The Atlantic: Why I Blog
Saturday, 18 October 2008, 10:44
Essential reading on writing online from Andrew Sullivan: "Writing in this new form is a collective enterprise as much as it is an individual one—and the connections between bloggers are as important as the content on the blogs. The links not only drive conversation, they drive readers. The more you link, the more others will link to you, and the more traffic and readers you will get. The zero-sum game of old media—in which Time benefits from Newsweek’s decline and vice versa—becomes win-win."
Roy Greenslade: why I shout about newsprint’s demise
Friday, 10 October 2008, 14:30
Here, here, Prof Greenslade: "[L]oyalty to a product, even when it is as vitally important to society as a paper, is irrational. The paper itself is not the thing to worry about. It is the journalistic act that counts."
One Man and His Blog: Digital Journalism: The Time For Talk Is Done
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 21:08
Adam Tinowrth: "The danger we're in right now is that many of the people who are most conversant with these tools, and who are the biggest evangelists, for them end up getting pulled away from the reporting positions into central development functions. They stop doing, and start encouraging others to do. But I think we need more leading by example."
Headlines and Deadlines: The Lifecycle of a News Story
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 17:47
In a blog post that should be essential reading, Alison Gow looks at how online journalism techniques have changed from "Web 1.0" practices to what is potentially possible in the "Web 2.0" era, even if this is not always happening in practice.
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: Blogging and journalism: it’s a graph, not a line
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 08:25
The distinction between 'blogging' and 'journalism' is "not a line, it’s a classic four-quadrant graph. There’s an X axis from “not blogging at all” to “blogging all the time,” and there’s a Y axis from, say, 'writes the equivalent of a private diary' to 'writes exclusively about public affairs.'"
Friday, 20 June 2008, 15:04
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Vin Crosbie: "Mass Media are wonderful at satisfying the very few common interests. Those practices are so-so at satisfying group interests … But they are frankly lousy at satisfying very specific interests."
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 18:56
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"There still seems to be an assumption amongst ‘proper’ journalists that anyone who blogs is doing so because they want to be a journalist. This is demonstrably untrue."
Thursday, 10 April 2008, 05:39
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Jack Lail’s reading list for journalism students.
Saturday, 23 February 2008, 09:05
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Readship is shifting online, yet online operations are short of staff and tacked on to the print product; newspaper blogs provide niche audiences, but not niche micro-advertising opportunities.
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:48
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Wow. Print-and-online CMS built on in Drupal and integrated with InDesign via linked XML.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 08:52
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Colin Mulvany: "I have been a producer of web content for years on a creaky CMS that only partially takes advantage of the Web 2.0 tools available on any WordPress blog. I just didn’t see the big picture of why this is important for all of us in the new
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 10:05
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"35 percent of all online teen girls blog, while only 20 percent of online teen boys do so … The Internet for them is much less about consuming content than it is about interpersonal communications. … BlufftonToday.com, is dominated by females."
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 18:26
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The fixed mindset says, “there aren’t enough hours in the day for me to put out this print paper and update online.” The growth mindset says, “what can I do differently to work more efficiently so I can focus on the web?”
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 08:50
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Unlike a traditional, centralised online publication, Glam is a distributed network of its own and independent sites.
