Online Journalism Blog: Is community moderation etc. journalism? Another ice cream question
Friday, 1 April 2011, 13:40
"The point of community management/SEO/social media optimisation etc. from a journalist’s point of view is that it should seek to involve readers as early as possible, and so improve the editorial product while it is produced. Not only that but …
CJR: Interactivity on a Budget
Friday, 5 November 2010, 18:59
"How several smaller newsrooms dealt with election data. … It would be unfair, though, to only focus on heavy-hitting sites that have dedicated interactive staff for such time-consuming projects. Across the country, smaller-circulation newspapers had to make the same decisions about how to visualize the data coming in on Election Night, but they had to make those decisions with far fewer resources. I believe the Times newsroom has at least two dozen people working full time on interactive projects; many smaller papers might be lucky to have a handful of people who know Flash."
Econsultancy: The real problem with magazine iPad apps
Monday, 11 October 2010, 10:20
"Publishers shouldn't just assume that the 'interactivity' techies want to see is the 'interactivity' consumers in their target markets really want and most importantly, value. Most internet users don't comment on articles, and of those signed up for Twitter, most don't tweet. From this perspective, it's quite presumptuous to assume that making iPad apps more social will help publishers sell more downloads of them."
Online Journalism Blog: Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 1: The revolution that never happened
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 12:13
Steen Steensen: "Why … is online journalism still mostly all about producing written text to a mass audience? Why is use of multimedia, hypertext and interactivity still so rare?… Is it only because online newsrooms don’t have the resources they need to be innovative? Or are there other reasons?"
One Man and His Blog: On The Web, Social Media is Just Media
Monday, 12 October 2009, 20:06
Adam Tinworth: "It's only our blinkers from working in traditional media that allow us to see the web this way, as a social bit and a traditional publishing bit, but it's a fallacy. On the web, social media is media. The ability to share, comment, discuss and annotate to fundamental to the way publishing is developing on the internet, and we have to treat the new medium as what it is, not what some of us wish it was. … [From] its earliest days, the internet was a social medium: usenet, irc, BBSes, e-mail discussion lists and forums were all early ways of socialising the internet experience. We in the traditional media took a detour into shovelware websites that emulated our print products."
ReadWriteWeb: Full Harper’s Index Now Searchable Online
Monday, 16 February 2009, 08:44
A great interactive re-imagining of a classic magazine feature celebrating its 25th anniversary: all 12,058 lines of the Harper's Index have been published online in a searchable form, with a permalink and tool for posting to Twitter for each line.
Online Journalism Blog: Reasons not to ignore comments #2: The Daily Mail and Julie Moult
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 22:27
Paul Bradshaw puts the Julie Moult story into context: "The Bloggerheads blogger (’Manic’), frustrated by [the Daily Mail story's] inaccuracies, posted a comment on the story correcting it. Because that’s what comments are for, right? Apparently not. The comment was not published. So Manic took things up a notch."
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 12:54
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Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."
Saturday, 17 May 2008, 12:38
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Douglas Adams: "During [the twentieth] century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television."
Sunday, 11 May 2008, 06:07
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"The Latin [American] papers were reacting to the Web, too — but they seem to see their local efforts as ways to imitate the Web’s interactivity and its encouragement of self-expression."
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 09:23
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"Sketch Pad is a cool New York Times column that asks architects or designers to create a vision of what an apartment, house, loft or shack now for sale might look like in order to ‘help real estate shoppers learn to see past ugly paint, too-small kitchen
Saturday, 19 April 2008, 10:39
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Nice chart showing Google’s ad revenue relative to other media sectors. "Only regional newspapers (forecast to be worth £2.33bn in 2008 and the commerical TV sector (£3.5bn…) still lie ahead."
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 17:55
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"A study of blogs and audience engagement during the week before the fall 2006 elections found that most newspaper staff-produced blogs contained a small number of postings, failed to create much interaction between the blogger and the audience and attrac
Saturday, 23 February 2008, 14:38
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"Mainstream media is often chided for not being hip with the latest in design technology. The New York Times, having started in 1851, is about as mainstream as you can get. Yet, in my opinion, they are a leader in creating interactive modules to accompany
