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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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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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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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Pulitzer Prize winning business writer Steve Pearlstein gave a talk at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference this week. Unbeknownst to me, the solution to the news industry's failings have already been figured out.
You can read the full story here, but check out this excerpt:
“And ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
I'm completely baffled whenever I read stories about the changing media landscape and layoffs. The world has very clearly changed dramatically in terms of media, consumption, creation and audience. We know this. We know that it's left the realm of the technophiles and moved into a more mainstream ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I asked my Tweet-followers to send me the coolest news applications that they found. The reason: I do a piss poor job of keeping up with everything so I let those smarter than me do the heavy lifting. Cynthia, who is one of the few people who return ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm about to commit heresy. I'm going to be accused of breaking down the Church-State wall that has "existed" in journalism since the dawn of time. I'm going to anger old-school journalists (which is funny, since most people think I'm old school in terms of my reporting -- and attitude).
The ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I worked on a story yesterday for Ecommerce Times about Gawker Media selling off three of its properties. In the course of reporting the story, I talked to an author who researched trends in media. His take: people are moving from a personality-centric news source to an aggregation service that ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Web 2.0 (I hate that name) is all the rage these days. Everyone is rushing out to build their blogs, their vlogs, the Tweetlogs, lifestreams and Tumblogs, but there's been on very important component that's missing: organization. Parsing information from the never-ending fire hit-and-miss at best. I have RSS ...
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