I’ve seen it countless times: Reporter wants to help out online. Reporter gets the okay to start blogging. Reporter blogs for a few weeks. Without any comments, or any idea that anybody’s really reading, reporter quits the blog.
Or, there’s video. Or audio. Reporter shoots video, hands it off to online team. Neither online team or […]
Okay, I know September was a pretty dead month, and that’s what these link-posts are for: to maintain some life on this blog until the next post strikes me.
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in September (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in August (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
Topix is not necessarily your friend: “Publishers get quite worked up about Google and Yahoo “stealing” their news, but for the most part, and […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in July (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
Best. Journalism Quotes. Ever.
Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks?: “What’s becoming clear is that blogs are now the organizing principle for newspapers’ original online […]
I added a category to JoeThink just now, “Cool Jobs,” spurred by this posting from www.ThisAmericanLife.org. It’s not an awesome gig, but they tell great stories and you can work it from home.
We’re looking for someone to run ThisAmericanLife.org along with other aspects of our web presence, including our MySpace and Facebook profiles. It’s […]
Backfence, the hyperlocal startup that couldn’t, is closing its doors. Some newspapers continue testing the interactive online-community waters. What’s the big picture here? “Action.” The action-oriented internet. One thing the internet does well is make previously difficult actions much easier. Newspaper-dot-coms haven’t quite clued into this, which is why articles are still the primary way […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in June (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
The Elements of Interactivity: lines and relationships: “Nineteenth-century mathematicians discovered to their discomfort that as the conceptual machinery of mathematics became more precise, it […]
Thought: There’s information, and there are filters for that information. Online newspapers have focused on what new information they ought to publish online — it’s worth a harder look at what new filters can be created (like this or this).
On a tangent, yesterday I pitched three categories for the information we’re displaying on the Denver […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in May (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article) … there’s a four-way tie for the fifth slot, so all are included.
A billionaire’s guide to stopping “theft” of your online newspaper content… […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in April (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article):
Turns out it’s tough to make local work on the Web: “Whoever can get this thing right—there’s a lot of money there,” says Josh […]