links for 2007-02-21

Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 12:23

• cityofsound: Monocle, week one
  Monocle.com will focus on — get this — “bespoke content creation”. Dan Hill: “I don’t feel the world needs five new section editors’ blogs, say, or another academically interesting but ultimately pointless mashup of feeds.”
  (tags: magazines monocle online journalism blogs mashups video)
• Editor & Publisher: Iraqi Correspondents, Blogging for McClatchy, Provide Brutal Insight
  “The McClatchy bureau in Baghdad — from which some of the best reporting on the war (going back to its Knight Ridder days) has emerged — launched a blog featuring dispatches by some of its native-born correspondents. Their first names are deleted for se
  (tags: iraq bloggers journalism)
• Recovering Journalist: Paid Content, Part 2
  ESPN.com provides “a model for how media sites can switch customers from free to paid. Other media and Web companies should be looking hard at the ESPN model.”
  (tags: online publishing paidcontent espn wsj nytimes)
• Twitter / defamer
  Celebrity gossip blog Defamer is using Twitter to report the Oscars.
  (tags: twitter blogs oscars)
• Editor & Publisher: Cartoonist’s Unpublished Drawings Get a Blog of Their Own
  The Kansas City Star is running a web site that publishes its cartoonist’s rejected and unpublished work.
  (tags: journalism cartoons online newspapers blogs)

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