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Day: May 13, 2011

  • Social media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch

    Social media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch: An expected outcome of courtroom tweeting. Would love to see coverage of the Supreme Court along these lines, with NPR’s Nina Totenberg narrating a daily video wrap-up consisting of tweeted sketches and motion graphic quotes.

  • “Cleaning up the comment cesspool”

    Cleaning up the comment cesspool: Ventura County Star editor Joe Howry has penned what is either the most eloquent column a newspaper has ever published on the problem of comment threads and trolls — or the most cliché-laden — or possibly, both. If you can get past that, it’s an interesting approach they’re taking: They…

  • Beyond Comment Threads

    Beyond Comment Threads: A Mozilla journalism challenge on building better community conversations around the news. So far, nothing terrifyingly new. Paragraph-level commenting, Slashdot-style threading, collapsing, and moderation. And if I could figure out how to register for the site, with or without OpenID, I might be able to comment on the entries. (via PBS IdeaLab)