Over at IdeaLab, I’m continuing a conversation I started on Twitter a couple weeks ago that spilled over here as well.
What do you call your readers now that they’re participating actively in the creation and curation of unbundled media?
Do you call them a community?
Better yet, what makes an online “community” and how can local news [...]
All about audience
New at IdeaLab: The People Formerly Known as the Audience need a new name
July 21, 2009
Are your readers a community?
July 8, 2009
I asked my Twitter followers what they think of substituting the word “community” for “readers” and I’m getting lots of good responses, many of them negative.
Either I didn’t know “community” had much of a stigma, or I spent too long working with “community” newspapers to notice. Back then, it seemed like a great linguistic [...]
Reader poll redux: Who are you?
November 18, 2007
survey software – Take Our Poll
Let’s try this again, as the folks at PollDaddy say the lolcats have cleared out of the servers now.
Jump in and check a box to rough up some unscientific numbers on who is reading this blog.
Are you a pro journalist, a j-school student, a for-the-love-of-it blogger, a programmer, [...]
Enough handwringing, let’s get down to business
August 28, 2006
What’s the future of news? What does the audience want? What will the dead-trees edition be able to do about either?
Lately, it seems like these questions are brought up by newspaper editors and journalism educators fraught with worry over what will become of their medium and of their readership. (And the children! Won’t somebody please [...]
Mine, mine, it’s all mine!
I want to save my favorite stories, right here, at your newspaper.com. Because really, what’s the sense in Digging a story about my neighborhood?
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