Comments on: Your newspaper isn’t MySpace. Should it be? http://ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/ The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Interactivity: They’re just people http://ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/comment-page-1/#comment-4223 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Interactivity: They’re just people Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:43:42 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/#comment-4223 [...] I’ve just seen a flurry of posts from people trying to give advice to flummoxed media types. See Ryan Sholin, my former and present colleague Kevin Anderson, and Mark Potts. [...] [...] I’ve just seen a flurry of posts from people trying to give advice to flummoxed media types. See Ryan Sholin, my former and present colleague Kevin Anderson, and Mark Potts. [...]

]]> By: Lucas http://ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/comment-page-1/#comment-4220 Lucas Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:54:54 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/#comment-4220 Just to be clear, I don't subscribe to the idea that blogs couldn't exist without the mainstream media feeding them with information. Maybe for some blogs that would be true, but not for blogs such as ours, for example. What I'm trying to say is merely that media folks shouldn't get so down on ourselves for not inventing MySpace for newspapers before MySpace did it for everyone else. Sure, newspapers could have invented MySpace. Sites such as Bakotopia are proof it actually can be done. And we could have done a lot of other things. YouTube, CraigsList, etc. These ideas are within our skill set. But they're not at the core of what makes our skill set so successful. We're good at communicating information via other people's social networks. We do this by creating great journalism that people just have to talk about. Focus on how to benefit from emerging social networks and how to create great journalism that spreads throughout those networks. It's the proverbial "low-hanging fruit." Why aren't news stories exploding on YouTube every day? Because we're not even trying. Just to be clear, I don’t subscribe to the idea that blogs couldn’t exist without the mainstream media feeding them with information. Maybe for some blogs that would be true, but not for blogs such as ours, for example.

What I’m trying to say is merely that media folks shouldn’t get so down on ourselves for not inventing MySpace for newspapers before MySpace did it for everyone else.

Sure, newspapers could have invented MySpace. Sites such as Bakotopia are proof it actually can be done. And we could have done a lot of other things. YouTube, CraigsList, etc. These ideas are within our skill set.

But they’re not at the core of what makes our skill set so successful. We’re good at communicating information via other people’s social networks. We do this by creating great journalism that people just have to talk about.

Focus on how to benefit from emerging social networks and how to create great journalism that spreads throughout those networks. It’s the proverbial “low-hanging fruit.”

Why aren’t news stories exploding on YouTube every day? Because we’re not even trying.

]]> By: Martin Stabe » links for 2006-12-19 http://ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/comment-page-1/#comment-4219 Martin Stabe » links for 2006-12-19 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:26:59 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2006/12/18/your-newspaper-isnt-myspace-should-it-be/#comment-4219 [...] Invisible Inkling: Your newspaper isn’t MySpace. Should it be? “What does a member of a newspaper-hosted social networking site want? Attention? Discussion? A feeling of community? A sense of ownership?” (tags: newspapers online socialnetworks community journalism) [...] [...] Invisible Inkling: Your newspaper isn’t MySpace. Should it be? “What does a member of a newspaper-hosted social networking site want? Attention? Discussion? A feeling of community? A sense of ownership?” (tags: newspapers online socialnetworks community journalism) [...]

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