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New at IdeaLab: The People Formerly Known as the Audience need a new name

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? … Continue reading

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Are your readers a community?

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 … Continue reading

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Reader poll redux: Who are you?

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 … Continue reading

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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? Continue reading

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Enough handwringing, let’s get down to business

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 … Continue reading

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