Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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I'm a novice when it comes to video.
Everything I've learned, I've learned from either watching videos online -- Rocketboom, for instance -- and reading research reports done by smart folks. It's the kind of knowledge that normally drives me crazy because I really need to get my hands ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I blogged a few days ago about an article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
In my haste (and possibly my annoyance), the post wasn't as clear as I'd hoped, which Derek Willis pointed out to me in no uncertain terms in the comment section.
With the exception of having my wiki set ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The Society of Professional Journalists honored the top college journalists with its Mark of Excellence Awards on May 19.
“I encourage media executives who are looking for the next wave of high-quality journalists to pay attention to the winners of SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards.” said Neil Ralston, SPJ’s Vice President ...
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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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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
We've been having a little discussion at The Modern Journalist NING social network pitting the database reporting I've proposed in Newspaper 2.0 versus traditional, beat-the-bushes reporting done by the Ameican media.
Of course, I am a part of the American media -- or I was -- for 14 years before I ...
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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
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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
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Everything I've ever learned about technology started with reading Steven Levy.
Sometimes, though, I wish I hadn't learned so much because now I expect everyone to get technology the way he did -- and does.
I'm oftentimes energized by reading smart people discussing the future of media even when I'm ...
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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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