Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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I've been trolling around the Web looking for a definition of social media. It's become a quest, although I hope it doesn't end with me latching on to a big white whale.
The listserv has given me great insight into the thinking of others, but I'm still uncomfortable.
Then I ...
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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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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The fine folks at Ball State University, who frankly do some of the best research in new media (I did a fellowship there last year), came out with a study that found newspaper blogs are -- by and large -- a waste. The reason: inconsistent posts and a lack ...
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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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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
In 2006, newspapers were patting themselves on the back for partnering with Google and Yahoo (I believe) to help sell advertising in both print and online.
At the time, I was winding up my time at Technology Review; however, I was adamant that we not look into similar deals for magazines. ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
My buddy Dan, who wrote a great book called We the Media, posted a blog about sustainability in citizen journalism.
His point is this: sustainability doesn't mean that one project goes on forever; instead, it's a series of ad-hoc projects continually spring up depending on the issues of the day. He ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
One of the big drivers of traffic to news websites is traffic and weather (along with breaking news), but that may soon go the way of the classified ads thanks to Global Positioning System devices that can transmit data (uh oh, there's that word again. The bane of all newspaper ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
This via Dave Thomas, my good friend and long-time game journalist who is also on The Modern Journalist mailing list.
Seems a SXSW attendee had his Xbox 360 stolen while he was attending the big Austin confab. The police weren't helping out, so our intrepid investigator turned to Digg and Twitter ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's a lot of talk these days about community building, platforms for social networks and business/customer relationships.
These three seem to be the Holy Grail for newspapers. Tap into communities, give them tools to talk with each other and monetize the outcome. It's great in theory. It's absolutely wrong in practice.
You ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's been much chatter on Twitter recently about the nature of the mobile Tweet platform.
If that sentence just confused you, be thankful I haven't brought up the Great Color War of 2008. But I digress.
The point is this: Twitter, the mobile social network, is largely made up of the digerati, ...
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