Each time I see that last question I wrote I dislike it more. Out with bad ideas, in with new ones (and give the new ones a couple weeks until they’re allowed to be called bad).
This question aims at the idea that newspapers are in a unique place online. No other legacy medium publishes so […]
Newspapers use plenty of vendors to handle their online content. The Oregonian has started posting their photos on Flickr here.
Why is this notable? Because the O doesn’t get any ad money for the photos they post.
What might be the point of this? It’s another way to draw in an audience that wouldn’t otherwise […]
Saw this quote on the web last week. It’s the tagline from Microformatique, a blog / book about microformats. It makes sense for microformats, and it has use in the newspaper world as well.
In the face of all the challenges newspapers have, “silver bullet thinking” is attractive, and is responsible for a lot of […]
Heh, meant to do this a while ago… if you read Joe Think by RSS then you probably don’t know about the online news reading list I keep up. I use Furl.net for it, and one of the cool parts about Furl is it tells you how many clicks each link gets (side note: Google […]
Each day this new blog, Today’s Rock Stars, writes up the newspapers that use the rock star metaphor in their articles. Yesterday it was some Canadian and Stephen Hawking. “It’s a rare day with neither sports rock stars nor political rock stars” wrote the narrator, Matt Gill.
This is a goofy way to use newspaper content […]
A good story sits the reader down, shares some event, and from the ideas inside that event creates something inside the reader. Or listener. Or viewer.
Good storytelling invites participation. Participation happens in many ways, here are some of them:
Thoughts, feelings, actions. Memories, remembering old feelings, new perspective on old emotions. New emotions. Dance, draw, […]
There’s been a stream of posts this week about the “newsroom-programmer” connection. You could say it culminated today with Holovaty’s “work with me at the Washington Post” post. Then there’s Mark Glaser’s state-of-the-geek-in-the-newsroom post. Then there’s all the discussion around those posts.
In the spirit of inclusion, I’d like to invite folk in the Denver / […]