/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us globalkev@gmail.com 2008-07-05T17:09:32+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+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/2008/01/25/newspaper_burnout.php Romenesko points out a study from Ball State University pointing that more than a quarter of newspaper journalists plan to 'leave newspaper journalism'. One thing that should be particularly worrying is that the number wanting to leave the profession... 73056@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Journalism/PR 2008-01-25T17:33:27+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/08/23/new_new_uses_or_new_to_you.php A few weeks ago, I blogged some thoughts about innovation inspired by the close of The Economist's Project Red Stripe, to which Jeff Jarvis responded. Jeff's post was interesting, as were the comments, but one in particular from Malcolm Thomson... 72624@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Journalism 2007-08-23T21:19:35+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/08/05/wheres_your_innovation.php This is a post I've been meaning to write for ages, but Neil McIntosh's post about the closure of The Economist's skunk works, Project Red Stripe, has finally prodded me into action. Project Red Stripe was a small team of... 72557@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Media 2.0 2007-08-05T10:43:57+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/03/13/search_useless_for_blogs.php Interesting little piece from eMarketer about how people find the blogs they read. It's really no surprise to discover that 67% of respondents find blogs through links from other blogs, and 23% via recommendations, but I like the way they... 72121@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-03-13T22:08:46+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/11/01/is_flock_the_ultimate_blogging_tool_for_journalists_almost.php I first used Flock last year after meeting Chris Messina in Paris. He was working to get the word out about the read/write browser at the time. I really liked the idea, partially because it just makes sense as a... 68413@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2006-11-01T22:51:07+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/21/edelman_must_try_harder.php As you might or might not know, I've got a relationship with Edelman, the PR company. I know Richard Edelman, I've spoken to their clients about blogging, had meetings with them, and spoken at two of their events. I have... 67739@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Fuckwittery 2006-10-21T08:38:54+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/20/monaco_media_forum_quality_and_news.php I just finished listening to a panel discussion titled News 2.0 here at the Monaco Media Forum. It was depressing on a number of levels. There is a pressing question in the news business right now: What is the business... 67709@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Journalism/PR 2006-10-20T16:26:21+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/06/uk_aop_awards_and_sessions_i_didnt_blog_about.php I’m still recovering from the Association of Online Publishers awards bash on Wednesday night, but Mark Sweney at Guardian’s (yes, my new keepers) Organ Grinder blog has a roundup of the award winners. Host Jimmy Carr was baffled by one... 66862@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2006-10-06T15:16:42+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/04/uk_aop_ulrik_haagerup_leading_new_media_change.php This was the second time in a year that I've heard Ulrik speak, and it's a real treat. I first heard him talk at an IFRA convergence workshop last summer. His ideas are compelling, but his new media leadership... 66682@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Community 2006-10-04T15:02:52+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/04/aop_the_evolving_content_model.php Torin Douglas of the BBC moderated this panel. The panel: Rod Henwood, head of new business Channel 4 Zach Leonard, digital media publisher, Times MediaTim Weller, chief executive, Incisive Media Jim Scheinman, VP of business development and sales, Bebo... 66670@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2006-10-04T15:01:39+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/04/uk_aop_five_challenges_for_online_publishing.php I'm of at the UK Association of Online Publishers. The keynote is about how to compete in a new economy, giving by Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, so my boss's boss's boss, or some... 66669@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2006-10-04T14:59:51+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/10/01/our_second_podcast_pt_2_ibc_hammond_and_this_american_life.php Ok, it’s taken me a little longer than I had hoped to post up the second half of the podcast that Suw and I did last Sunday night. powered by ODEO Again, if you want to download the podcast directly,... 66452@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2006-10-01T21:33:25+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/09/27/our_second_podcast_pt_1_a_conference_roundup.php We recorded this on Sunday night, but I’ve really struggled with Odeo’s upload tool. In the end, I gave up, uploaded to the Internet Archive and just linked to it via Odeo. (Note: It does take a second or two... 66207@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2006-09-27T09:50:09+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/09/24/eurooscon_adrian_holovaty_journalism_via_computer_programming.php Journalism right now is broken. Several ways - celebrity focus, political bias, circulation declining consistently, stock prices dropping, craisglist taking away classifieds market. But that's not the issue. The issues is that newspapers throw away data. So if there was... 66044@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Conferences 2006-09-24T20:48:52+00:00