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robcurley.com: How a ‘traditional print journalist’ can become a great new-media journalist and still not know Flash or how to edit video

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:50:24 -0500

When I originally started writing this blog entry, I typed “U2 comes to the desert: Covering a mega-concert via new media” as the headline in the WordPress title box. And that’s what this post was going to be about — how John Katsilometes covered U2’s recent concert in Las [...]

The Praized Blog: Special Deals to Monetize Real-Time World

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:47:34 -0500

Excerpt from the Razorfish FEED study on MediaPost:

Of those who follow a brand on Twitter, for example, 44% said access to exclusive deals is the main reason. And on Facebook and MySpace, 37% cited special deals as the main reason they have “friended” a brand. The report points to [...]

Somewhat Frank: "Face-to-face is still the best way to communicate. Technology is not designed to replace these kinds..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:08:06 -0500

“Face-to-face is still the best way to communicate. Technology is not designed to replace these kinds of interaction. It enhances it.”

- Frank Gruber, a product developer for AOL who attends and speaks at dozens of interactive and technology conferences a year. (via Creativity flows [...]

cybersoc.com: links for 2009-11-09

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:06:13 -0500

Participatory Budgeting - Google Maps "Participatory Budgeting (PB) can be broadly defined as the participation of citizens in the decision-making process of budget allocation and monitoring public spending. Participation may take various forms, from effective decision-making power in the allocation of resources to more modest initiatives that confer" [...]

/Message: links for 2009-11-09

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:00 -0500

BookBlog Blog Archive Are Twitter lists the new blogrolls? - Adina Levin's weblog. For conversation about books I've been reading, social software, and other stuff too. (tags: twitter lists) Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair [...]

Somewhat Frank: "When your life begins to resemble the make-up of a country western song, it might be best to just..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0500

“When your life begins to resemble the make-up of a country western song, it might be best to just sing along.”

- @frankgruber advice on rolling with the waves of life [...]

The Praized Blog: Twitter’s Future Local Filters

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:48:58 -0500

Improvements like geolocation have the potential to make the Internet suddenly relevant to society as it is lived, not just relevant to what happens online. Mr. Sarver imagines features like “local trending topics,” a list of subjects popular in a particular area; or searches for happy hour in a neighborhood [...]

cnewmark: Trusted groups AARP and Consumer Reports fight for health care

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:16:00 -0500

I've already praised Consumer Reports for standing up for Americans, taking on some really powerful and ruthless politicians.

Now, the AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons, has taken up the fight on behalf of us, adding their voice.

Consumer Reports and AARP are two [...]

Innovation in College Media: Coming off the page

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:58:55 -0500

The Journal Times in Racine County, Wisc. reports that financial hardships at one local college newspaper forced its staff to think Web-first in a very big way.

The Ranger News, the weekly student newspaper for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, has folded its print operation and now runs exclusively [...]

Journerdism: Toward a Slow-News Movement

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:48:12 -0500

It comes down to this: The faster the news accelerates, the slower I’m inclined to believe anything I hear — and the harder I look for the coverage that pulls together the most facts with the most clarity about what’s known and what’s speculation. Call it slow news. Call it [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Murdoch vows to remove Newscorp's websites from Google searches

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:31:27 -0500

In his latest move, Murdoch has vowed to remove newspapers in his media empire - including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal - from Google's search index. The mogul sees this as step towards e ncouraging people to pay for online content, [...]

MediaShift Idea Lab: Using Mobile Phones to Map the Slums of Brazil

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:30:01 -0500

In the favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unnamed streets meander through the hillsides. There are hospitals, coffee shops and restaurants, none of which appear on a map. Mail carriers struggle to deliver letters to homes without addresses.

A new project by Rede [...]

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Ugly ethnic profiling tarred Ft. Hood coverage

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0500

Number of comments: 4
The news media succumbed to ugly ethnic and religious profiling in their coverage of the shooting last week at Fort Hood. Shame on them. Media executives ought to closely review their coverage of the Fort Hood massacre to develop sufficient organizational discipline to avoid spreading in the future the sort [...]

BuzzMachine: WWGD? – The videos

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:31:59 -0500

Number of comments: 2

In addition to What Would Google Do? the book, the ebook, the Kindle book, the audio book, the video, and the PowerPoint, we were planning to release a so-called V-book with videos interspersed throughout the digital text. Never happened. So in a bald effort to [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: The Texas Tribune: A case study on non-profit news

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:30:16 -0500

It has been a rough couple of years for the newspaper industry with the recession taking its toll on the financial stability of many organisations. In the past year alone at least ten publications have filed for bankruptcy and many have been forced to close their [...]

/Message: Twitter's New Retweet

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:12:00 -0500

My initial reaction to the announcement that Twitter was going to implement the retweet (RT) microsyntax as a basic function of the platform was shock (see Project Retweet: When Ultrastructure Becomes Infrastructure). Retweets are created in a variety of ways -- most importantly in a vague and imprecise way, [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Philippine newpapers holding up in the switch to online

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:53:37 -0500

Jose Galang has reported on the current state of Philippine media entities for the Asia Media Forum, which he has described as being "in a state of flux". According to Galang, in light of rising production costs no longer covered by the now declining readership, [...]

Smart Mobs: Howard Rheingold in New York City this week

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:50:29 -0500

Conference convener and New School faculty Trebor Scholz wrote me today saying that “One of the highlights of this conference will definitely be Howard Rheingold’s session.” That session will be on Saturday morning. Howard will also be one of the panelists in the Closing Plenary Discussion [...]

cybersoc.com: curating, not moderating, the flow of content and participation

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:37:48 -0500

[I originally posted this on the Headshift Blog last week where it got a lot of attention and some useful comments. It was also re-blogged on Social Media Today where it has now been read nearly 2500 times.] User generated content is, for many media companies and other organisations, [...]

cybersoc.com: user centred news

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:33:27 -0500

[I originally posted this on the Headshift blog last Thursday] Hot on the heels of my post yesterday about finding, aggregating and curating content from third party sources, including blogs and social media services, comes word of the Twitter Times which finds and delivers news that's highly [...]

cybersoc.com: using behavioural data to create compelling content

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:30:06 -0500

[Originally posted to the Headshift blog last Friday]

Most owners of social software systems use the data generated through usage in their reporting of metrics. So, alongside the standard metrics such as unique users, page impressions, time spent, etc, social tools often enable actions which can also be counted and [...]

Martin Stabe: Guardian: Telephone hacking: Cursory and complacent

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:51:34 -0500

Guardian leader: "Since the information commissioner first reported on the widespread use of private investigators by journalists in 2006, the only bodies to have made a determined effort to find out what was going on have been the information commissioner, the police and parliament. The PCC has repeatedly declined to [...]

Martin Stabe: paidContent: Video: Murdoch Making News Invisible To Search Engines? Not So Fast

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:55:33 -0500

"Here’s how Murdoch replied when [Sky News political editor David Speers] asked why he hasn’t blocked sites from being seen by search engines: 'I think we will. But that’s when we start charging. We do it already with the Wall Street Journal. We have a wall, but it’s not right [...]

Journerdism: Layar Tells CNN: Augmented Reality Will Be Second Only to Voice On Phones

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:26:23 -0500

"Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, co-founder of Augmented Reality browser company Layar, was interviewed by CNN today and took the opportunity to claim that AR on phones is going to be so big in the future that only voice will be more popular." [...]

Journerdism: Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:10:39 -0500

"For months (years?) Rupert Murdoch has been waving his jowls around and shouting that Google is stealing from him by not paying to index his material. And all along, we've been saying, "Pffft, right. If you don't like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index [...]

Journerdism: Curation: A Dead Idea Of Dead Thinking

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:37:12 -0500

Curation backlash! (Via Joe Murphy) [...]

loose wire blog: SideWikis Wish Fulfilment

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:16:28 -0500

A piece in today’s Guardian attracted my attention--“SideWiki Changes Everything”—as I thought, perhaps, it might shed new light on Google’s browser sidebar that allows anyone to add comments to a website whether or not the website owner wants them to. The piece calls the evolution of SideWiki a “seminal [...]

loose wire blog: Is Microsoft Censoring Windows 7 Tweets?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:35:44 -0500

Intrigued to see that Microsoft has turned a page of its website over to “What people are saying about Windows 7”:

The page is designed a bit like twittefall: a cascade of seeminlgy “live” tweets (their dates and [...]

Smart Mobs: Volunteers needed: getting ready for hurricane relief

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:09:58 -0500

Andy Carvin says, in regard to a potential emergent collective disaster response:

So it looks like we’re going to get a hurricane after all this season. Ida is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Alabama/Florida border late Monday or early Tuesday. I’ve already started updating the [...]

Alec Saunders .LOG: For Rent: Cancun Holiday Villa

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:17:00 -0500

Since the late 90’s, my family has owned spring timeshare weeks in Cancun. We’re heading to the west coast next summer for a family reunion and to see friends from our days living there. As a consequence, we won’t be spending our usual weeks in Mexico during March.

Today I’ve [...]

Martin Stabe: Sunday Times: Libel threat to force US papers out of Britain

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:14:24 -0500

...And not just in print: "The National Enquirer, based in Miami, blocked British readers after it was successfully sued in London by Cameron Diaz, the Hollywood actress. Her lawyers showed that an article she deemed defamatory had been viewed 279 times by British internet users. ... Some of the most [...]

Zero Percent Idle: “Aren’t you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you?”

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:28 -0500

Elizabeth Gilbert at TED, talking about the fear that lingers behind the nagging need to write, the curious nature of genius and what happens when you keep showing up to do your job.

Bonus points for using Tom Waits as a positive role model.

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Zero Percent Idle: NaNoWriMo: Back on the horse

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0500

After taking a few days off post-TEDx, I’m back on-course, at 13, 339 words. And today is not yet over (though the finale of Mad Men looms, with a giant time-sucking sound.)

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mathewingram.com/work: Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:53:09 -0500

Number of comments: 5

Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington hired him. But I think his [...]

Journerdism: Why the mainstream media is dying

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:35:56 -0500

"And to all those people who go around wringing their hands and saying what are we going to do when the "real newspapers" all die and we have to get our news from Gawker and HuffPo and TechCrunch? Friends, I think we're going to be just fine. Part of it" [...]

Smart Mobs: New York City weekend of web mobs

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:33:59 -0500

Next weekend I will be attending two conferences in New York City. One of them is WordCampNYC which is a major WordPress event. It has top guys from the tech and design crowds who have brought this open source software to global leadership. There will [...]

Journerdism: Newspapers and social media sites. What works?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:26:01 -0500

"The article comes to the conclusion that each individual newspaper needs to figure out the networking sites that work best for it. Depending on things such as location, circulation, subject-specific media, and relevance, different newspapers require different sites to increase their traffic. Stories about technology or quirky subjects more easily" [...]