April 2009
2 posts
Spot-On: Chris Nolan: Dowd's Lens, Bronstein's... →
Joel Kramer: Lessons I’ve learned after a year... →
March 2009
7 posts
“Here’s a common question I get from startups, especially in the early...”
– Lessons Learned: Don’t launch
“In one respect, this is working. Our advertisers pay $15 or more per thousand...”
– Joel Kramer: Lessons I’ve learned after a year running MinnPost » Nieman Journalism Lab
“Those who want to leave a comment must register, and their full real names are...”
– Joel Kramer: Lessons I’ve learned after a year running MinnPost » Nieman Journalism Lab
“I answer their questions and ask a few of my own. My number one question: Do you...”
– Joel Kramer: Lessons I’ve learned after a year running MinnPost » Nieman Journalism Lab
Joel Kramer: Lessons I’ve learned after a year... →
New West: A Simple Model for Online Journalism →
One Reporter Takes on the Island of Alameda →
February 2009
8 posts
“Newsrooms no longer have the luxury of wasting resources on non-stories — on...”
– Why not writing a story is innovation - Publishing 2.0
Wikis aren't tools for collaboration
I’m still struggling with the application of wikis in news and information. Clearly, Wikipedia is an astonishing feat, but most wikis seem broken, empty, and disorganized.
Until a few weeks ago, this site was a wiki that was overrun with spam. I’m still working to repair my status with Google.
One core problem with wikis is that they don’t allow posters to own what they...
“Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education....”
– Wiki what? Wiki who? Wiki why? - Invisible Inkling
“Ryan Sholin of ReportingOn (a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner) and Brad Flora...”
– Should local news sites use wikis? | Knight Pulse
“We have a number of ideas for sustaining our project beyond a dependency on...”
– Looking toward EveryBlock’s future | Holovaty.com
News Mixer has a lot of potential for diy...
MediaShift Idea Lab . Options for News Mixer: Launch a Site, Use the Code or Just Be Inspired | PBS
Pajamas Media hits the wall
Bad news for anyone who thought that small, general-purpose blog nets were a good idea. Probably bad news for bigger news/politics blogs
Not necessarily a notice of doom for those of us who are more focused and on a first-name basis with our advertisers.
“YEAH, the PJM ad-network model isn’t working. I don’t have much to do with the...”
– Instapundit » Blog Archive » YEAH, the PJM ad-network model isn’t working. I don’t have much to do with the PJM business side, b…
January 2009
12 posts
Nonprofit journalism, not newspapers
I’ve collected quotes from this week’s hot topic: taking newspapers nonprofit.
In my Forrester blog, I say that Matt Yglesias has the right idea, fund newsgathering, not newspapers. Although I’m not sure I’d pick the same institutions he would to gather the news.
“You can secure the First Amendment for a generation at a time of historical...”
– Nonprofit Newspapers: Think Tank: Online Only: The New Yorker
“Journalists, like most people, would like things in the future to resemble...”
– The Trouble with Non-Profit Journalism | New West Blog | New West Network
“Anybody got $114 billion? That’s what it might cost to create an endowment large...”
– Endowing every U.S. newspaper: $114 billion. Innovation: Priceless. » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
“By endowing our most valued sources of news we would free them from the...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - News You Can Endow - NYTimes.com
“If a billionaire was asking me whether investing charitable giving in the media...”
– Matthew Yglesias » Home Page
“The idea of a reporter selling ads on his or her website remains a troubling one...”
– The ethical journalist’s guide to selling ads on a website: Part one
Thanks, Rush
If it hadn’t been for Rush Limbaugh’s whining about being called out by President Obama, I might not have heard of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
I can think of a couple of local applications for these rules. And I owe it all to Rush. Megadittoes!
Timeline of newspaper shutdowns, and the...
Steve Yelvington’s Timeline of newspaper edition shutdowns is excellent, helpful, and introduced me to a really cool timeline-building tool that I can’t wait to try out.
It’s a far cry from some of the HTML timelines I’ve been building lately.
It also brings home how the quality of our tools is increasing at an accelerating rate as clever programmers build on the good...
“What we haven’t seen is really the great interaction locally. So we...”
– What is the future of public media stations? | Knight Pulse
After you take public "broadcasters" online,...
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the impact of online on public “broadcasting”. How much of what they do should simply be moved online? Is public broadcasting (and cablecasting) already obsolete? With commercial cable networks taking the big audience shows and the web taking the highly-segmented stuff they never did a good job of covering, is there anything left...
“With the fate of the Post-Intelligencer seemingly sealed at least as a...”
– The Peoria plan for saving local dailies