Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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Mark Potts writes: "Back in the earliest days of planning The Washington Post's online strategy, 15-plus years ago, we talked a lot about our intentions to "be promiscuous"–placing as many bets as possible on as many different technologies and strategies as we could. " He echoed something that I often say about my own reading habits: Voracious and promiscuous. I'm interested in information not egos, and I'll go wherever I need to go to find the information I want. And publishers need to wake up to this fact before it's too late.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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Suw: Really neat app that allows multiple authors to co-edit a document in real time. Does away completely with the need for SubEthaEdit. Excellent stuff!
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DocumentCloud could "vastly improve document-based journalism". But do ProPublica and the New York Times deserve a $1m of Knight News Challenge money to build it?
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Rupert Murdoch says: "I see the same thing every day. Instead of finding stories that are relevant to their readers' lives, papers run stories reflecting their own interests. Instead of writing for their audience, they are writing for their fellow journalists. And instead of commissioning stories that will gain them readers, some editors commission stories whose sole purpose is the quest for a prize."
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
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Kevin: Five Ws for Web 2.0 or social media journalism from the Obama campaign
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"In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Immelt, GE chief executive, said the company had the resources to capitalise on bargains as it wades through the downturn."
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Andy Dickinson asks why people listen to Michael Rosenblum. I agree with Michael's main point that traditional TV newsgathering is too expensive and too heavy. I also agree with him that I see lightweight, digital journalism from both a 'pure journalism' view but also an economic view. Why aren't more people listening? Read the comments.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
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Jeff Jarvis responds to Adrian Monck and Roy Greenslade who say that journalists are blameless in the decline of print journalists. I think the key lines from Jeff are these: "My purpose in rebutting Farhi, Greenslade and Monck is not to flagellate journalists but to empower them. To take responsibility for the fall of journalism is to take responsibility for its fate. Who'll try to save it if not journalists?"
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Craig Stolz condences an online discussion amongst journalists and Jeff Jarvis about the death of journalism, or more precisely the current woes of print journalism into six Twitter-size summaries. Jeff responds saying that blame doesn't matter, but responsibility does. I think the key take away is that journalists aren't powerless in this. They can change. They can take their own futures into their hands, but the sad thing is that many journalists have put more energy into defending the past rather than preparing for the future.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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Jeff Jarvis says: "I’m still shaking my head over the American Press Institute’s announcement of a closed-door, invitation-only emergency meeting of only CEO-level newspaper executives to, in the words of E&P “ponder ways to revive the newspaper business.” This is the last thing the newspaper industry needs."
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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So how did this unlikeliest of candidates do it? How did Obama utilize radically asymmetrical competition to shatter Washington's toxic, bitter 20th century status quo? The most critical part of the story is the organization Obama built.
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"Online?!? This is going to be printed in the newspaper. I'm a proper news journalist," says Adam Smith of the Birmingham Mail. He may just be cutting and pasting from the BBC News website, by his own admission, but he claims to have wrapped his class cut and paste job in "some award-winning prose". Tip of the hat to Adam Tinworth for this truly shocking bit of video.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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The Politics focused newspaper and website, Politico in Washington DC, expected it to take five years to reach profitability. It took only two. I'l be curious to see what happens after the 2008 presidential election.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Scripps looks to targeted advertising and more aggressive sales for online ads to local businesses. "Rusty Coats is so confident about the strategy that he projects that Scripps Web sites will sell enough ads to support the staff and costs of the print and online newsrooms by 2012, without staff cuts."
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