/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us globalkev@gmail.com 2008-08-07T17:48:52+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/08/07/become_a_better_citizen_journalist.php Andy Dickinson has posted this thought-provoking illustration on his blog. To sum up the illustration: The community feels used. The audience feels ignored, but the journalist? "I got what I needed." Andy promises more thoughts soon, but the post alone... 73490@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-08-07T17:48:52+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/29/nprs_on_the_media_and_comments_on_comments.php As I’ve mentioned before, National Public Radio’s (US) On the Media is part of my weekly podcast diet. It was an interesting look at three different views on internet comments on articles and radio programmes. Host Bob Garfield interviewed... 73470@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2008-07-29T11:20:19+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/28/should_journalism_degrees_still_prepare_students_for_a_news_industry_that_doesnt_want_them.php Paul Bradshaw invited me on Twitter to answer this question on Seesmic recently, and Paul reported on the responses on his blog. He asked the question in light of a punishing wave of redundancies, many in US newspapers, and... 73472@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Journalism 2008-07-28T20:10:39+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/28/john_zhus_top_tips_for_encouraging_cultural_change.php After I responded to John Zhu's post about battles lines in the recent 'curmudgeons' versus young journalists flap, John left several thoughtful comments. John said in his first comment: I've found that the only way to defeat the resistance... 73471@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Innovation 2008-07-28T19:39:18+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/24/local_can_work_complete_with_facts_and_figures.php In the recent round of virtual mud-slinging in the 'curmudgeons' versus digital journalists, one of the arguments by way of assertion is that hyper-local doesn't work. It is, of course, a reductionist argument, lumping together a wide range of strategies.... 73465@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-07-24T15:50:24+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/23/required_reading_for_public_media_executives_and_programme_makers.php I have followed the trajectory of (US) National Public Radio's Bryant Park Project because they were experimenting with so many social media tools and ideas, and more than that, they seemed to have grokked the 'social' in social media. Their... 73461@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-07-23T14:57:35+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/21/name_calling_isnt_going_to_get_us_anywhere.php The discussion on how to save newspapers - or I would say newspaper-style reporting regardless of the platform - is getting bogged down in mutual recriminations and some good old-fashioned name-calling. Journalists are blaming management, saying that 'they' didn't... 73451@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Innovation 2008-07-21T10:16:02+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/20/what_has_prevented_newspapers_from_being_successful_in_the_digital_age.php In the daily flood of links that stream by me via RSS or Twitter, I noticed a post by Mark Schaver, the computer-assisted reporting director of the Louisville Kentucky Courier-Journal, in which he challenged the view of newspaper executives... 73446@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ History 2008-07-20T10:38:55+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/17/journalism_that_matters_a_passion_for_place_video.php Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project dropped me a note about this. What motivates people to launch a local online news community -- a "placeblog" and what are their challenges, their successes, the opportunities, vision and passion which... 73447@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2008-07-17T19:24:42+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/14/imagining_the_future_of_newspapers_but_only_every_other_week.php The Newspaper Association of America's Imagining the Future of Newspapers blog is indicative of too many mainstream media blogs, and sadly, I'm with Jeff that it's hardly surprising. When I first started off in online journalism, one of the... 73437@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-07-14T14:04:21+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/07/transitions_online_grzegorz_piechota_gazeta_wyborcza.php Gazeta Wyborcza is a national daily newspaper in Poland. First issue published in 1989, had 8 pages and was printed in black and white. Started by the Solidarity movement that discussed with the Communists how to transition to a democracy.... 73424@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Conferences 2008-07-07T14:10:23+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/05/talking_social_media_with_peter_shankman.php Find more videos like this on PROpenMic Michael O'Connor Clarke, a long-time friend of Suw who I only recently had the pleasure of meeting, provided a virtual introduction to Peter Shankman. Peter was on a whirlwind trip to London... 73422@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Journalism 2008-07-05T17:09:32+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/01/newsknitter_knitting_together_the_daily_news_agenda.php Ebru Kurbak / Mahir M. Yavuz: Newsknitter It's another day where I'm looking for ways to visualise huge bits of information for a project that I'm working on, and I stumbled upon the Newsknitter project. News Knitter is a... 73409@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-07-01T16:44:34+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/07/01/first_fruitful_seminar_a_success_three_more_in_the_pipeline.php I'm delighted to say that the first Fruitful Seminar on the adoption of social media in enterprise, Making Social Tools Ubiquitous, last Friday was a bit of a hit! I had a fabulous time, and I got some great feedback... 73405@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Adoption 2008-07-01T12:04:58+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/06/12/information_is_only_scarce_if_you_live_in_a_bubble.php Just back from a week with Suw and our families at my home in the US, and I've had some space and time to think about things in a more considered way that I usually have time to in London.... 73363@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-06-12T13:49:35+00:00