These are the blog posts and articles people were clicking on off my reading list from July 2008.
- Computational Journalism: “Readers take these sort of technologies for granted in their daily Web experience, and it’s vital that newspaper sites break out of the traditional words/photo/graphics paradigm to start thinking in similar ways and adopting computational journalism. You can do that by making your smart programmers equal partners in thinking about how news should be covered on a daily basis. They’re going to have ideas you never even dreamed of. And that’s a good thing.”
- 4 Steps to Create A Modern News Story: “The database-driven Web has ushered in a new form of storytelling, one that has several components to it and involves something more than any one person — or one team — could ever hope to do.”
- 17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make
- Finally: the answer to hyper-local coverage
- MediaShift Idea Lab . Cheap, But Not Free: “So there’s a wealth of social benefits that come along with citizen journalism. And it’s hard work. And yes, it’s cheaper than paying reporters. But not as cheap as you thought.”
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