and found that most editors believe the newspaper of the future will have three features:
they will be free
they will have more opinion
they will include more comments
The report goes on to say that 30 percent of those editors survey wanted to ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Rick Edmonds has a post at Poynter discussing the decline of print readers and the slow adoption of online readers at newspapers.
The contention is that online will not grow enough for some time -- maybe ten years -- to replace the readership that has left. There are some ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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All the blog research says that you're headlines should be of a positive nature to attract readers. I don't always do that. I'm doing it right now.
::Props::
I've been scanning The Wired Journalist site, a place where journalists can congregate to discuss what's going on at the papers -- ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet ...
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