virtualeconomics: A citizen journalism model that really breaks news?
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 14:33
"London-based citizen journalism start-up Blottr … led the news agenda for much of Monday by breaking the day's major UK news story. … First publishing a few minutes after 10am, Blottr broke the news of a bomb alert in London and over the…
virtualeconomics: A citizen journalism model that really breaks news?
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 14:33
"London-based citizen journalism start-up Blottr … led the news agenda for much of Monday by breaking the day's major UK news story. … First publishing a few minutes after 10am, Blottr broke the news of a bomb alert in London and over the…
BuzzMachine: Helping news be news
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 23:38
"Google News has just open-sourced its code to create what it calls Living Stories. What this really is, I think, is Google’s attempt to take editors to school on content presentation in our new world. The article, I’ve argued, is outmoded as the building block of news. The new atomic unit(s) of journalism needs to reflect the transition of news from a product to a process."
ComputerWorld: Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place
Friday, 9 October 2009, 14:39
"Wikileaks … is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an 'upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks' form onto their Web sites."
WSJ: Digits: Google’s Mayer To Dispense Advice to Newspapers At Senate Hearing
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 23:01
"Google believes, and has been arguing behind the scenes to some major newspaper publishers, that instead of newspapers publishing multiple articles on the same topic throughout the day, they ought to combine the entries under a permanent Web address. Doing so, Google argues, can help publishers–which often complain that their journalism is getting buried amid other less serious content–increase the authoritativeness of their articles and surface higher in Google search results."
Subs’ Standards: Let’s create a universal style guide for web subs
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 16:24
Subs' Standards takes my call for help with an online style guide a step further, calling for "a wiki … encompassing a central place to house preferred search terms across a multitude of topics." A very good idea.
