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 […]
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, […]
Last month I was talking with a co-worker, talking about what was going on with newspaper-dot-coms these days. This phrase slipped out, and I think it makes sense. Newspapers, magazines, local television and radio news operations are bleeding information. Every stroke of the shovel they make from legacy distribution methods to the web bleeds more […]
This list is aimed at online newspapers and the newsrooms that love them.
“Local” means it matters. Take advantage of it.
Newspapers harness and print tons of information. Do more with it.
There’s an amazing amount of information available in the community. It’s time to harness it, and then reward the community for participating.
If you’re not interacting with […]
Number 5 on a list of predictions from a iA, a multinational information architecture firm (and makers of this interesting 2007 interweb map): Newspapers will have to open up.
This is what they write:
What we experienced in 2006 was just a first round in wild independent journalism. The newspaper will learn to integrate their readers and […]
Daylife.com is a new news aggregator … big whoop, right? Well, there’s something worth looking at here, and it’s how they organize their information. Instead of a bunch of lists of stories on their top stories index, they publish:
A quote from some newsmaker,
A photo-thumbnail index of the top people in the news,
A photo-thumbnail index of […]
What’s local? This is a fundamental question, and the NAA’s Digital Edge blog asked it recently:
Local can’t be universally defined by mileage — that’s obvious. To a person living in the suburban sprawl outside Los Angeles, a business 20 miles away could be “local.” But to a resident of Brooklyn, a “local” business might be […]
All-about-the-words journalism-blog Gangrey sparked a thread with its recent post, New Rules:
If you got to blow up your newspaper, effectively immediately, meaning even the potential elimination of the traditional, nuts-and-bolts beats – cops, city hall, school board – and if you then got to rethink completely how we harvest stories …
What would the “beats” be?
Great […]
We’re talking about progress on the internet? The product newspapers offer up online these days could barely be described as marginally better than the product three years ago. Steve Outing gives newspapers a B-, which is generous enough to keep newspaper-dot-coms thinking maybe if they do blogs better and new video each day then they’ll […]
Last night I was talking with my disillusioned journalist friend Aidan about the staff cuts that just hit a couple of newspapers, and how many older reporters left, and how much more than just bodies the newspapers lost. With all these newspaper buy-outs, lay-offs and walk-outs goes massive amounts of institutional knowledge.
It doesn’t have to […]